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Peter Kálmán

Baritone

Peter Kálmán was born in Budapest, Hungary where he began his studies with Anna Pauk.
Later he continued his musical education at the Manhattan School of Music in New York with Gabor Carelli and in Hungary with Prof. Mircea Breazu.
In 1993 he won the first Hungarian Mozart Competition in Budapest and was immediately invited to sing the role of Papageno in the Magic Flute at the Hungarian State Opera. The same house engaged him as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro. In 1996 he took part in a masterclass of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. As a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich he sang in La Finta Semplice, Carmen, La Fanciulla del West, in La Serva Padrona and was given a bursary of the Telemondial Foundation Herbert von Karajan Music Legacy. From 1998-2006 Peter Kálmán was a member of the Zürich Opera Company, where he appeared amongst others in Un Ballo in Maschera (Silvano), L'Elisir d'Amore (Belcore), Tosca(Angelotti), Zauberflöte (Papageno) and worked with the conductors Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnányi, Adam Fischer, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jacques Delacôte, Valery Gergiev, Stephan Soltesz, Vladimir Fedoseyev and Franz Welser-Möst

Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mozart's Mass in C major and Orff's Carmina Burana form part of his concert repertory.At the Hungarian State opera House he sang both Mozart and Rossini Figaro. He sang Malatesta (Don Pasquale) at the Opera Festival in Miskolc (Hungary) where he also performed De Siriex ( Fedora) with Eva Marton and Giuseppe Giacomini in June 2006. In the spring of 2006,2007 he sang Conte ( Le Nozze di Figaro Budapest Spring Festival). In June of the same year he was a guest in the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv performing Papageno in Zauberflöte. After performing several concerts in Chicago he returned to Hungary as a regular guest. Peter Kalman made his debut as Beckmesser in Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Hungarian State Opera House and preparing Alberich in Wagner's Rheingold, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier and the title role in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi for the season 2010.