Katalin Farkas (born January 5, 1954, Budapest) is a Hungarian opera singer,
soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...
. Since 1982 she is with the
Budapest National Opera
The Hungarian State Opera House ( hu, Magyar Állami Operaház) is a neo-Renaissance opera house located in central Budapest, on Andrássy út. Originally known as the Hungarian Royal Opera House, it was designed by Miklós Ybl, a major figure of ...
.
[FARKAS KATALIN]
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She studied at the
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, opera department, graduated in 1982. Before that she learned to play piano and flute.
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She made guest performances in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Spain.][
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Recordings
Her recordings are with Hungaroton.
*1985: Atalanta (opera)
*1985: La serva padrona
*1986: Don Sanche
''Don Sanche, ou Le château de l'amour'' ( en, Don Sanche, or The Castle of Love), S.1, is an opera in one act composed in 1824–25 by Franz Liszt in his early teen years, with French libretto by Théaulon and de Rancé, based on a story by ...
*1987: Der geduldige Sokrates
*1988: Il pastor fido (Handel)
*1990: Floridante
''Floridante'' ( HWV 14) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli after Francesco Silvani's libretto for Marc'Antonio Ziani dramma per musica ''La costanza in trionfo'' ...
*1990: Brockes Passion (Handel)Georg Philipp Telemann Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1
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*1993: Terpsicore
''Terpsicore'' ( HWV)( 8b) is a prologue in the form of an opéra-ballet by George Frideric Handel. Handel composed it in 1734 for a revision of his opera ''Il pastor fido'' which had first been presented in 1712. The revision of ''Il pastor fido ...
References
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1954 births
Living people
People from Budapest
Hungarian operatic sopranos
20th-century Hungarian women opera singers
Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni