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The Hungarian tenor, Gyula Rab, was a member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich for the 2016-2017 season. He is an alumnus of the International Opera School of Royal College of Music in London as a Sir Roger and Lady Carr Soirée d'Or Scholar. He also holds a Master of Music degree from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and was awarded the UNELMA-Dream Scholarship and the Le Meridien Prize by the Ari S Kupsus Salon Concert Society. He is also a recipient of the Independent Opera Postgraduate Voice Fellowship and the International Opera Awards Foundation Bursary. He was a finalist of the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award at the Wigmore Hall in 2015 and was a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Gyula Rab made his professional operatic debut in 2014 with Wrocław Opera in Poland as Louis in Angels in America by Péter Eötvös conducted by the composer himself. Also in this year he was the tenor soloist in Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace at commemoration concert of the outbreak of the World War I with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.
Past engagements include Ferrando in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Tamino in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Achilles in Iphigiénie en Aulide by Gluck and László V. in Erkel’s Hunyadi Laszló at Hungarian State Opera. Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini in Suzhou, China; Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini with Co-Opera, Osroa in Adriano in Siria by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi at the Cadogan Hall, George Frideric Handel's Messiah with Valencia Symphony Orchestra, W.A. Mozart's Requiem with Danubia Symphony, Zoltán Kodály's Psalmus Hungaricus with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alidoro in Orontea at the Spring Festival in Budapest.
Gyula Rab is an esemble member at Staatstheaer am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Germany. For 2018-2019 season his roles there include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte, Don Ottavio in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gonzalve in L’Heure Espagnole by Ravel. He will to make his debut as Tom Rakewell in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake’s Progress under the baton of Barbara Hannigan in May 2019. The European Tour of Equilibrium Young Artists starts in Munich with The Münchner Philharmoniker at Philharmonie im Gasteig. The following venues of the tour with The Ludwig Orchestra include: Philharmonie de Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Kulturpalast Dresden, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. |
