Chamber music, for me, is a personal theatre, where there is no singing partner, no ostentatious decorations or costumes, and the singer – only with his song and his soul – creates such a complex world or entire human fate within a couple of minutes, which otherwise, in the opera, gets constructed in two or three hours and on a thirty-foot stage. When I’m less busy in the theatre, I spend most of my time learning songs. Due to the intimate nature of the genre, in opposition to the opera, it does not need a lot of volume but rather you need to play with timbres and text, in certain meaning it gives the singer a lot more freedom than the opera.

repertoire

assorted songs and song cycles

J. Haydn

W. A. Mozart

L. van Beethoven

G. Rossini
La regata veneziana

G. Donizetti

F. Schubert

V. Bellini

Fanny Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

F. Chopin

R. Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben, Dichterliebe, Liederkreis

C. Alkan
Anciennes mélodies de la synagogue

F. Liszt
Tre sonetti di Petrarca

R. Wagner
Wesendonck Lieder

C. Wieck-Schumann

J. Brahms

M. Mussorgski
Песни и пляски смерти, Детская

P. Tchaikovsky

A. Dvořák
Biblické písně

E. Grieg:

G. Fauré

L. Janáček
Řikadla pro komorní sbor a 10 nástrojů

E. Chausson

J. Hubay

H. Wolf

G. Mahler
Kindertotenlieder

C. Debussy
Ariettes oubliées

R. Strauss
Mädchenblumen, Vier letzte Lieder

A. Schönberg
Brettllieder

A. Zemlinsky
Waldgespräch, Maiblumen blühten überall

C. Ives

S. Rachmaninov

M. Ravel
Shéhérazade, 5 Mélodies populaires grecques

E. Dohnányi
Im Lebenslenz

M. Delage

B. Bartók

Z. Kodály

E. Korngold
Drei Lieder, Shakespeare Songs

A. Berg
7 frühe Lieder

G. Gershwin

G. von Zieritz
Japanische Lieder

F. Farkas
Gyümölcskosár

D. Schostakovich
Сатиры

O. Messaien
Chants de Terre et de Ciel

B. Britten

J. Hubay

G. Kurtág 
József Attila töredékek

J. Decsényi
Régi magyar szövegek

G. Kancheli
Exil

G. Selmeczi
Halott város

J. Widmann
Experiment on a Fugue

L. Gyöngyösi

D. Dinyés
Vita, Libertà-libertà, Új Énekek, Canti senza parole, P.o.E. – Poetry or Epic, easy songs over not an easy subject

Wagner: Im Treibhaus (2013)

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