Biography
Transylvanian bass-baritone Zoltan Nagy is one of the most versatile arists of his generation. His international career started as a member of the Vienna State Opera’s ensemble at the age of 24 and developed into a fruitful career as a freelancer, performing worldwide, and in some of the world’s prestigious opera houses such as The Royal Opera House Covent Garden (La Bohème), the Bolshoi Theater of Moscow (Le Nozze di Figaro), the Komische Oper Berlin (Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, Hamburg State Opera (Das schlaue Füchslein) or Theater an der Wien (Peer Gynt, Iphigenie en Aulide, La Wally, Jenufa, Wo die Wilden Kerle wohnen).
Thanks to a darker timbre of his voice and an extended vocal range, Zoltan has been able to successfully approach a wide repertoire of roles like Escamillo, part he has sang in numerous productions worldwide beginning with the Romanian and Hunagarian National Opera Houses in Bukarest and in Budapest, through Staatstheater Nürnberg, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, ABAO Bilbao, RTE Dublin, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Ponchilelli di Cremona, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Regio Torino until Shaanxi Grand Theater in Xi’an. La Bohème is also an often found title in the the artists calender, Zoltan has sung over one hundred performances os La Bohème as both Schaunard/Marcello at VlaamseeOpera Antwerpen, Oper Gent, Oper Leipzig, Opera de Nice, Teatro Comunale Sassari, Opera Budapest and Bukarest and at the Royal Opera House among others.
Zoltan made his debut in Italy singing the part of dr. Falke in a new production of Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss at Teatro Verdi Trieste under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti.
He has sang his first Alberich at Opera Oviedo in Spain, in new productions of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in 2017 and 2018. At Teatro Regio di Parma he appeared in a new production of Weill’s Fall and Rise of the city of Mahagonny as Trinity Moses in 2022.
Count Tomski was a debut in a new production of Tschaikowski’s Pique Dame at the Opera Festival Heidenheim accompanied by the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker under Marcus Bosch.
The artist appears on Unitel released DVD’s of Catalani’s La Wally at Theater an der Wien, Das Labyrinth from Peter von Winter at the Salzburg Festival. He sings the part of Theseus in Martinu’s Ariane, on a Supraphon released CD, a live recording of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Tomas Netopil.
Zoltan Nagy has collaborated with the Singapore Symphony, Wiener Philarmoniker, RSO Wien, Wiener Symponiker, Robert Schumann Philarmonie, Essener Philharmoniker, RTE Dublin, National Orchestra of Taiwan, Orchestra of the Romanian and Hungarian National Radios, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Capella Aquileia.
Some of the conductors Zoltan worked with are Marco Armiliato, Stefan Soltesz, Adam Fischer, Fabio Luisi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, John Wilson, Leo Hussein, Peter Schneider, Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Alejo Pèrez, Christopher Franklin, Michael Balke, Renato Palumbo, Stephan Zilias, Carlo Goldstein, Marc Minkowski, Kevin John Edusei, Evelino Pidò, among others.
He has collaborated with Peter Konwitschny, Stefano Poda, Calixto Bieito, Joan Anton Rechi, Inga Levant, Immo Karaman, Thorsten Fischer, Maurizio Scaparro, Federic Roels, Daniel Benoin, Barbora Horakova, Charles Roubaud among other stage directors.
Born in Transylvania (Romania) from a hungarian family, Zoltan has studied at Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy with prof. Gheorghe Rosu, followed by a scholarship at Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg under the guidance of Boris Bakow. The artist is also Virginia Zeani’s last pupil.