He passed away just a few weeks before his 86th birthday István Berczelly Kossuth and Liszt prize winner worthy and excellent artist, Hereditary Member and Master Artist of the Hungarian State Opera, member of the Society of the Immortals – writes on his Facebook page the Hungarian State Opera House.
The short obituary reveals: Berczelly’s vocal studies Peleki Rezső, László Jambor and Miklós Szabo under his direction, and then in 1965 he became a member of the Csokonai Theater in Debrecen, where his first major role was Don Giovanni.
He appeared as a guest at the Opera House in 1968: then he was able to take on the role of Valentin, and his debut was so successful that he became a full member of the company in 1970.
The baritone spent most of the next thirty years of his life between the walls of Andrássy út. However, after his retirement in 2000, he returned to the stage as a guest for another sixteen years.
During his long and Hungary-focused career, he initially wrote lyrical and Verdi he sang baritone roles, and then, as his voice began to change, as András Faragó’s heir, he gradually took over the bass-baritone role, and sometimes even the deep bass role, and became one of the most prominent of his generation Wagner– interprets.
Among his most important performances was Count Luna (And a troubadour), Renato (The masquerade ball), Zechariah (Nabucco), Chief Inquisitor (Don Carlos), Hermann (Tannhäuser), Wotan (The Ring of the Nibelung), Hans Sachs is Pogner (The Nuremberg Masters), Prince Bluebeard (Castle of the Bluebeard Prince) and the role of János Háry.
István Berczelly received numerous awards during his career: in addition to the already mentioned awards, he received the Bartók–Pásztory Award, the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, the Mihály Székely and Oláh Gusztáv memorial plaques, the György Melis Award, and the Mária Sudlik Memorial Award.
The Hungarian State Opera considers the deceased artist to be its own dead, and arrangements for his funeral will be made later.
2024-08-22 06:57:19