Who is Michael Nagy?
Michael Nagy
baritone
Michael Nagy was born in Germany to Hungarian parents. He received his first music lessons in Stuttgart with the Hymnus Chorknaben. He then studied singing with Rudolf Piernay, conducting with Klaus Arp and song interpretation with Irwin Gage.
He drew international attention after winning the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst in Stuttgart in 2004.
Michael Nagy
foto: Monika Höfler
Michael Nagy
foto: Monika Höfler
Nagy sang in the ensemble of Komische Oper Berlin, after which he developed further singing leading roles with Oper Frankfurt. His guest appearances have taken him to many prominent opera houses. The baritone also travels all over the world as a concert and oratorio singer.
He has appeared as a soloist with many leading orchestras including the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Salzburger Festspiele.
His first performance in The Concertgebouw was in 2012 in Beethoven’s Mass in C major conducted by Philippe Herreweghe.
Nagy sang in the ensemble of Komische Oper Berlin, after which he developed further singing leading roles with Oper Frankfurt. His guest appearances have taken him to many prominent opera houses. The baritone also travels all over the world as a concert and oratorio singer.
He has appeared as a soloist with many leading orchestras including the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Salzburger Festspiele.
His first performance in The Concertgebouw was in 2012 in Beethoven’s Mass in C major conducted by Philippe Herreweghe.
Bijgewerkt op zondag 13 april 2025