Kováts Kolos
voice - bass
Place of Birth
Mohács
Date of Birth
1948
31 January 1948, Mohács, Hungary
Excellent bassist, equally known as opera and oratorio singer.
He studied at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy as pupil of Ferencné Révhegyi (1966-1970). At the beginning of his career he successfully attended many international contests. He came in first place at the Ferenc Erkel Singing Contest (1970, Budapest) and at the Caruso Singing Contest (1973, Rio de Janeiro). He won second prize at the Tchaikovsky Singing Contest (1974, Moscow).
Since 1970 he’s been private singer of the Hungarian Opera House, but he’s performed in a number of prestigious opera houses, concert halls and festivals. He was on stage in the Milan Scala, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the London Royal Festival Hall, the New York Carnegie Hall and at the Glyndebourne Festival, too. He’s worked with such famous conductors as Antal Doráti, János Ferencsik, Colin Davis, Riccardo Chailly, Lamberto Gardelli, Giuseppe Patane and Seiji Ozawa. In his repertoire we can find almost every significant bass role of the opera history. One of his most memorable performances was the title role of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s castle – he regularly sang it when he was guest performer on the international concert and opera stages.
As role player of oratorios he’s been an important participant of the Hungarian and international concert scene, too. More than twenty disks that were released both in Hungary and abroad record his performances. His major roles are: Sarastro (Mozart: The Magic Flute), Guardiano (Verdi: La forza del destino), Philip the Second (Verdi: Don Carlos), Pagano (Verdi: I Lombardi), Zaccaria (Verdi: Nabucco), Fiesco (Verdi: Simon Boccanegra), Henry the Eighth (Donizetti: Anna Bolena), Gremin (Tchaikovsky: Onegin), Mephisto (Gounod: Faust), Dosifey (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina), Bluebeard (Bartók: Bluebeard’s castle).
Kolos Kováts has been eternal member of the Hungarian State Opera House since 1996. He was awarded with the Liszt Prize (1977), the Mihály Székely Memorial Plaque (1978), the title Merited Artist (1984), the Kossuth Prize (1992), the Medal of Merit of the President of the Hungarian Republic (2003), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (2005) and the Béla Bartók Memorial Award (2006).
Excellent bassist, equally known as opera and oratorio singer.
He studied at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy as pupil of Ferencné Révhegyi (1966-1970). At the beginning of his career he successfully attended many international contests. He came in first place at the Ferenc Erkel Singing Contest (1970, Budapest) and at the Caruso Singing Contest (1973, Rio de Janeiro). He won second prize at the Tchaikovsky Singing Contest (1974, Moscow).
Since 1970 he’s been private singer of the Hungarian Opera House, but he’s performed in a number of prestigious opera houses, concert halls and festivals. He was on stage in the Milan Scala, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the London Royal Festival Hall, the New York Carnegie Hall and at the Glyndebourne Festival, too. He’s worked with such famous conductors as Antal Doráti, János Ferencsik, Colin Davis, Riccardo Chailly, Lamberto Gardelli, Giuseppe Patane and Seiji Ozawa. In his repertoire we can find almost every significant bass role of the opera history. One of his most memorable performances was the title role of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s castle – he regularly sang it when he was guest performer on the international concert and opera stages.
As role player of oratorios he’s been an important participant of the Hungarian and international concert scene, too. More than twenty disks that were released both in Hungary and abroad record his performances. His major roles are: Sarastro (Mozart: The Magic Flute), Guardiano (Verdi: La forza del destino), Philip the Second (Verdi: Don Carlos), Pagano (Verdi: I Lombardi), Zaccaria (Verdi: Nabucco), Fiesco (Verdi: Simon Boccanegra), Henry the Eighth (Donizetti: Anna Bolena), Gremin (Tchaikovsky: Onegin), Mephisto (Gounod: Faust), Dosifey (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina), Bluebeard (Bartók: Bluebeard’s castle).
Kolos Kováts has been eternal member of the Hungarian State Opera House since 1996. He was awarded with the Liszt Prize (1977), the Mihály Székely Memorial Plaque (1978), the title Merited Artist (1984), the Kossuth Prize (1992), the Medal of Merit of the President of the Hungarian Republic (2003), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (2005) and the Béla Bartók Memorial Award (2006).