Michael Nagy

Vocal Soloist

MICHAEL NAGY began his musical training in Stuttgart where he studied song creation and Lied interpretation with Irwin Gage and conducting with Klaus Arp and Georg Grün. He was awarded the Schubert Prize at the International Schubert Competition. In 2004, with pianist Juliane Ruf, he won the International Lied Competition in Stuttgart.
He was a member of the Berlin Komische Oper from 2004 to 2006, where he performed as Papageno (The Magic Flute), Sid (Albert Herring), and The Count (The Marriage of Figaro). He moved to the permanent ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera, where, in addition to Papageno and The Count, he sang role debuts as Silvano (A Masked Ball) and Wolfram (Tannhäuser). He has sung Anthony Hope in the musical thriller Sweeney Todd, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Falke in Die Fledermaus.
He has appeared in concerts with ensembles such as the Gächinger Kantorei and the Stuttgart BachCollegium, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. Lieder recitals have taken him to Austria, Italy and Germany. Other concert appearances have been with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Lothar Zagrosek, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphonics and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2007, he debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York (St. Matthew Passion) and worked with Philippe Herreweghe for the first time in Fauré's Requiem.
In 2010, he will make his debut at the Bavarian State Opera Munich in Graf Luna (Palestrina).

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