Éva Marton 80 – jubilee gala featuring Jonathan Tetelman

On 18 June 2023, the Hungarian State Opera celebrates the greatest Hungarian soprano of the 20th century on the occasion of her birthday with performances by her former and current students, as well as the winners of the Éva Marton International Singing Competition. Special guest star of the evening is one of today’s most exciting rising tenors, Jonathan Tetelman. The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra is conducted by general music director Balázs Kocsár, the gala is directed by artistic director András Almási-Tóth.

Éva Marton, one of the most outstanding dramatic sopranos in the world, has sung the most beautiful and difficult roles of Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Wagner, as well as verismo, in the most renowned opera houses of Europe and America for more than 30 years, including London’s Covent Garden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, the Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth, La Scala in Milan, the Verona Arena, the Salzburg Festival, and the San Francisco and Chicago Operas. For more than a decade and a half, she was a regular performer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she was a huge success in Wagner roles and as Turandot, among others. Among her world-famous partners were Birgit Nilsson, Edita Gruberová, José Carreras, and Plácido Domingo, while she worked with outstanding conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, James Levine, Georg Solti, Zubin Metha, and Lorin Maazel.

The Kossuth Prize and Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen recipient opera singer has devoted her energy to teaching and passing on the knowledge she had acquired in the world’s leading opera houses for almost two decades. The gala features her students Ildikó Megyimórecz, Natália Tuznik, and Artúr Szeleczki, who will together perform the terzet from Johann Strauss II’s operetta Die Fledermaus, in addition to Marguerite’s Aria from Faust by Gounod (Ildikó Megyimórecz), Rosalinda’s Czardas from Die Fledermaus (Natália Tuznik), and Federico’s romance from L’Arlesiana by Cilea (Artúr Szeleczki).