7 divas: Ildikó Komlósi

Over recent decades, Ildikó Komlósi had the greatest international career among Hungarian mezzo-sopranos. But she has also been singing on the stages of the Hungarian State Opera for 40 years now, since February 1983. She received the title of Chamber Singer in 2016, followed by a Kossuth Prize, and only counting her performances at our theatres, she has appeared in 250 shows in 23 different roles at the time of writing these lines. So she has quite the selection to pick from when she looks back at the past four decades. We can expect a special programme with an extremely personal atmosphere, and the only thing that stops us from calling it “unique” is that there will be three shows of it in total…