Máthé Beáta
No. 48
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Hungary
Date of birth: 12 November, 1988
Between 2014 and 2019, she studied at the Faculty of Music, University of Szeged (Hungary), where she earned BA and MA degrees under István Andrejcsik. During those years, she attended master classes by Viktória Vizin, Andrea Rost, Miklós Szinetár, Sylvia Sass and Éva Marton. As a student, she competed in the Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský International Singing Competition (Trnava, Slovakia) and the Tenth International József Simándy Singing Competition (Szeged, Hungary), where she was a semi-finalist, as well as winning a special prize at the Third Emil Petrovics Singing Competition (Debrecen, Hungary). Since 2017, she has been a member of the National Theatre of Szeged, where she made her debut as Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen in 2018. Her repertoire includes the title role in Dargay, Nepp, Romhányi and Strauss’s Szaffi, Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. In 2019, she sang Christine in Albin Fries’s Nora at the Bartók Plus Opera Festival in Miskolc, Hungary, and performed in Puccini, a dalnok (Puccini, Master of Song), an evening of song held as part of the Hungarian State Opera’s Eiffel Art Studio.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Im Rhein, im schönen Strome
Erkel: Mióta láttam őt – Mara’s romance from Brankovics György
Purcell: Thy hand Belinda… When I am laid in Earth – Dido’s recitative and aria from Dido and Aeneas
Semi-final
Bizet: C’est des contrebandiers... Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante – Micaëla’s recitative and aria from Carmen
Puccini: Signore, ascolta! – Liù’s aria from Turandot
Final
Puccini: Un bel dì vedremo – Cio-Cio-san’s aria from Madama Butterfly
Verdi: Ritorna vincitor! – Aida’s aria from Aida
Tchaikovsky: Puskai pogibnu ya – Tatyana’s aria from Eugene Onegin