Portrait Michael Nagy

Michael Nagy

Baritone
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General Management

Born in Stuttgart, the baritone with Hungarian roots began his musical career with the Stuttgart Hymnus Chorknaben and studied singing, song composition and conducting with Rudolf Piernay, Irwin Gage and Klaus Arp in Mannheim and Saarbrücken. In master classes he received important impulses from Charles Spencer, Cornelius Reid and Rudolf Piernay, who still accompanies him vocally today.

He has continued to develop his professional skills on important stages around the world: from Wolfram in Tannhäuser (Bayreuth Festival) to Hans Heiling in H. Marschner's opera of the same name at the Theater an der Wien and Stolzius in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten as well as Amfortas in Parsifal (under K. Petrenko) at the Bavarian State Opera, Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) in Baden-Baden and Berlin under Simon Rattle, to Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero in Hamburg and the world premiere of Scartazzini's opera Edward II in Berlin. In the summer of 2021, he took over the role of 'Don Alfonso' in a performance of Cosi fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival at short notice.

From autumn 2022, the artist will expand his professional repertoire, first as Beckmesser in a new production of Wagner's Meistersinger at Oper Frankfurt (Johannes Erath, director, Sebastian Weigle, music director), to return to the Vienna State Opera again as Amfortas (Parsifal) under Philip Jordan and for the first time as Alberich in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen under Franz Welser-Möst. In January he can be seen as the Count (Le Nozze di Figaro) in Toulouse.

Michael Nagy is also in demand worldwide in concert and oratorio. Engagements have taken him to the most internationally renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the BR Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Orchestre de Paris, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and to various festivals, including Schleswig-Holstein and Rheingau, the Salzburg Festival and the Tanglewood Festival (USA), Grafenegg and San Sebastian.

The 2022/23 concert season will again offer great repertoire depth, including a performance of Hans Huber's little-known oratorio Weissagung und Erfüllung under Duncan Ward in Basel, Mahler's 8th Symphony under Vasily Petrenko in London, Brahms Requiem/Schönberg A Survivor from Warsaw with the Copenhagen Philharmonic under Christoph Eschenbach, Zemlinky's Lyric Symphony with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Alexander Liebreich, Schumann's Faust Scenes under Axel Kober at the Audi Summer Concerts and Mahler's Wunderhorn Lieder with the RTVE Orchestra in Madrid.


Further information at www.michaelnagy.net




11. June 2023

Wien, Wiener Staatsoper

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

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18. June 2023

Wien, Wiener Staatsoper

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

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21. June 2023

Wien, Wiener Staatsoper

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

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  • "Nur wenige Jahre nach diesen Werken komponierte Gustav Mahler seine Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, schrieb musikalisch wie auch als Textdichter sich seine von einer Sopranistin am Hoftheater Kassel nicht erwiderten Gefühle von der Seele. Michael Nagy, einer der zurzeit „reifsten“ Baritone und als Wagner-Sänger ebenso gefragt wie als Liedgestalter, begeisterte in den subtilen Schattierungen des Schmerzes, wenn der Schatz Hochzeit macht, wie in der Strahlkraft des Sonnenscheins, mit dem die Welt zwischenzeitlich zu funkeln beginnt. Frappierend vor allem seine natürliche Tongebung: kein manieriert-gewolltes Tönebasteln, kein Schummeln bei Registerwechseln oder aufgedrehtes Forcieren störten den Fluss: klagendes Lied, auffahrende Traumgestalten und Hoffnungsschimmer aus Blütengestöber des Lindenbaums in höchster Konzentration. Ein absolut fesselnder Mittelpunkt eines wundervollen Konzertabends der Bamberger Symphoniker, der auf weitere Entdeckungen neugierig macht!"
  • "From Michael Nagy’s clever, manipulative Ratefreund to Wolfgang Koch’s sonorous Prometheus, this is a top-drawer cast, and all of them sing as if they were expecting to pick up repeat engagements of their roles across the world any day now. Would that they could."
  • "Noseda and his Danish forces offer a thrilling account of this masterpiece, its all-important orchestral detail meticulously realised… as the prisoner, Michael Nagy is alive to every nuance of the role. A thrilling disc, splendidly recorded."



Elisabeth Ehlers

Elisabeth Ehlers

Director, General Management
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Katharina Klapsing

Katharina Klapsing

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