Ambrus Makkos

Repertoire

Preliminary

• Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge Op.121.No.1. O Tod, o Tod, wie bitter 

Semi-Final 

• Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Kagdá by zhíz’n’ damáshnim krúgam (Onegin)
• Haydn: La scuola de' gelosi - Dice benissimo (Lumaca)

Final

• Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust - Serenade de Mephistopheles
• Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - I Got Plenty O' Nuttin (Porgy)

Biography

Born in 1994, the young baritone started his musical studies in a private Form, then, between 2015 and 2018, he was admitted to the Szent István Király Vocational Music School for a post-maturity program in singing. Since 2018, Ambrus Makkos studies classical singing performance at the Béla Bartók Faculty of Music of the University of Szeged.

In October 2017, he took part in the master course of Katalin Halmai and in March 2019 in that by Éva Marton.

He gained professional experiences in the following productions so far:

2015 – Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore – chorus singer – Royal Palace of Gödöllő

2017 – Puccini – Madama Butterfly – Yakuside – Müpa

2018 – László Király – Devictus vincit – Mindszenty-oratory world première – Interrogator – Votive Church, Szeged

2018 – L. Spohr – Die letzten Dinge oratorio – bass soloist – Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest

2018 – Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro – Antonio – National Theatre of Szeged

2019 – László Molnár – Május – Csibész, Donizetti – I pazzi per progetto – Frank – National Theatre of Szeged

2019 – Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana – chorus singer, Leoncavallo – Pagliacci– chorus singer – National Theatre of Szeged

2019 – L. Spohr – Die letzten Dinge oratorio – bass soloist – Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Bécs

2019 – Puccini – Il tabarro – Talpa, Gianni Schicchi – Guccio – National Theatre of Szeged

2020 – Wagner – Tannhäuser – chorus singer – National Theatre of Szeged

Ambrus Makkos is an accurate, meticulous, determined, calm, and punctual person. His strengths are the ability of adaptation, the exaction towards music and the singing technique, the ability to learn a huge amount of information in a short time, and the team spirit. He speaks English at intermediate, German, and Italian at elementary level.