Andrea Szántó
Future Engagements in 2023/24 follows among others: Kundry(Parsifal) , Waltraute(Götterdämmerung), Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova (War and Peace), Maddalena(Rigoletto) an the Innkeeper in the Premiere production of Mussorgsky Boris Godunov.
Andrea becam the Chamber Singer of the saison 2022/23 at the Hungarian State Opera House and revived the Prize Zoltán Závodszky for her interpretation of Wagner heroins in 2022.
Andrea Szántó was born in Hungary. She completed her studies at the Academy of Music in Budapest. She won joint First Prize at the I. Barock Singing Competition in Hungary and received the Special Prize of the Hungarian Television and Broadcast. She twice received a scholarship to take part in the Pacific Music Festival in Japan and was awarded the Annie Fischer Prize and Margit Szilvássy Prize in Hungary.
After her studies she was engaged by the Hungarian State Opera House, she was the member of the Bielefeld Theatre. She has been the soloist for 13 years at the National Theatre Mannheim.
Her wide ranged repertoire includes: the title role of Eboli(Don Carlo), Amneris(Aida), Santuzza(Cavalleria rusticana), Preziosilla(La forza del destino), Laura(Gioconda), Elisabetta( Maria Stuarda), Adalgisa(Norma), Kundry(Parsifal), Ortrud(Lohengrin), Venus(Tannhäuser), Judith (Bluebeard´s Castle), Marina(Boris Godunow), Charlotte(Werther), Dalila(Samson et Dalila) and the title role of Carmen.
She worked with conductors: Christoph Eschenbach, Michel Tilson-Thomas, Axel Kober, Tamás Vásáry, Peter Eötvös, Ádám Fischer, Iván Fischer, Riccardo Frizza, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Howard Williams, Kirill Karabits,Dan Ettinger, Herbert Boek, Sir Richard Armstrong, Zoltán Kocsis, János Kovács and Vjekoslav Sutej.
She worked with stage directors : Hans Neuenfels, André Engel, Christopher Alden, Achim Freyer, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Olivier Tambosi és Philipp Himmelmann.
Guest engagements followed amoung others at the Bregenzer Festspiele, in Frankfurt, Hannover, Wiesbaden, Nürnberg, Köln,at the Scottish Opera, at Theater Graz, at the Schwerin Open Air Festival, at the Budapest Spring Festival, Wien, Toulouse, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Kiew, Shanghai, Sapporo, Tokyo, Vilnius, at the Hungarian State Opera House, Zagreb.
As a concert soloist she performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus, at the Budapest Art´s Palais and at the Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona.