Gabriella Szalai-Illés

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

• Kodály: Hungarian Folkmusic for Voice and Piano Volume 10. No.55. A csitári hegyek alatt / Under the mountains of Csitár 

Semi-Final

• Mozart: Così fan tutte - Temerarì ... Come scoglio (Fiorfiligli)
• Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur - Io son l'umile ancella (Adriana)

Final

• Puccini: Manon Lescaut - In quelle trine morbide (Manon)
• Verdi: Il trovatore - Tacea la notte placida ... Di tale amor (Leonora)

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.