Tünde Szabóki

Tünde Szabóki was born in Budapest. She studied piano, singing and choral conducting in Budapest and Graz. She has won prizes at several international singing competitions and was awarded the Ferenc Liszt Prize and the Artisjus Prize by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture in 2011. As a concert singer, she has performed at renowned festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Festival, the Festival de Montpellier and the Budapest Spring Festival, as well as the Bern­stein Festival in Jerusalem. As an opera singer, she has performed at the Gran Theatro Liceu in Barcelona, the Graz Opera, the Debrecen and Miskolc National Theaters, as well as at the Hungarian State Opera, performing such roles as Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio, Vitellia in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, the Feldmarschallin in Rosenkavalier, as well as the third Norn (Götterdämmerung) and Gerhilde (Walküre) at the “Wagner in Budapest” Opera Festival. In 2013, she sang the soprano solo in the première of Penderecki’s Eighth Symphony, conducted by Maestro Pende­recki himself. Numerous CD and DVD recordings bear witness to the artistic presence of this much sought-after soprano.