Andrea Meláth

The Liszt Prize-awarded mezzo-soprano started her higher education at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. She completed her studies in 1998, and in the same year, she was awarded the Annie Fisher Grant. Already in 1996, she participated at the Bayreuth Festival on another scholarship. She debuted in the role of Cherubino of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in 1998, then later that year she acted in the leading role of Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas. In 1999, she debuted in the Hungarian State Opera in the role of Rosetta in János Vajda’s Leonce and Lena. In the same year she won 3rd Prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London. For her high level interpretation of contemporary Hungarian music, she has received the Artisjus Award nine times. Beyond her artistic career, she taught at the University of Pécs between 2007 and 2012. Since 2013 she has been the Head of the Liszt Academyʼs Department of Vocal and Opera Studies.