Éva Marton

Éva Marton (* June 18, 1943 ( other location also 1939) in Budapest) is a Hungarian opera singer ( first lyric soprano, later increasingly dramatic soprano ).

Biography and artistic work

Éva Marton, born Henry, studied singing with Endre Rosler and Jeno Sipos at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music her hometown and made his debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the summer festival on Margaret Island. Your official opera debut took place in 1968 at the Hungarian State Opera, as Queen Schemacha in The Golden Cockerel, a role on the border with coloratura soprano. Later she earned at the Opera of Budapest, to which they always returned despite her international career, acclaim as Queen of Babylon in the opera Semirâma by Ottorino Respighi.

From 1972 to 1977, Éva Marton member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, the contract also connected with the Vienna State Opera. The internationally famous soprano excelled at all the great opera stages of the world, in Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, Zurich, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, etc. They could just as in the lyric (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Umberto Giordano, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini ) as in the dramatic repertoire ( Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss) remarkable successes. Éva Marton is a versatile singer with voluminous voice. Her repertoire ranges from Belcanto to the High Dramatic: So she sat down with her voice in any game, and always effortlessly over every orchestra away and filled the largest opera houses to the last row ( Herrmann / Hollaender 1997, p 73). It belong to their central roles, especially that of Tosca, Turandot and Elektra.

At the Bayreuth Festival, she appeared as Venus in Tannhäuser 1977-1978. Éva Marton 1986 aroused at the Metropolitan Opera New York sensation. During the performance of the opera Tosca, she suffered a jaw injury, but sat still the notion that there is.

Éva Marton, who worked with all internationally famous conductors and stood with the great singing colleagues and female colleagues their time on stage, may also booked a global career as a concert singer. Extensive CD and DVD releases document the work of this exceptional artist.

Since 2005, Éva Marton Head of the singing faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where since 2006 a professor of singing. She is married to the surgeon Zoltán Marton.

In the season 2007/2008 she sang at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf and Duisburg Küsterin in Jenufa.

Awards

Discography (selection)

• Puccini: Tosca 1976
• Puccini: Manon Lescaut in 1978
• Beethoven: Fidelio 1983
• Giordano: Andrea Chenier 1986
• Giordano: Fedora 1986
• Boito: Mefistofele 1988
• Catalani: La Wally 1990
• Respighi: Semirâma 1990
• Wagner: Siegfried 1990 ( Brünnhilde, conductor: Bernard Haitink )
• Wagner: Gotterdammerung 1991 ( Brünnhilde line: Bernard Haitink )
• Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana in 1996
• Puccini: Turandot 1983