Michael Nagy
Baritone Michael Nagy began his musical career with the Hymnus Boys’ Choir in Stuttgart, later studying singing, lieder interpretation and conducting with Rudolf Piernay, Irwin Gage and Klaus Arp in Mannheim and Saarbrücken. Piernay continues to offer him guidance on questions of vocal technique.
Michael Nagy has continued to develop his repertoire with leading companies: from Wolfram (Tannhäuser) at the Bayreuth Festival to Hans Heiling in Marschner’s opera of the same name at the Theater an der Wien and from Stolzius in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten and Amfortas (Parsifal) under Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera to Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) under Simon Rattle in Baden-Baden and Berlin and the title roles in Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero in Hamburg and Scartazzini’s Edward II in Berlin.
Michael Nagy is also in international demand as a concert artist and in oratorios. Among the major-league orchestras with which he has worked are the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, the Orchestre de Paris, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, while the festivals where he has appeared include the Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Grafenegg and San Sebastián Festivals.
Plans for 2021/22 include Ratefreund in Braunfels’s Die Vögel under Ingo Metzmacher and the Count in David Marton’s new production of Capriccio under Lothar Koenigs at the Bavarian State Opera, Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Vienna State Opera and Creonte in a concert performance of Haydn’s Orfeo ed Euridice in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle – in both cases under Ádám Fischer – as well as Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus) under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider in Lyon.
Concert engagements in 2021/22 include Brahms’s German Requiem under Thomas Hengelbrock in Neumarkt and on a tour of Spain, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Jakob Hrůša, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Ruhr Chorwerk at the Ruhrtriennale and Fauré’s Requiem under Risto Joos in Groningen. Among the world premieres in which he will be taking part are Sciarrino’s Piogge diverse in Dresden, Francesco Filidei’s The Masque of the Red Death in Donaueschingen, with subsequent performances in Cologne and Hamburg and Hèctor Parra’s Wanderwelle in Cologne. He will additionally be appearing in a performance of Hans Huber’s oratorio Weissagung und Erfüllung under Duncan Ward in Basel. Among the song recitals that he has planned are Schubert’s Winterreise with Gerold Huber and Brahms’s Liebeslieder-Walzer with Malcolm Martineau in Copenhagen and a programme of works by female composers that he is presenting with Kit Armstrong.