Szeleczki Artúr
No. 51
Voice type: Tenor
Country: Hungary
Date of birth: 9 July, 1997
In 2020, he graduated from the Liszt Academy with a BA in Classical Singing as a student of Péter Fried. He is currently pursuing an MA in Opera Singing under the tutelage of Éva Marton.
In 2021, he was awarded a scholarship from the New National Excellence Programme to study songs with guitar accompaniment by Benjamin Britten and John Dowland. He won third place for a paper on this topic in the Arts branch of Hungary’s National Conference of Students’ Scholarly Circles.
This year, he won a National Scholarship for Higher Education, having also received the Junior Prima Prize in 2021.
Among his theatre experiences, he sang the role of Tmolus in a staged version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata ‘Phoebus and Pan’ in 2021.
In the 2021–22 season, he made his debut in a few small roles at the Hungarian State Opera, where he will appear as Belfiore in Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera from July 2022.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die Macht der Musik
Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima – Nemorino’s romance from L’elisir d’amore
Erkel: Van végre egy pár nyugodt pillanat!... Ó, szállj hozzám ég angyala! – Hunyadi László’s recitative and aria from Hunyadi László
Semi-final
Cilea: È la storia del pastore – Federico’s aria from L’Arlesiana
Weber: Nein, länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen… Durch die Wälder durch die Auen – Max’s recitative and aria from Der Freischütz
Final
Verdi: Oh! fede negar potessi… Quando le sere al placido – Rodolfo’s recitative and aria from Luisa Miller
Wagner: In fernem Land – Lohengrin’s aria from Lohengrin
Tchaikovsky: Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis – Lensky’s aria from Eugene Onegin