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.
Was born 23 March 1943 Budapest. He started his music studies at the age of five when his father gave him piano lessons. Later on, his teacher was Viktor Vaszy. In the Béla Bartók Secondary School for Music he was pupil of István Szelényi, and at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy he learned composing from Ferenc Szabó and Imre Vincze. He graduated with honour in 1966.
Composer, conductor and teacher: the Hungarian Peter Eötvös combines all three functions in one very high-profile career.
Albin Fries’ opera, Nora was the winner of the competition and will be performed at the next Opera Festival in Miskolc in 2019.
Albin Fries was born in Steyr, Upper Austria. After studying in Vienna with the internationally known pianist Alexander Jenner, he began his career as a concert pianist performing in such prestigious concert halls as the Musikverein (Golden Hall) with Tschaikovski's 2nd Concerto under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold is often associated with the creation of the symphonic film score. Indeed, many of his admirers today became familiar with his music through his film scores of the 1930s and 1940s. But before arriving in Hollywood he was a well-known composer of concert and chamber music, operas and stage works, as well as an arranger and conductor. Though most often compared to Mozart himself, Korngold was, in his own right, one of the most gifted composing child-prodigies in the history of music.
