Competitors passed through to the Preliminary

Megyimórecz, Ildikó

Megyimórecz, Ildikó

No. 30

Voice type: Soprano

Country: Hungary

Date of birth: 21 April, 1992

She was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1992. She studied opera under Éva Marton, earning a master’s degree with honours from the Liszt Academy in 2019. In the same year, she received a contract from the Hungarian State Opera. The soprano has attended master classes by Éva Marton, Magda Nádor, Mária Temesi, Sylvia Sass, Andrea Rost, István Andrejcsik and Nicholas Clapton. She has performed at the Bartók Memorial House, the Budapest Music Centre, both venues of the Hungarian State Opera, the Müpa Budapest, the Liszt Academy, the Pesti Vigadó, the National Theatre of Pécs, and collaborated with such famous musicians and orchestras as Tamás Érdi, Miklós Szenthelyi and the Hungarian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, János Kovács and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Éva Marton and Tamás Vásáry. She was a fellow of the Bayreuther Festspiele, where she attended Gwyneth Jones’s master class. She won second place at the International Contemporary Competition in 2015, she was awarded the special prize granted by the Hungarian Academy of Arts at the 3rd Éva Marton International Singing Competition in 2018, and she was a finalist at the Fanny Mendelssohn competition in Hamburg and received the Junior Prima Award in 2019.

In 2020, she performed at the New Year's Eve concert in Kaposvár City. In February she worked with the Miskolc Philharmonic, and then sang Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen at the Hungarian State Opera House's tour of Gyula, Veszprém and Pécs. In September she sang Salome in the Hungarian Opera House's Salome Cover project.

Competition Repertoire

Preliminary

Liszt: Die Loreley           

Mozart: Don Ottavio, son morta!... Or sai chi l’onore – Donna Anna’s recitative and aria from Don Giovanni

Cilea: Ecco: respiro appena... Io son l’umile ancella – Adriana Lecouvreur’s aria from Adriana Lecouvreur

Semi-final

Bellini: Eccomi in lieta vesta… Oh! quante volte – Giulietta’s recitative and aria from I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Gounod: Ah! je ris de me voir si belle – Marguerite’s Air des bijoux from Faust

Final

Catalani: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana – Wally’s aria from La Wally

Bellini: Casta Diva – Norma’s aria from Norma

Verdi: Mercé, dilette amiche – Elena’s aria from Les vêpres siciliennes