tenore
Zoltan Megyesi
Zoltán Megyesi was born in 1975 in Szeged, Hungary. He began his studies there under the direction of Valéria Berdál. He graduated from the Szeged Faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and he obtained his PhD in mathematics at the same time.
His repertoire extends from Baroque sacred music and opera to contemporary music, including song cycles by Schubert, Schumann and Britten. He is a specialist in Mozart tenor roles and he is also sought after as the Evangelist in Bach’s passions. In addition to Hungary, he has performed in several European countries, in the USA, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
His stage appearances during the past years include performances conducted by Ádám Fischer (Monteverdi: Tancredi e Clorinda, Haydn: Salve Regina, Mozart: Ascanio in Alba – in the Auditorium of the Danish Radio), Helmuth Rilling (Händel: Messiah, J. S. Bach: St Matthew Passion, etc.) and Iván Fischer (Philharmonie Köln, Brugge Concertgebouw and Wiener Konzerthaus). In 2018 he made his concert debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and at the Opéra of Nice.
He was one of the winners of the competition organized in Verona for the roles in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in 2007 and of the International Sacred Music Competition in Rome in 2011. His performance as Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Budapest Spring Festival in 2006 received warm reviews. His operatic roles also include Tamino (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte), Tito (Mozart: La clemenza di Tito), Count Almaviva (Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Orfeo (Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice) and Pylades (Gluck: Iphygenie auf Tauris). He had a remarkable success as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in New York in 2011 and in 2017.
Zoltan Megyesi has been collaborating with the Baroque Collegium 1685 since the beginning of the ensemble. He has performed, among others, solo tenor parts in works by Bach and Telemann and created the character of Jonathan in the “Saul” Oratorio by G.F. Handel.