Hungarian mezzosoprano Ildiko Komlosi after her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest was the absolute winner of the Pavarotti International Competition and debuted in Verdi’s
Messa da Requiem opposite Luciano Pavarotti and under the baton of Lorin Maazel.
She has subsequently started a successful career on the world’s great stages such as Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan in New York , Teatro de La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Covent Garden in London, Wiener Staatsoper, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Semperoper Dresden, Minnesota Opera, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Arena di Verona, Frankfurt Oper, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio in Turin, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona.
She boasts a repertoire spanning from Mozart (Cherubino in
Le nozze di Figaro, Sesto in
La Clemenza di Tito, Dorabella in
Così fan tutte) to Donizetti (Giovanna di Seymour in
Anna Bolena, Sara in
Roberto Devereux, Leonora in
La Favorita, Maffio Orsini in
Lucrezia Borgia), Ponchielli (Laura in
La Gioconda) and Bizet (
Carmen), from Massenet (Charlotte in
Werther), R. Strauss (Octavian in
Der Rosenkavalier and Der Komponist in
Ariadne auf Naxos), Tchaikosvky (
Jeanne d’Arc), Bartók (Judith in
Bluebeard's Castle) to Verdi (Fenena, Amneris, Eboli) and the “verismo” with such operas as Mascagni’s
Cavalleria rusticana (Santuzza) and Cilea’s
Adriana Lecouvreur (Principessa di Bouillon).
Parcticularly appreciated her performances in
Don Carlos,
Tannhäuser (Venus),
Oedipus Rex (Jocaste),
Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira),
La forza del destino (Preziosilla).
Idilko Komlosi collaborated with some of the most important world conductors like Pappano, Fischer, Reck, Colin Davis and the London Symphony , Chailly, Vladimir Jurowski and directors as Wilson e Vick.
Updated in May 2009