Andrea Rost
Andrea Rost graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. In 1991, she became the soloist of the Staatsoper in Vienna, where she sang all her major roles. She enjoyed a roaring international success at the première of Rigoletto at La Scala in 1994, where she had been invited by Riccardo Muti, and she has been a regular guest singer there ever since. In 1995 she sang Pamina at the première of Zauberflöte at the night of the season at La Scala to great acclaim. These roles were followed by Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Violetta in Verdi’s Traviata. In 2006 January she performed several times the role of Gilda at Teatro alla Scala. At the Salzburg Festival, she perfomed in several productions, including R. Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten (Voice of the Falcon, under Georg Solti), Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione de Poppea (Drusilla, under Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Verdi’s Traviata (Violetta, under Riccardo Mutti), and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (Xenia, under Claudio Abbado). In L' Opéra Bastille de Paris she sang Susanna, Gilda, Lucia, and Antonia (in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann). In the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden she made her debut as Susanna, then went on to sing Violetta with great success. She sang the title role of Donizetti’s Elisabeth at a concert performance, which was also a world première. In the season of 2003/2004 she has performed as Lucia di Lammermoor. In Teatro Real Madrid she sang the role of Blanche of Poulenc Les dialogues des Carmélites in June 2006. In the United States, she has performed at the Chicago Lyric Opera several times, singing Zerlina, Gilda, Violetta, and Giulietta (Bellini: I Capuletti e i Montecchi), in October 2005 she performed as Micaela. She made her debut in the Metropolitan Opera, New York in 1996 as Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, later appearing there as Gilda, Lucia, and Violetta as well. Last time in April 2006 she sang Susanna at the Metropolitan. She sang Antonia at the Washington Opera, and appeared in Los Angeles in the same role. In March 2002, she sang Pamina in Los Angeles. In April 2005 she performed as Pamina several times at Washington.
Andrea Rost performed with Zoltán Kocsis, Balázs Dongó Szokolay and Mátyás Bolya their new Bartók/Kodály crossover program and the Pannonian Songs on the 29th of June 2011 in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, which was the official closing ceremony of the hungarian EU-presidency.
She is the holder of the title „Artist of Merit”, in 1997, she won the Liszt Prize, in 2003 she won the Prima Primissima Prize and in 2004, the Kossuth Prize.