Dénes Gulyás (born 31 March 1954) is a
Hungarian tenor
A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...
. A native of
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
, he studied at the
Franz Liszt Academy of Music
The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music ( hu, Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as ''Zeneakadémia'', "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the ...
in that city. He had an international career in the 1970s, and sang at the
Metropolitan Opera
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, among other houses; one of his performances there, a ''
Manon
''Manon'' () is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel '' L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first ...
'' in which he replaced
Neil Shicoff
Neil Shicoff (born June 2, 1949) is an American opera singer and cantor and known for his lyric tenor singing and his dramatic, emotional acting.
Beginnings
Neil Shicoff was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Juilliard School of Musi ...
as Des Grieux to the Manon of
Catherine Malfitano
Catherine Malfitano (born April 18, 1948) is an American operatic soprano and opera director. Malfitano was born in New York City, the daughter of a ballet dancer mother, Maria Maslova, and a violinist father, Joseph Malfitano. She attended the ...
, was
broadcast live as part of the company's Saturday radio broadcast series.
He was also a member of Parliament, representing the
Fidesz party, between 2006 and 2014.
Life
He completed locksmith trade school. At age 19, he was admitted to the Music Academy, where in 1978 he was awarded diplomas in Opera Singing and Artistic Instructor. In 1979, he won two prizes in the Giovanni Cantanti Lirici competition, as well as in 1982 winning 1st prize in the first national Luciano Pavarotti vocal competition. He was a soloist at the Budapest Opera House as well as the Szeged National Theater, led the Gyor Kisfaludi Theater Opera Association, and as Musical Advisor to the National Theater, he revived the Chamber Music Series at the refectory.
Since 1995, he has been teaching voice at the Liszt Ferenc Music Conservatory.
Political career
Until 2003, he had no party affiliation. However, at the (then) Fidesz Congressional Convention, he joined the party. In 2004, he was nominated for Presidency of the Pest Valley 10th district (
Pilisvörösvár) where in 2006 he won by a substantial margin. Since 30 March 2006 he had been a member of Parliament's Cultural and Media committees.
Awards
* Franz Liszt Prize, 1982
* Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, 1985
* Outstanding Artist of the Republic of Hungary, 2000
* Hungarian Heritage Award, 2014
Personal life
Gulyás is married and has three children.
Fidesz-KDNP
- Népszabadság
References
External links
*
1954 births
Living people
Hungarian operatic tenors
Hungarian male film actors
Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni
Fidesz politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)
Academic staff of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
Musicians from Budapest
Male actors from Budapest
Artists of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic
Merited artists of the Republic of Hungary
20th-century Hungarian male opera singers
21st-century Hungarian male opera singers
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