Fürjes, Anna Csenge
No. 22
Voice type: Mezzo-soprano
Country: Hungary
Date of birth: 19 March, 1996
The mezzo-soprano commenced her vocal studies at the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music and the Szombathely School of the Arts, then continued as a student of Andrea Meláth and Éva Marton at the Liszt Academy from 2015. Among her outstanding achievements is Third Prize in the Fourth József Gregor National Singing Competition in 2014, First Prize in the Sixth National Secondary School Singing Competition organised by the Szent István Király School of Music in 2015 and the Zoltán Kodály Prize awarded by Kodály’s widow, Sarolta Péczely, at the Éva Andor Memorial Competition in 2018. In addition to Hungary, she has performed in Prague, St Petersburg and Mértola (Portugal). She won the Junior Prima Award in 2020 and will travel to Bayreuth as a Richard Wagner Society fellow in 2021. She has taken the stage at several opera exam performances at the Liszt Academy, she made her debut at the Hungarian State Opera house on 13 February 2020 as Laura Adorno in Ponchielli’s Gioconda, and she has appeared at the Erkel Theatre in Budapest on several occasions.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Es war ein König in Thule
Bizet: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle – Habanera from Carmen
Mascagni: Voi lo sapete, o mamma – Santuzza’s aria from Cavalleria rusticana
Semi-final
Saint-Saëns: Samson, recherchant ma présence – Dalila’s aria from Samson et Dalila
Cilea: Acerba voluttà – Princess de Bouillon’s aria from Adriana Lecouvreur
Final
Massenet: Werther! Werther!... Je vous écrit de ma petite chambre – Charlotte’s aria from Werther
Verdi: O don fatale – Princess Eboli’s aria from Don Carlo
Donizetti: Fia dunque vero... O mio Fernando – Leonora’s recitative and aria from La favorita