Zoltan Nagy

Baritone

Romanian baritone Zoltan Nagy started his international career as the youngest member of the Wiener Staatsoper. Recognized by opera critics for his strengths in both dramatic and comic roles, he is regularly invited to appear as a guest in many of Europe’s leading opera houses. Zoltan’s most sought after role is Escamillo (Bizet: Carmen), a role that he has played in over 12 productions, including in theaters such as Bilbao, the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Teatro Grande di Brescia, the Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona and the Teatro Sociale di Como, with the RTE Orchestra Dublin, the Romanian National Opera Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca the Shaanxi Grand Opera House in China and the Nuremberg State Theater. As a permanent guest soloist at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, Zoltan was invited to sing Guglielmo (Mozart: Così fan tutte), Silvio (Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci), the title role in Kodaly’s Hary Janos and Schaunard (Puccini: La Bohème). He also played the latter role at the Leipzig Opera, the Opera de Nice (with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra), the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp and the Ghent Opera.

Zoltan Nagy made his debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with the role of Count Almaviva (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro). He also made guest appearances as Haraschta (Jancek: Das schlaue Vüchlein) at the Hamburg State Opera, Dr. Falcon (Strauss: Die Fledermaus) at the Teatro Verdi Trieste, Calchas (Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide) in Athens, Schmied (Egk: Peer Gynt) at the Theater an der Wien, where he also sang at a gala concert with Edita Gruberova. Zoltan recently made his debut as Alberich (Wagner: Siegfried) at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, where he also performed Alberichsang in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. He sang Marcelloin of a new production of La Bohème at the Teatro Comunale di Sassari, portrayed the role of Dulcamarain of a new production of L’Elisir d’Amore at the Romanian National Opera and was invited to give master classes at the University of Xi’an (China). In summer 2019 he also made his role debut as Count Tomski (Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades) at the Heidenheim Opera Festival accompanied by the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He sings the role of Theseus in the live recording of the Essen Philharmonic by Bohuslav Martinus Ariane under the direction of Czech conductor Tomas Netopil, which was released on Supraphon in 2016.

Zoltan Nagy has worked with such conductors as Marco Armiliato, Pinchas Steinberg, Ulf Schirmer, Renato Palumbo, Fabio Luisi, Marc Minkowski, John Wilson, Alejo Pérez, Tomas Netopil, Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Leo Hussain and Marcus Bosch. Some of the directors with whom Zoltan has worked are: Peter Konwitschny, Damiano Michieletto, Inga Levant, Stefano Poda, Calixto Bieito Thorsten Fischer, Georges Delnon, Maurizio Scaparro and Immo Karaman. He has worked with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Robert Schumann Philharmonie, the RSO Vienna, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Zoltan studied at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in his hometown Cluj-Napoca with Professor Gheorghe Roşu. After graduation, he received a full scholarship to study with Professor Boris Bakow at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He has won prizes in various singing competitions, including the Romanian National Singing Competition, the Hariclea Darclee International Voice Competition and “Debut”, the European singing competition for operas in Germany. In 2012 Zoltan participated in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival and was then selected to sing in the production of Das Labyrinth.