Ferencz - Botond Vizsnyai

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

• Pergolesi: Nina

Final

• Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV 17. - Va tacito e nascosto (Cesare)
• Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 39. No.1. In der Fremde 

The young countertenor was born in 2004 in Cluj-Napoca, the heart of Transylvania. Today, he a student of the Sigismund Toduță High School for Music.

His interest in the opera started at the age of 5 when his grandmother visited with him many performances of the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera. Since then, he regularly visits the Opera. Furthermore, he had the opportunity of going to the Milano Scala for the season-opening performance of Tosca, where he could meet with Plácidó Domingo, Riccardo Chailly, Anna Netrebko, and Francesco Meli.

He received a concert invitation in February from the Rumanian countertenor Cezar Ouatu. During his career so long, he stood on the stage at the 100th-anniversary concert of the Gheorghe Dima Academy for Music and on numerous school concerts.

He took part in the master course of the world-famous Croatian bassist, Boris Martinovich.

His competition results so far are the following:

1^st prize – Rocky Mountain Baroque Music Festival – Canada

1^st prize – King’s Peak International Singing Competition – USA

2^nd prize – Sabin V. Drăgoi International Singing Competition – Timișoara, Rumania – 2020

2^nd prize – XII. Jean Sibelius Festival – Finland – 2020

3^rd prize – XI. Alida Vane International Singing Competition – Latvia – 2020

3^rd prize – Boris Martinovich International Singing Competition