TÜNDE FRANKÓ

Soprano

Tünde Frankó is one of the leading sopranos of Hungarian State Opera.

She started her musical studies when she was seven, first to play the violin. She graduated from the Szeged faculty of Liszt Ferenc Music Academy as a singer in 1987. Her professors were: Valéria Berdál, György Sinkó, Kálmán Gyimesi.

In 1991/92 she reached the finals at Pavarotti Singers Competition.
She became a member of Szeged State Theatre in 1989.
She sang Lauretta at the Volksoper in Vienna, Mimi in Bregenz.
From 1994 she has been a member of the Hungarian State Opera.
She won 4 Hungarian artistic prizes in 1995 and she participated at the Bodensee Festival.
After the birth of her child, she performed as Susanna in the State Opera.
In the season 98/99 she sang Mimi, Butterfly, Margit, Michaela, Fiordiligi, Rosalinda, Tatjana and Liú in the Hungarian State Opera.
In the year 2000 she participated on a tour to Japan with Butterfly, and on an opera gala in Münich.
She was invited to Hungary’s biggest open-air opera festival to Szeged to take part in Offenbach’s Hoffmann’s tales.
In the past years she participated in four world premieres of Hungarian contemporary operas in Budapest
She sang Mimi on the 2001 Budapest Spring Festival, and Butterfly also in March in the Budapest State Opera.
She sang a succesful concert with José Cura in Budapest, June 2001.
She sand Rosalinda in Japan on the tour of the Hungarian State Opera 2002
In 2002 she will sing Hong-Kong, Japan, Münich among others.

REPERTOIRE:

Opera:  

La Bohéme – Mimi

Le nozze di Figaro - Susanna

Madama Butterfly

Faust - Margarita

Balassa: Karl und Anna - Anna

Gianni Schicchi – Lauretta

Bizet: Carmen – Michaela

Mozart: Cosí fan tutte – Fiorlidigi

Balassa: Karl and Anna

Szokolay: Szávitri

Anegin – Tatjana

Handel: Agrippina – Poppea

Mozart: Zauberflöte – Pamina

Puccini: Angelica sister

Turandot – Liu

Leoncavallo: Bajazzos – Nedda

Offenbach: Hoffmann’s tales

Puccini: Manon Lescaut – Manon

Petrovics: I., IX. kantáta

Dubrovay: The Ransom

Oratorios:  

Bach: Weinahts-Oratorium

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Händel: Messiah

Liszt: Christus

Mozart: Requiem

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Rossini: Stabat Mater

La Petite Messe Solenelle

Magnificat by Sammartini, Bach, Albinoni

Caldara, Vivaldi

Donizetti: Libera me

Cavalieri: lamentationes

Mendelssohn: Duette

Honegger: Jean d’Arc

 

 

 

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