Andrea Rost

Andrea Rost gained identification in the 1990s among the world’s leading new lyric sopranos. Her family members was not specifically musical, but, she says, she was generally performing. She copied what she noticed on the air and joined the institution chorus. She was 16 when she initial went to the opera, on the Budapest Opera Home. The fare was Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. She was entranced with the mixture of music, tale, and dramatic staging and stated, “Oh my God, I must do that.” She examined voice, then got into the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Her instructor was Teacher Zsolt Bende. He created in her a solid bel canto technique, and from her remarks within a United kingdom Classic FM Newspaper interview, certainly retains a location as a reliable consultant. She credits, furthermore to Prof. Bende, the tips of friendly founded singers, specifically Leo Nucci, Renato Bruson, and Mirella Freni. She phoned Freni during an engagement in the Salzburg Event, seeking advice, as well as the popular soprano asked her over to get a chat. Rost remembers specifically Freni’s remark that she should “…constantly smile if you are singing. Not together with your encounter, but inside. This can help you find the appropriate color for your tone of voice.” Rost graduated through the Budapest Academy in 1987. She was involved that year from the Budapest Opera, debuting as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. From 1991 to 1996, she was an associate of the business from the Vienna Condition Opera. There, she sang such Mozartean and bel canto tasks as Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Rosina (Barber of Seville), Adina (L’Elisir d’amore), Pamina (Magic Flute), Susanna (Relationship of Figaro), Gilda (Rigoletto), and Lucia di Lammermoor. Throughout that period, she also sang Gilda in a fresh creation at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, carried out by Ricardo Muti, that was documented live by Sony Traditional, beginning an effective relationship with this company. Rost has generated a solid operatic career. As well as the Vienna Condition Opera and La Scala, she’s sung in the Opéra Country wide de Paris, the Zurich Opera, the Royal Opera Home, Covent Backyard (where she starred in the initial modern efficiency of Donizetti’s long-lost opera Elisabetta beneath the baton of Carlo Rizzi), the Metropolitan Opera in NY, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as the Teatro Comunale of Florence. She’s also essayed the world of period efficiency, singing the function of Drusilla in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. For the concert stage, Rost provides sung in Robert Schumann’s Die Paradies und perish Peri in Salzburg, Zurich, and Graz under Harnoncourt, and sang an application of Mozart and operetta arias on the Hollywood Dish in LA. After her appearance in Rigoletto on Sony Classical, she released her first single Compact disc on that label, a assortment of arias known as Le Delizie Dell’amor, in 1997. She obtained outstanding reviews on her behalf involvement in what provides swiftly become a recommended documented edition of Lucia di Lamermoor, executed by Sir Charles Mackerras in the conductor’s very own scholarly model, using Donizetti’s first manuscript (as opposed to the frequently changed and error-ridden regular editions) as its supply. In 2000, she released her second single record, Amore II. Since that time, she’s also documented Hungarian folk tunes and several sound books.