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The Hungarian soprano, Mária Celeng, studied with Mária Fekete at the Béla-Bartók-Conservatory and with Júlia Pászthy at the Franz-Liszt-Akademie in Budapest as well as with Gabriele Fuchs at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. She participated in master-classes with Éva Marton, László Polgar, Gulyás Dénes, Walter Moore and Nicholas Clapton. She won several international competitions like 'Francisco Viñas' and 'Neue Stimmen' und was a member of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival in 2012.
Since 2008, Mária Celeng has been a regular guest at the Palace of the Arts in Budapest, where she sang e.g. in The Fairy Queen, L’elisir d’amore and Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien as well as Haydn’s Nelson-Messe with the Hungarian National Philharmonia under Zoltán Kocsis. She sang Sandrina in Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa at the Kolibri Theater Budapest and at the Operafestival in Miskolc, where she also performed as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. In 2010, she successfully sang the soprano-Solopart in W.A. Mozart’s Requiem under the baton of Adam Fischer at the National Theater Budapest and returned there for a benefit-concert.
Highlights of recent seasons were e.g her appearance as Araspe in Johann Adolf Hasse’s La Didone abbandonata at the Munich Prinzregententheater and at Versailles Palace and the title role in Janáček's The cunning little vixen under Andreas Kowalewitz at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
Mária Celeng was a member of the opera-studio of the Bavarian State opera in 2013-2014 season and was very successful with various recitals and concerts as well as with e.g. the title role in Mirandolina (studio-production at the Cuvilliétheater) and as Miriam in Zeisls Hiob, for which she achieved the Festival prize of the Bavarian Opera Festival in 2014. Further roles at this company were Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Gianetta in L’elisir d’amore, among others.
Guest-engagements led Mária Celeng in summer 2014 to the Théâtre Antique d' Orange, where she was highly acclaimed in an open-air gala-concert aside José Cura, Ruggero Raimondi, Patricia Cioffi etc. In 2013 she sang Tebaldo in Don Carlo at the Salzburg Festival under the baton of Antonio Pappano and became finalist for Hungary at the competition "Cardiff Singer of the World". In the season before she sang Adele in Die Fledermaus and Iluska in János Vitéz (Pongrác Kacsóh) both at the National Opera in Budapest.
Highlights of the 2014-2015 season, were Mária Celang's highly-acclaimed debut at La Scala di Milano as Drusilla in a new production of L’incoronazione di Poppea (Rinaldo Alessandrini/Robert Wilson) as well as her role-debut as Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at the National State Opera Budapest.
Upcoming projects are a new production of Cosi fan tutte at the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich (Michael Brandstätter/Olivier Tambosi), her return to the National Theatre Budapest for the revival of Cosi fan tutte as well as for a new production of Werther (as Sophie), her return to the Salzburg Festival as well as her return to La Scala di Milano both in 2016.
Future concerts at the Palace of the Arts Budapest will be L’enfant prodigue (Debussy) as well as Haydn’s Schöpfung and J.S. Bach’s Cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, among others. |
