Born in Keszthely, tenor László Boldizsár grew up in Paks, where he began his life in music at age seven at the local music school. After spending 15 years as the front man for the Cotton Club Singers jazz ensemble that he founded, he then went on to further his career in the genre of opera. He mastered the bel canto technique under two superb teachers, first studying under Olga Sík, and later under Berle Sanford Rosenberg, who herself was one of Carlo Bergoni's last students. In the first four years of his career as an opera singer, he sang principal tenor parts in 14 operas and three operettas. He made his debut with the Hungarian State Opera in 2012, in the role of Pinkerton. Apart from his performances at Budapest's opera house, he has also been a regular guest at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava and the National Theatre of Szeged, and has also made several appearances in each Győr, Miskolc, Košice, Prague, Estonia and Cluj-Napoca.
Awards and recognitions:
Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2023)
Chamber Singer of the Hungarian State Opera (2017/18)
György Melis Award (2016)
Friends of the Opera of Szeged Award (2014)
Dömötör Award, Szeged (2011, 2014)
Simándy Prize (2010)
“Opera Singer of the Year” award, Szeged (2010)
Viktor Vaszy Award, Szeged (2010)
“Man of the Year” award from on-line classical music journal www.momus.hu (2009)
Principal roles:
Bizet: Carmen – Don José
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust – Faust
Busoni: Doktor Faust – Mephistopheles
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur – Maurizio
Donizetti: Anna Bolena – Percy
Goldmark: Die Königin von Saba – Assad
Gounod: Faust – Faust
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci – Canio
Erkel: Bánk bán – Otto
Erkel: Hunyadi László – László Hunyadi
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – Turiddu
Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots – Raoul de Nangis
Mozart: The Magic Flute – Tamino
Offenbach: Les contes de Hoffmann – Hoffmann
Liszt: Don Sanche – Don Sanche
Tchaikovsky: Onegin – Lensky
Puccini: La bohème – Rodolfo
Puccini: Tosca – Cavaradossi
Puccini: Turandot – Calaf
Puccini: Manon Lescaut – Des Grieux
Puccini: Il tabarro – Luigi
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex – Oedipus
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera – Ricardo
Verdi: Il trovatore – Manrico
Verdi: Traviata – Alfred Germont
Verdi: Rigoletto – Duke of Mantua
Verdi: Macbeth – Macbeth
Verdi: Don Carlos – Don Carlos
Verdi: I due Foscari – Jacopo Foscari
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer – Erik
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini – Paolo
Offenbach: Die Rheinnixen – Franz Waldung
Wolf-Ferrari: Sly – Christopher Sly
The Gershwins®: Porgy and Bess® – Sporting Life
