5th Éva Marton International Singing Competition / Gala concert Presented by Liszt Academy

The 5th Éva Marton International Singing Competition has come to an end, the jury and audience have each made their decision, and the winners of this year's event have been announced – a decision made based on more than 130 contestants, who had submitted their recordings to the preliminary round in spring 2022. Now back to our familiar rhythm, the Éva Marton International Singing Competition will continue to be organised by the Liszt Academy every two years, in even-numbered years. We are also returning to the tradition of holding our Gala Concert at the Hungarian State Opera. There the audience will have another chance to hear the most talented of all these young singers, whom they have come to know and love over the previous days. For the singers, a performance at the newly renovated grand Opera building will represent a significant step in their careers, much like the Liszt Academy has. With the celebrations thus in full swing, a curious public has begun to ask: when and where will we have a chance to see the winners of the 2022 Éva Marton Singing Competition again? 

Programme of the gala concert: 

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia – Overture

Liszt: Die Drei Zigeuner
Jolana Slavikova (mezzo-soprano)
Featuring: Tamás Kéry (piano)

Händel: Tornami a vagheggiar – Morgana’s aria from Alcina
Min Hanbyeol (soprano)

Mozart: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio – Sesto’s aria from La Clemenza di Tito
Linsey Coppens (mezzo-soprano)

Tchaikovsky: Vy mne pisali… Kogda by zhizn domashnim krugom – Onegin’s recitative and aria from Eugene Onegin
Dinmukhamed Koshkinbayev (baritone)

Puccini: Che gelida manina! – Rodolfo’s aria from La bohème
Park Jihoon (tenor)

INTERMISSION

Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve – Juliet’s waltz from Roméo et Juliette
Guldana Aldadossova (soprano)

Bizet: La fleur que tu m’avais jetée – Don José’s aria from Carmen
Wang Weilian (tenor)

R. Strauss: Ich bin euer Liebden sehr verbunden – Sophie’s aria from Der Rosenkavalier
Lee Seonwoo (soprano)

Puccini: Sola, perduta, abbandonata – Manon’s aria from Manon Lescaut
Natália Tuznik (soprano)

Verdi: Studia il passo, o mio figlio… Come dal ciel precipita – Banco’s recitative and aria from Macbeth
Jeong Inho (bass)

Verdi: Che mai vegg’io!... Infelice!... e tuo credevi – Silva’s recitative and aria from Ernani
Aleksei Kulagin (bass) 

Offenbach: Il était une fois à la cour d’Eisenach! – Hoffmann’s aria from Les contes d’Hoffmann
Andrei Danilov (tenor)

Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Balázs Kocsár