„soprano”
Gabriella Szalai-Illés
Competition repertoire
Preliminary
Semi-Final
Final
Gabriella graduated in 2016 from the Faculty of Music of the University of Szeged with a master diploma in opera singing where her teacher was prof. dr. Mária Temesi. She is able to sing numerous arias from Bach, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Girdano, Boito, Mascagni, Villa-Lobos and Erkel.
Since 2017, she has been a member of the Hungarian National Choir.
She had been studying and performing the roles of the First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlo, Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca, and Leonora in Verdi’s Il trovatore. She could sing them in numerous stages, such as the Studio Theatre of Szeged, the Opera Festival of Miskolc, or the Opera Festival of Cluj-Napoca.