Andrea Rost

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Andrea Rost

Andrea Rost (born 15 June 1962) is a Hungarian

Opéra National de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera and the Salzburg Festival. The year 1997 saw the release of her first solo recording, Le delizie dell’amor, featuring arias from bel canto, Verdi and Puccini
operas.

Biography

Andrea Rost was born in

Romeo et Juliette
at the Budapest Opera House in 1989.

Two years later, in 1991, she became the soloist of the

Violetta
, as well as at a number of concerts.

She enjoyed a roaring international success at the première of

La Traviata. In 2006 January she performed several times the role of Gilda
at Teatro alla Scala.

At the Salzburg Festival, she performed in several productions, including

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (Xenia, under Claudio Abbado). In L'Opéra Bastille de Paris she sang Susanna, Gilda, Lucia, and Antonia (in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann
).

In the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden she made her debut as Susanna, then went on to sing Violetta with great success. She sang the title role of

) at a concert performance, which was also a world première. In the season of 2003/2004 she has performed as Lucia di Lammermoor.

In

Les dialogues des Carmélites
in June 2006.

In the

Washington Opera, and appeared in the Los Angeles Opera
in the same role. In March 2002, she sang Pamina in Los Angeles. In April 2005 she performed as Pamina several times at Washington.

She is often invited to sing at the New National Theatre Tokyo. At the Budapest Opera, she often sings her favourite roles of Gilda, Lucia di Lammermoor and Violetta.

She sings Mozart arias from Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro on her latest released CD album performing eight different roles. The DVD-version of this recording is available.

In 1997, she won the Liszt Prize and, in 2004, the Kossuth Prize. She has been the holder of the title ”Artist of Merit” since 1999.

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