„soprano”
Andrea Brassói-Jőrös
Competition repertoire
Preliminary
- Bizet: Carmen - C'est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire ... Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (Micaëla)
Semi-Final
- Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono i bei momenti (La Contessa d'Almaviva)
- Puccini: Sour Angelica – Senza Mamma (Angelica)
Final
- Verdi: Il Trovatore – Tacea la notte placida … Di tale amor (Leonora)
- Gounod: Faust - O Dieu que de bijoux! ... Ah je ris de me voir si belle (Marguerite)
Brassói-Jőrös Andrea
Andrea Brassói-Jőrös started her musical studies at the Viski Arts School at the age of 5 with the piano where her teacher was Katalin Czébely. Parallel to this, she started to learn folk song singing under the direction of Eszter Pál. During her childhood years, she was regularly a contestant of folk song singing competitions, where she gained outstanding results. From 2006, she continued her studies with voice and piano in Debrecen, at the Kodály Zoltán Music Vocational High School under the direction of Gabriella Magyar and Ildikó Sőrés. In 2014, she received her bachelor’s diploma from the Faculty of Music of the University of Debrecen. Between 2014 and 2016, she studied opera singing at masters’ level, at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music where her teachers were Júlia Pászthy and András Almási-Tóth.
Andrea took part in master courses by Magda Nádor, Timothy Bentch, Júlia Hamari, Jevgenyij Nyeszterenko, Andrea Rost, Errico Fresis and Francesco Torrigianni. She cooperated with outstanding artists, conducters and composers such as György Kurtág, Péter Eötvös, Gergely Vajda, András Keller, Kálmán Szennai, Ádám Medveczky, Péter Oberfrank, István Dénes, Zoltán Rácz, Zoltán Jeney, Gábor Alszászy and Gábor Csalog.
During her career so far, she was honored with various awards: In 2010 and 2016, she received the József Gregor Special Award of the József Simándy International Singing Competition, a shared 2nd prize of the Éva Andor Singing Competition, and a special award for the best performance of a Mozart aria, the 1st prize of the Elizabeth Házy Talent Spotter Singing Competition and the main award of the Armel Opera Festival.
She participated in excellent productions, such as the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the Csokonai National Theatre in the season 2013/2014, Giulia in Rossini’s The Silken Ladder opera exam at the Liszt Academy’s Solti Hall in 2015. In 2016, also in the frame of an opera exam, she sang the role of Iolanta in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. She received her diploma with the role of Titania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was a co-production of the Liszt Academy and the Hungarian State Opera House.
In 2017, she took part in numerous performances, of which contemporary concerts played a prominent role, such Kurtág’s Scenes from a Novel which was organized in the frame of the series called Day of Listening by the Concerto Budapest or Kodály’s Te Deum in cooperation with the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra Debrecen. She was also a soloist of master courses for conductors in the Budapest Music Center and she was a performer at concerts abroad.
In May 2018, she sang in Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner the role of Leonora which was a joint production of the Liszt Academy and the Hungarian State Opera House.
In the season of 2019/2020, she debuted in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking as Jade Boucher and performed La Virtú in the unusual version of The coronation of Poppea by Monteverdi and Máté Bella in the Bánffy Hall of the Eiffel Art Studios.
