Performers
Bartók Plus Opera Festival hosts world-renowned Hungarian artists as well as stars of the international opera scene. Since its beginnings almost all significant soloists, opera companies and music ensembles from Central Eastern Europe have appeared on its stages at least once. You will find information about them under the menu item Performers.
Zsolt Nagy began his musical career as a coach and conductor at the City Theatre of Békécsaba (1976/79) in Hungary. At the age of 23 he took up conducting studies with István Párkai at the Academy of Music in Budapest (diploma in 1984).
conductor
Vittorio Parisi studied at the G.Verdi Conservatorium in Milan with Azio Corghi (composition),
Piero Rattalino (piano) Mario Gusella and Gianluigi Gelmetti (conducting); he also attended
masterclasses with Kirill Kondrashin (he was the only italian pupil of the famous Russian
conductor) and with Terence Lovett and George Hurst in England.
conductor, composer
Born on October 5, 1992 in London – is quite a sensation.
The son of an English farmer and a Russian mother who loves the arts (though she is not a musician), his breathtaking musical development and career were hardly predictable, nor was he encouraged or pushed to become a musician. On the contrary!
György Selmeczi represents the composer-conductor type in the most favourable way from inside he feels and undergoes musical structrures, colours, tempos, types, and he is able to communicate them in a purely musical way with a special ability: he plays music reserved, still with pregnancy" (Tibor Tallián).
