Ruszó, Alexandra
No. 61
Voice type: Mezzo-soprano
Country: Hungary
Date of birth: 19 November, 1990
In 2004, she commenced her studies in piano at the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music and then started studying opera singing in her third year. In 2014, she received her BA degree from the Liszt Academy in Katalin Halmai’s class and earned an MA there in 2016. She has appeared as the Third Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute several times, on one occasion in a production that inaugurated the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy. She has also performed in one of Donizetti’s operas. She regularly appears in opera performances at the National Theatre of Pécs. She debuted at the Hungarian State Opera in Levente Gyöngyösi’s The Master and Margarita in 2020. She won the special prize at the József Simándy International Singing Competition in Szeged in 2010, the Gundel Art Prize in 2013 and the first prize in the Manhattan International Music Competition in 2017.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Der du von dem Himmel bist
Tchaikovsky: Podrugi milïe – Polina’s aria from The Queen of Spades
Mascagni: Voi lo sapete, o mamma – Santuzza’s aria from Cavalleria rusticana
Semi-final
Cilea: Acerba voluttà – Princess de Bouillon’s aria from Adriana Lecouvreur
Bizet: Près des remparts de Séville – Seguidilla from Carmen
Final
Tchaikovsky: Da, tchas nastal – Joan’s aria from The Maid of Orleans
Donizetti: Fia dunque vero... O mio Fernando – Leonora’s recitative and aria from La favorita
Saint-Saëns: Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix – Dalila’s aria from Samson et Dalila