The Mezzosoprano was born in Hungary and studied  at the Franz Liszt Academy of Musik in Budapest. In 1992 and 1993, she won a scolarship to take part in the singer's masterclasses (Christoph Eschenbach) and concerts in the Pasific Music Festival in Sapporo.
 In 1993 she won the Ist prize in the first International Baroque Singing Competition and the special prize from the Hungarian Radio and Television.                                        She sang several oratorios and concert performances with conductors Tamas Vasary, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro and Herbert Boek.                              In 1996, she made her first CD-recording "Galuppi:Il Cafe di Campagna" with conductor Fabio Pirona.            (Hungaroton:HCD-31658-59).         When she completeed her studies in 1997, she was engaged by the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest.

Photo: Hans Jörg Michel



In 1998, she was a soloist at the Theatre Bielefeld in Germany and made her debut as Olga(Onegin), which was followed by Carmen, Nicklaus(Hoffmann), Hänsel and Maddalena(Rigoletto).

Since 2000, she has been engaged by the Nationaltheatre  Mannheim and sang with great success her debut, the part of Judith in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle with conductor Adam Fischer. Other roles include: Charlotte(Werther), Romeo(I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Nicklaus, Hänsel, Oktavian(Rosenkavalier), Hermia(A Midsummer Night's Dream),Susuki(Butterfly), Cherubino(Le nozze di Figaro), Annio and Sesto(La clemenza di Tito), Prinz Orlofsky(Fledermaus), Marina(Boris Godunov), Princess Julie(Fiesque), Preziosilla(La Forza del destino) and the titel role of Carmen.

In 2003, Andrea Szanto made her debut in the Hungarian State Opera House as Sesto and in the Bregenzer Festspiele as Zeffka in Janacek's The Diary of the One who Vanished (CD Live- Recordig VMS 144 ORF  Janacek:Tagebuch eines Verschollenen/Poulenc: La Voix humaine).

She sang in 2004 Judith(Duke Bluebeard`s Castle) in the Scottish Opera`s new production and again in Japan with the Nagoya Symphony Orchestra.
Guest engagement followed at the Opera Hannover in the role of Romeo(I Capuleti e i Montechi).

In 2006, her first Judith at the Budapest Spring Festival and her portrayal the role of Carmen at Scottish Opera in Glasgow won great acclaim.

Andrea has sang in 2007 the title role of Carmen at the Graz Opera House.

In the 2007/08 season of the Nationaltheatre Mannheim her major roles are: Oktavian(Rosenkavalier), Preziosilla(La forza del destino), Princesse Julie(in Lalo´s Fiesque), Smeton(Anna Bolena), Frugola(Il Tabarro), La Zia Principessa(Suor Angelica),
 Zita(Gianni Scicchi), Lucilla(La Scala die Seta), Hänsel, Orlofsky(Fledermaus),Suzuki(Butterfly), Maddalena(Rigoletto),

She has been invited by conductor Vjekoslav Sutej to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in Verdi´s Requiem in Zagreb in October.

Andrea has recently made her double debut at the Frankfurt Opera House with the part of Frugola(Il tabarro).
 
In July and August 2008 she is going to sing the title part of Carmen at the Schwerin Open Air Festival in Germany.
     See following articles:

http://www.svz.de/mecklenburg-vorpommern/artikeldetail/article/111/carmen-hat-so-viele-farben.html

                                             
http://www.svz.de/lokales/schwerin/artikeldetails/article/217/die-ungarische-carmen.html

Her new exciting debut roles at the Nationaltheatre of Mannheim in the Saison 2008/09 are:
Santuzza(Cavalleria Rusticana), Komponist(Ariadne auf Naxos) and
Queen Elisabeth(Maria Stuarda).