Nagy, Johanna

Voice type: Soprano

Country: Hungary

Date of birth: 11 May, 1992

Johanna Nagy is a student at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs. Since 2010 she has been studying singing there under the guidance of Ingrid Kertesi, Attila Kiss B., and more recently, with Ilona Tokody. Currently, she is also taking courses with Zsuzsanna Bazsinka to train singers herself. She has taken masterclasses with Éva Marton, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Berislav Jerkovich, István Andrejcsik, Andrea Meláth. In the framework of the special opera series called Opera Tales at the National Theatre of Pécs, she had the opportunity to portray Clorinda in Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Monteverdi, the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, the Gingerbread Witch in Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck and Despina in Così fan tutte by Mozart, and later she also sang Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. She is very proud of a premiere of a cycle of songs by Árpád Balázs at the Kodály Centre (Pécs), as the composer dedicated the piece to her personally. Thanks to the choirmaster Attila Kertész, she had the opportunity to perform as a soloist in Ugento (Italy) and many places across Israel. She won first prize at the International Singing Competition Lav Mirski. Since 2015, she has been the Talent Ambassador of the University of Pécs.

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