
Andrea Szántó
Opera singer
mezzo-soprano
Born in Berettyóújfalu, Andrea Szántó launched her musical studies at the Gyula Music School with József Csiky, later becoming a student of Valária Berdál at the Szeged Conservatory. She earned her diploma from the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest in the course headed by Éva Andor. Her artistic and vocal development has been aided by Erzsébet Komlóssy and Margit Kaposy, and she is currently working with Dana Mihaylova. She was still a student at the academy when she shared first prize, and won Hungarian Radio and Television's special prize, at the First International Baroque Singing Competition.
After completing her studies, she signed with the Hungarian State Opera. A former member of Theater-Bielefeld, she would go on to become a soloist at the National Theatre Mannheim, where she made her debut in the role of Judit (in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle) under the baton of Adam Fischer. With a repertoire embracing more than 50 operatic roles and also as a concert singer, she has performed at the Bregenz Festival and the Schwerin Castle Festival, as well as in such cities as Vienna, Graz, Hannover, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Zagreb, Toulouse, Nagoya, Sapporo and Tokyo. The list of composers she has collaborated with includes Christoph Eschenbach, Tamás Vásáry, Adam Fischer, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, János Kovács, Zoltán Kocsis, Friedemann Layer and Howard Williams, and she has also worked with numerous major directors, such as Hans Neuenfels, Christopher Alden, Achim Freyer and Philip Himmelmann.
Principal roles: Eboli (Don Carlos), Preziosilla (La forza del destino), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Laura (La Gioconda), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Adalgisa (Norma), Judit (Bluebeard's Castle), Kundry (Parsifal), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Venus (Tannhäuser), Charlotte (Werther), the title role in Carmen, Dalila (Samson et Dalila) and Marina (Boris Godunov).
After completing her studies, she signed with the Hungarian State Opera. A former member of Theater-Bielefeld, she would go on to become a soloist at the National Theatre Mannheim, where she made her debut in the role of Judit (in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle) under the baton of Adam Fischer. With a repertoire embracing more than 50 operatic roles and also as a concert singer, she has performed at the Bregenz Festival and the Schwerin Castle Festival, as well as in such cities as Vienna, Graz, Hannover, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Zagreb, Toulouse, Nagoya, Sapporo and Tokyo. The list of composers she has collaborated with includes Christoph Eschenbach, Tamás Vásáry, Adam Fischer, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, János Kovács, Zoltán Kocsis, Friedemann Layer and Howard Williams, and she has also worked with numerous major directors, such as Hans Neuenfels, Christopher Alden, Achim Freyer and Philip Himmelmann.
Principal roles: Eboli (Don Carlos), Preziosilla (La forza del destino), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Laura (La Gioconda), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Adalgisa (Norma), Judit (Bluebeard's Castle), Kundry (Parsifal), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Venus (Tannhäuser), Charlotte (Werther), the title role in Carmen, Dalila (Samson et Dalila) and Marina (Boris Godunov).
Performances
September 25. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

September 27. 11:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

September 28. 19:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

October 6. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

October 10. 19:00
contemporary
opera
16
premiere
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

October 12. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

November 19. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

November 29. 19:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

December 18. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

December 20. 11:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

December 31. 20:30
classic
operetta
12
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
January 3. 19:00
classic
operetta
12
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
January 8. 19:00
classic
operetta
12
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
January 10. 19:00
classic
operetta
12
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
January 15. 19:00
classic
operetta
12
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
March 13. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) – ONLINE stream
April 2. 17:00
contemporary
opera
16
premiere
Parsifal – ONLINE premiere
May 29. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
Porgy and Bess® – ONLINE stream
June 25. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16
premiere
Carmen
June 27. 20:00
contemporary
opera
16