Kinga Dobay

Mezzossoprano

Kinga Dobay was born in 1975 in Transsylvania. 1994-2004 she studied violin, musical theatre and opera at the Musikhochschule Leipzig. She completed her studies with Julia Hamari, Teresa Berganza, Mya Besselink and since 2006 with Grace Bumbry.

2006 she won the 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the International Voice Competition ’s-Hertogenbosch, 2005 she was Winner of the Zarzuela Prize at Placido Domingos Operalia and Winner of the 2nd Operetta Prize at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition Vienna. She was awarded at the Shizuoka Opera Competition Japan 2005 and won the Orpheus Prize in 2002 and 2005.

Her engagements brought her to the Bregenzer Festspiele, New National Theatre Tokyo, Teatro Real/Madrid, Teatro Catansaro, Teatro Reggio Calabria, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Konzerthaus Berlin, Opera Leipzig, Opera Halle, Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin, Staatsoperette Dresden etc.

She gave her debut as Carmen in 2003 under the button of Yakov Kreizberg. Since than she played this particular role in Italy, Germany and recently with Maestro Myung Whun Chung in Toyama, Japan. At the New National Theatre in Tokyo she sang Orsola in Il campiello by Wolf Ferrari. Francesca Zambello choose her for Anita in Bernstein’s West Side Story at the Bregenzer Festival 2004.

Other performed roles are Boulotte in Bluebeard by Offenbach, 2. Dame in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Suor Zelatrice in Puccinis Suor Angelica, Dodo in Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies, Lola in Kreislers Heute abend: Lola Blau etc. She worked together with conductors like Myung Whun Chung, Yakov Kreizberg, Placido Domingo, Daniele Callegari, Guillaume Tournaire and Shuya Okatsu.

Her following engagements are Carmen in Reggio Calabria and Catansaro, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Symphonic Orchestra Halle and several concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin.

2007 February she will give her debut at the State Opera Prague singing Poulenc’s La voix humaine with Pier Luigi Pizzi as director.