Competitors passed through to the Preliminary

Sýkora, Miroslav

Sýkora, Miroslav

No. 72

Voice type: Tenor

Country: Slovakia

Date of birth: 2 May, 1988

He was born in Kráľovský Chlmec, present-day Slovakia, in 1988. He is currently a master’s student at the Liszt Academy, having earned his bachelor’s degree there in 2018. Prior to that, he attended the Košice Timonova Conservatory. His teachers include Professor Emerita Éva Marton, Dr Magda Nádor, Marek Gurbaľ and Dr Michail Adamenko. He has attended a Suzuki training course (2020) and master classes by Claudio Di Segni, Krisztina Laki and Frank Hilbrich. In 2018, he received a special prize for male performance of the best Kodály song at the Éva Andor Memorial Competition, as well as a special prize from the jury member Lidija Horvat Dunjko at the József Simándy International Singing Competition. He has worked at the State Theatre Košice as a choral singer and appeared in solo roles in Verdi’s Rigoletto and Puccini’s Il tabarro. In recent years, he has performed in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Idomeneo, as well as in Bizet’s Carmen (as part of his exams at the Liszt Academy) and at a Visegrád Four Concert in Portugal.

Competition Repertoire

Preliminary

Liszt: Benedetto sia il giorno (Sonetto 47 di Petrarca)

Tchaikovsky: Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis – Lensky’s aria from Eugene Onegin

Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba – Canio’s aria from Pagliacci

Semi-final

Weber: Nein, länger trag’ ich nicht die Qualen... Durch die Wälder... – Max’s recitative and aria from Der Freischütz 

Verdi: Lunge da lei... De’ miei bollenti spiriti – Alfredo’s aria from La traviata

Final

Wagner: Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein – Walther von Stolzing’s aria from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 

Erkel: Mint száműzött, ki vándorol… Hazám hazám – Bánk’s aria from from Bánk bán

Puccini: Nessun dorma – Calaf’s aria from Turandot