Erdős Róbert

Voice type: Tenor

Country: Hungary

Date of birth: 11 November, 1995

Róbert Erdős was born in Târgu Mureș Transylvania, on 11 November 1995. He finished his studies at the Music High School in his town. In 2014 he was admitted to the King St. Stephen Conservatory in Budapest, and he had studied there for three years. He had the honor to get the Oratorio Choir of St. Stephen “Brenton Langbein” award in 2016. He won prizes on several national singing competitions (National Gregor József Singing Competition 2nd prize, National Székely Mihály Singing Competition 3rd prize, IV. National Singing Competition 1st prize).

In the summer of 2017, he joined a music summer school in Tokaj, called Crescendo Summer Institute International Master Class, and he have taken part in it every summer since then. In 2017 he was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest BA Classical Singing study programme. His singing teacher is Mrs. Andrea Meláth, mezzo-soprano.

In 2018 he participated in the Hindemith performance, organized by the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, which was realized as a piece of opera of the production: German Late Night. In the same year he performed with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra with who they presented some fragments from the oratorio: Joseph Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy. He took part in master classes held by Claudio Di Segni and Krisztina Laki at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. He was a finalist in the X. József Simándy International Singing Competition, where he won a special prize. He also got a special award in the II. Éva Andor Memorial Competition for the best Baroque aria (Händel aria – Ev’ry valley: Messiah).

 In 2019, he had received again a role in the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, where he played in a contemporary Hungarian opera (Tóték), written by Péter Tóth. In the same year, he had the chance to work with the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok, performing Johan Sebastian Bach’s Cantata BWV 201 (“Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan”), conducted by Gábor Hollerung, where he played the role of Tmolus. He worked with András Almási-Tóth in the opera Trouble in Tahiti, written by Leonard Bernstein, where he was one of the choir.

After all, he was honored to be invited by Claudio Di Segni to take part in his master class in San Gemini. In the autumn of 2019, he sang at the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy with the Zugló Philharmonics, where he sang the tenor solo in Händel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt. The conductor was Pál Makovecz. The next opportunity to perform was again with the Zugló Philharmonics; they performed Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by Kálmán Záborszky. In December, he worked with the director Balázs Kovalik in a prose play (Lót Szodomában) at the Örkény Theatre.

In 2020, he finished his studies in classical singing BA and he finally graduated in performing arts at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. Then he was admitted – also here – to MA oratorio and song major, Mrs. Andrea Meláth is still his professor. In the summer of 2020, he participated in the master class of István Kovácsházi. In October one of his first role fulfilled, as he made his debut in the heart of Transylvania – in his homeland – in the role of Tamino (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte), on the stage of the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera (directed by Gábor Tompa).

He was the quarter finalist in the 12th Klaudia Taev Competition for Young Opera Singers in 2021. For the season of 2021/22 the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest chose him into the program of young talents, giving him several roles: Monteverdi–Máté Bella: L’incoronazione di Poppea (Liberto); Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Peter); Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher’s 19 years old son); Levente Gyöngyösi: The Master and Margarita (Jimmy and the First nurse). He sang in 2021 October again the role of Tamino (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte) on the stage of the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera. December 2021, he will perform Bach’s Mass in B minor, the tenor solo with the Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Salamon Kamp.

 

 

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