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Baritone

Michele Kalmandy

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From his earliest days it was obvious that Michele Kalmandy is an outstanding musical talent. He has started playing the piano at the age of 6 and soon began to play on the classical guitar as well, followed by experimenting on other instruments too. He was only 24 when he graduated at the G. Dhima Music Academy Cluj-Napoca performing the title role of Verdi&rsquos Nabucco which has since become one of his signature roles. Improving his vocal technique based on the Italian school of singing remained an important part of his daily routine ever since.

His international carrier started with an appearance in Trieste’s Teatro Verdi as Nabucco, resulting in numerous invitations to major opera houses, open air stages and concert halls worldwide such as: Teatro dell’Opera Rome, Teatro di San Carlo Naples, Teatro Massimo Bellini Sicily, Vienna (i.a. Musikverein), Tonhalle Zürich, Salzburger Landestheater, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Aalto Opera Essen, Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm, Göteborg Opera, Minnesota Orchestra Hall, Barbican Center London, Theatre Royal Glasgow, Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Free Trade Hall Manchester, Grand Théatre Bordeaux, Valencia Opera, Teatr Wielki Warsaw, Mikhailovsky Theater Sankt Petersburg, Státní Opera Prague, Perth Concert Hall, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Sala Sao Paulo, New Zealand Opera Wellington, Beijing Opera House, Seoul Opera House, etc. Throughout this time he was always singing a broad repertoire of leading baritone roles at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest as well.

Kalmandy has worked with renowned conductors such as Tiziano Severini, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, János Ács, Ervin Lukács, Christian Badea, Kent Nagano and Pinchas Steinberg to name just a few. The list of directors includes such internationally acclaimed names as: Pier Alli, Hugo De Ana, Gianfranco De Bosio, Beppe De Tommasi, Giorgio Pressburger, Stefano Vizioli, Stefano Poda, Bernard Broca, Antoine Selva, Vaclav Veznik and Olivier Tambosi. His most important partners on stage were, among others: Éva Marton, Edita Gruberova, Hanna Lisowska, Sylvia Sass, Ildikó Komlósi, Norma Fantini, Patrizia Ciofi, Csilla Boross, Erika Miklósa, Placido Domingo, José Cura, Piotr Beczala, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Yevgeny Nesterenko.

For his artistic achievements Kalmandy has been awarded the title Kammersänger at the end of the theatrical season 2012/13. In spring 2015 he has been chosen by the audience as new member of the Society of Immortal Artists which resulted in his footprint being laid in the pavement of the theatre district of Budapest.

Enthusiastic international critical acclaim has followed Kalmandy’s performances from the very first steps on stage up till today accenting his richly coloured voice, brilliant singing technique, charismatic presence and convincing acting that add up to a lasting aesthetic experience imprinted in the memory of his audience.

English

Macbeth

László Hunyadi

Gara Miklós

Nabucco

Tosca

Il Barone Scarpia

Aida

Amonasro

La traviata

Giorgio Germont

The Force of Destiny

Don Carlo di Vargas

The Troubadour

Il Conte di Luna

Don Giovanni

The Sicilian Vespers

Guido di Monforte

Tannhäuser

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Don Carlo (Italian version)

Rodrigo

The Viceroy Bánk

II Endre

Petúr bán

Rigoletto

The Flying Dutchman

Der Holländer

Parsifal

Amfortas

Stiffelio

Stankar

Simon Boccanegra

Salome

Jochanaan

The Rhinegold

Wotan

Othello

Jago

Beatrice of Tenda

Filippo Maria Visconti

Bluebeard's Castle

A kékszakállú herceg

Nozze istriane

Menico

A Masked Ball

Renato / Count Anckarström

The Cloak

Michele

Lucia of Lammermoor

Lord Enrico Ashton

Andrea Chenier

Carlo Gérard

The Vestal Virgin

Cinna

The Will-o-the-Wisps

Guglielmo Wulf

Tiborc

Dialogues of the Carmelites

No role specified

Johan

The Flame

Il marito

Budavári Te Deum

Bass

A German Requiem

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