
Melinda Heiter
Opera singer
mezzo-soprano
Budapest-born mezzo-soprano Melinda Heiter obtained her degree in solo voice from the Budapest Pedagogical Institute of the Ference Liszt Academy of Music in 2008, after completing her studies in French and Portuguese at the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University. Her current teachers are Bernadett Wiedemann and répétiteur Katalin Szőke, and she has also participated in Júlia Hamari's master classes every year since 2003. She has sung in numerous theatres and concert halls both in Hungary and abroad, including the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, the National Theatre, the Csokonai National Theatre of Debrecen, the national theatres of Miskolc and Szeged, Szombathely's Bartók Hall, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Das Zentrum Europasaal Bayreuth, Stadthalle Bayreuth, Aalto Musiktheater Essen. She has also appeared at a number of festivals both in Hungary and abroad, such as the Bartók Plus Opera Festival, the Franz-Liszt-Jubiläum 2011 in Bayreuth, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Opera Festival, the Iseumi Summer Open-air Festival in Szombathely, the Early Music Festival in Fertőd and the Richard-Wagner-Jubiläum 2013 in Bayreuth. In 2013, she won the Eighth International József Simándy Singing Competition, taking away two special prizes as well. In that same year, she also received the Bayreuth scholarship of the Richard Wagner Society. In 2014, she was a finalist in the Competizione dell’Opera in Tashkent. She made her debut on the stage of the Hungarian State Opera House in 2012 in the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte, later going on to sing the roles of Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Mercédès (Carmen), Lola (Cavelleria rusticana), Flosshilde (Das Rheingold) and the High Priestess (Aida).
Performances
October 9. 19:00
classic
opera
16
Manon Lescaut
October 11. 19:00
classic
opera
16
Manon Lescaut
October 15. 19:00
classic
opera
16
Manon Lescaut
February 20. 20:00
mixed
stream
16
premiere
Don Carlo – ONLINE premier
February 21. 18:00
mixed
opera
14
Don Carlo

February 26. 18:00
mixed
opera
14
Don Carlo

February 28. 11:00
mixed
opera
14
Don Carlo

March 4. 18:00
mixed
opera
14
Don Carlo

March 14. 18:00
mixed
opera
14
Don Carlo

April 2. 17:00
contemporary
opera
16
premiere
Parsifal – ONLINE premiere
May 9. 18:00
mixed
opera
16
Les Huguenots
May 14. 18:00
mixed
opera
16
Les Huguenots
May 16. 18:00
mixed
opera
16