Soloists
The Hungarian mezzo-soprano, Melinda Heiter, had her first experience with classical music at the age of six, when she began to play the piano. After 12 years of piano studies and choir experience, she started to take vocal training lessons and decided to be a soloist. Besides her French and Portuguese Language and Literature studies at the University Eötvös Lóránd of Budapest, she studied singing with the professors Ilona Adorján, József Hormai and Katalin Szőke.
Zsolt Homonnay was born in 1971 in Kaposvár, Hungary and by 1990 he had begun his interest in the theatre at the Zalaegerszeg studios of the Sandor Hevesi Theatre. In the meantime, he was admitted into the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, where he continued his studies in the operetta-musical faculty until his graduation in 1997. During his school years, he played in several musicals, among others Miss Saigon and West Side Story. Right after university, he was invited to perform in several theatres in Hungary, among them Pécs and Szolnok. In 1999, he procured the key role of Che Guevara in the tour of the world-famous musical Evita and then also interpreted Jesus in An-drew Lloyd Webber''s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.