Artists

Ágnes Molnár

Ágnes Molnár, a lyrical soprano born in the Csallóköz region, has performed in numerous opera and operetta productions both in Hungary and internationally.

She has appeared in prestigious concert venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, where important excerpts from Aldo Finzi’s rediscovered opera Serenata al vento were presented. She has also performed at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, and at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, where she shared the stage with Andrea Bocelli in works by Puccini and Verdi.

Her name is associated with several contemporary Hungarian and international premieres. These include Zsófia Tallér’s fairy-tale opera Leánder and Lenszirom, in which she performed the role of Lenszirom over multiple seasons. Italian composer Marco Taralli wrote his secular cantata Psalmus pro Humana Regeneratione specifically for her voice. She was also the soprano soloist at the Hungarian premiere of Alexey Rybnikov’s Symphony No. 5, The Resurrection of the Dead.

She has taken part in numerous premieres of contemporary operas, chamber operas, and sacred works, including Béla Faragó’s Metamorphosis, László Dubrovay’s Il Ricatto, Miklós Csemiczky’s Hymni Ambrosiani and Cinque pezzi sacri, as well as Gergely Kesselyák’s Missa Allegra and St. Margaret Mass.

A frequent soloist with Hungary’s leading orchestras—such as the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, and the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra—she has collaborated with renowned conductors including János Kovács, Tamás Vásáry, Gergely Kesselyák, Ádám Medveczky, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Oliver von Dohnányi, Riccardo Frizza, Alessandro Calcagnile, Alessandro Cadario, and Stefan Soltész.

She earned her degree in classical singing at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest as a student of Magda Nádor, and has participated in masterclasses led by Sylvia Sass, Éva Marton, and Júlia Hamari.

She is currently a soloist of the Hungarian State Opera.

Selected roles include:

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Susanna),
The Magic Flute (Pamina),
Don Giovanni (Zerlina);
Puccini: La Bohème (Musetta),
Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta);
Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice (Eurydice);
Menotti: The Telephone (Lucy);
Kacsóh: János vitéz (French Princess);
Orff: Carmina Burana

Máté Fülep

He began his studies in his hometown at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music, where he also graduated in cello performance, and later earned his degree as a classical singer and vocal teacher at the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen. From 2005, he was a member of the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen for six years, where his solo career also began. His first major role was Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, in which he made his debut simultaneously at the National Theatre of Szeged and at the Royal Palace of Gödöllő.

He graduated from the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen in 2009 as a classical singer and vocal teacher. During his university years, he had already joined the company of the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen as a soloist. He later continued his studies at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

Following his studies in Hungary, he further trained at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where in 2011 he performed the title role in Don Giovanni at the Schouwburg Theatre. In 2013, he was invited to the Bartók Plus Opera Festival, where he performed the roles of Frank/Fritz in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt. Later, as a recipient of the Annie Fischer Scholarship, he gave several song recitals, among which his performance of Schubert’s Winterreise stands out.

He made his debut at the Hungarian State Opera in September 2015 as Eustachio in Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Viva la Mamma). Since then, audiences have seen him in numerous roles, including Dancaïre (Carmen by Bizet), Jake (Porgy and Bess by Gershwin), Papageno (The Magic Flute by Mozart), Chichibio (The Goose of Cairo by Mozart), Schaunard (La Bohème by Puccini), Agatha (Viva la Mamma by Donizetti), and Christiano (Un ballo in maschera by Verdi). In 2018, he achieved great success at the Armel Opera Competition, performing the baritone roles in Péter Eötvös’s opera Lady Sarashina at the MuTh Theatre in Vienna.

As a concert singer, he is a regular performer with the Hungarian Radio Art Ensembles, the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, and the Capella Savaria Baroque Orchestra. A highlight of his career was his participation in the Hungarian premiere of Daniel Schnyder’s The Revelation of St. John in spring 2020 at Müpa Budapest, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. On November 4, 2022, Hungary’s National Day of Mourning, he appeared as a soloist with the Hungarian Radio Art Ensembles.