Máté Fülep
No. 20
Voice type: Baritone/Bass-baritone
Country: Hungary
Date of birth: 6 March, 1986
Between 2004 and 2009, he was attending the Voice Department of the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen. Two years later, he went on pursue an M.A in opera singing at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has participated in numerous masterclasses, among others with Adrienne Csengery and Éva Marton. He has sung in the Netherlands Radio Choir and also in the Hungarian National Choir. He was member of the Dutch National Opera for several years. Since 2015, he has been a returning guest of the Hungarian State Opera and the Festival Theatre. In the last two years, he featured as Bagó in Pongrác Kacsóh’s János Vitéz, as Dancaïre in Carmen, as Mathieu in Giordano’s verist opera Andrea Chénier, as Biberach in Erkel’s Bánk bán, or as De Retz in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, or as Jake in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die drei Zigeuner (N. Lenau)
Donizetti: Ah! non avea piu lagrime – Corrado’s Aria from Maria di Rudenz
Thomas: Ò vin dissipe la tristesse – Hamlet’s Aria from Hamlet
Semi-final
Tchaikovsky: Vy mne pisali, ne otpiraytes (You wrote to me… Do not deny it) – Eugene Onegin’ Aria from Eugene Onegin
Korngold: Pierrot's Tanzlied (Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen) – Fritz’s Aria from Die tote Stadt
Final
Donizetti: Vien Leonora, a piedi tuoi – Alfonso XI’s Aria from La favorite
Rossini: Largo al factotum – Figaro’s Aria from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Gounod: Avant de quitter ces lieux – Valentin’s Prayer from Faust