
István Rácz
opera singer
bass
István Rácz was born in Debrecen in 1963 and graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1990. His teachers included Lamberto Gardelli, Rico Sacchani, Zoltán Peskó, Pier Giorgio Morandi, János Ács, András Mikó, Ádám Medveczky, János Kovács, James Conlon, Emil Petrovics, Miklós Szinetár, Balázs Potyók, Edit Fábry, Zsolt Bende, Dezső Ligeti, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Hanne-Lore Kuhse, Eszter Réthy and Mircea Briazu. He also attended master classes led by the latter four.
He has been recognised with numerous several awards over the course of his career, including the Bartók-Pásztory Award, the Juventus Award, the Miklós Bence Award, the Ferenc Liszt Award and the Vilmos Rubányi Award. He took second place at the Second Pavarotti Singing Competition in Modena and has been a member of the Hungarian State Opera since 1990. He also joined Oper der Stadt Köln for the 1992/93 season, where he got the chance to sing roles like Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), the Bosun (Billy Budd, directed by Willy Decker) and Simone (Mozart: La finta semplice).
He has made numerous appearances abroad, including as a Nazarene (Salome) and Philip II (Don Carlos) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, as Ramfis (Aida) in Taormina, as Zuniga (Carmen) in Stuttgart and Bellinzona, as Angelotti (Tosca) and the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly) in Japan and Timur (Turandot) in Klagenfurt. He has sung the parts in Mozart's and Verdi's Requiems several times, and has also portrayed Bluebeard (in Bluebeard's Castle) in several cities, including Freiburg, Kuala Lumpur, Rome, Ostrava and Miskolc.
Along with popular bass roles from Mozart (Sarastro, Osman, the Commendatore), Verdi (Philip II, Zaccaria, Sparafucile, Banco, Fiesco, Ramfis) and Puccini (Colline, Simone, Angelotti, Talpa, Timur), his repertoire also embraces works by Mussorgsky, Britten, Janáček, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. His oratorical repertoire includes Rossini's Stabat Mater, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Haydn's four great masses and Kodály's Te Deum of Buda Castle. In 2022 he earned the Zoltán Závodszky Award, in 2023 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
He has been recognised with numerous several awards over the course of his career, including the Bartók-Pásztory Award, the Juventus Award, the Miklós Bence Award, the Ferenc Liszt Award and the Vilmos Rubányi Award. He took second place at the Second Pavarotti Singing Competition in Modena and has been a member of the Hungarian State Opera since 1990. He also joined Oper der Stadt Köln for the 1992/93 season, where he got the chance to sing roles like Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), the Bosun (Billy Budd, directed by Willy Decker) and Simone (Mozart: La finta semplice).
He has made numerous appearances abroad, including as a Nazarene (Salome) and Philip II (Don Carlos) at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, as Ramfis (Aida) in Taormina, as Zuniga (Carmen) in Stuttgart and Bellinzona, as Angelotti (Tosca) and the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly) in Japan and Timur (Turandot) in Klagenfurt. He has sung the parts in Mozart's and Verdi's Requiems several times, and has also portrayed Bluebeard (in Bluebeard's Castle) in several cities, including Freiburg, Kuala Lumpur, Rome, Ostrava and Miskolc.
Along with popular bass roles from Mozart (Sarastro, Osman, the Commendatore), Verdi (Philip II, Zaccaria, Sparafucile, Banco, Fiesco, Ramfis) and Puccini (Colline, Simone, Angelotti, Talpa, Timur), his repertoire also embraces works by Mussorgsky, Britten, Janáček, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. His oratorical repertoire includes Rossini's Stabat Mater, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Haydn's four great masses and Kodály's Te Deum of Buda Castle. In 2022 he earned the Zoltán Závodszky Award, in 2023 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
Performances
November 3. 18:00
contemporary
opera
16
rehearsal
DAS RHEINGOLD
November 6. 15:00
contemporary
opera
16
rehearsal
SIEGFRIED
November 9. 19:00
contemporary
opera
16
DAS RHEINGOLD
November 11. 16:00
contemporary
opera
16
SIEGFRIED
November 16. 19:00
contemporary
opera
16
DAS RHEINGOLD
November 18. 16:00
contemporary
opera
16
SIEGFRIED
December 4. 19:00
concert version
opera
NABUCCO – concert performance
December 8. 19:00
concert version
opera
NABUCCO – concert performance
Dynamic prices
May 2. 18:00
contemporary
opera
14
rehearsal
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT – MVM OperAdventure
Youth Programme
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May 4. 19:00
contemporary
opera
14
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
May 10. 19:00
contemporary
opera
14
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
May 12. 11:00
contemporary
opera
14
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
May 17. 19:00
contemporary
opera
14
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
May 22. 19:00
contemporary
opera
14
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
May 26. 11:00
contemporary
opera
14
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
June 2. 17:00
mixed
opera
14
THE IMAGINARY INVALID OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITES
June 7. 20:00
mixed
opera
14
THE IMAGINARY INVALID OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITES
June 9. 11:00
mixed
opera
14
THE IMAGINARY INVALID OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITES
June 27. 18:00
classic
opera
12
rehearsal
RIGOLETTO
June 29. 19:00
classic
opera
12
RIGOLETTO
July 3. 19:00
classic
opera
12
RIGOLETTO
July 5. 19:00
classic
opera
12
RIGOLETTO
July 7. 19:00
classic
opera
12
RIGOLETTO
July 10. 19:00
classic
opera
12
RIGOLETTO
July 12. 19:00
classic
opera
12
RIGOLETTO
July 14. 19:00
classic
opera
12