Éva Marton (born 18 June 1943) is a Hungarian dramatic

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, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of

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's ''

Turandot ''Turandot'' ( ; see #Origin and pronunciation of the name, below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it ...

'' and ''

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

'', and

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ian roles.

Vocal training and early years

Marton was born in

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, where she studied voice at the

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Academy. She made her professional debut as Kate Pinkerton in

's ''

Madama Butterfly ''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story " Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Lu ...

'' at Hungary's

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summer festival. At the Hungarian State Opera, she made her debut as Queen of Shemaka in Rimsky-Korsakov's '' The Golden Cockerel'' in 1968. In 1972, she was invited by

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to make her debut as the Countess in ''

The Marriage of Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienn ...

'' at the Frankfurt Opera. That same year, she sang Matilde in

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's ''

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'' in

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, conducted by

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. She also returned to Budapest to sing Odabella in

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's ''

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''. In 1973, Marton made her debut at the

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in Puccini's ''

''. In 1977, she sang at the

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, in the role of the Empress in

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's ''

Die Frau ohne Schatten ' (''The Woman without a Shadow''), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917. When it premiered at the V ...

'', and made her

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debut in the title role of Verdi's ''

Aida ''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 De ...

''. In 1978, Marton made her debut at

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as Leonora in Verdi's '' Il trovatore''. She debuted at the

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in 1979 as Maddalena in Giordano's ''

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/ref> In 1981, she performed at the Munich Opera Festival in the title role of ''

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'' by Richard Strauss with

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conducting. She sang the role of Leonore in

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's ''

Fidelio ''Fidelio'' (; ), originally titled ' (''Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Opus number, Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of ...

'' in 1982 and 1983, both performances conducted by

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Wagnerian roles

In 1976, she made her

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debut in New York in the role of Eva in

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's ''

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditio ...

''. At the

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she sang both Elisabeth and Venus in ''

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'' in 1977–1978. In 1982, Marton performed the role of Elisabeth in ''Tannhäuser'' at the Metropolitan Opera. Of that performance, ''

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'' wrote:

The arrival on the scene of a fully matured Wagnerian singer is always good news, however long we must wait between dispatches from the front. The news today is that Eva Marton has arrived. The Hungarian artist, portraying Elisabeth for the first time with the Metropolitan Opera in Monday night's ''Tannhäuser'', showed that she has the vocal and temperamental qualities to become the opera world's next important dramatic soprano. She may, in fact, already be there. The timbre is right, the sheer staying power is impressive and the instincts are those of a born actress.

Marton later became a frequent interpreter of the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's ''

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''. Between 1982-1985, she performed the role in the Ring cycle with the San Francisco Opera. A decade later she performed in the complete

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-led Ring cycle at the

in 1996. In 1998, she appeared in a new production of ''

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'' at the Hamburg State Opera, portraying Ortrud.

Turandot

Marton first sang the title role of Puccini's last opera ''

'' at the Vienna State Opera in 1983. It became a role with which she has been closely identified. Since 1983, she has performed the role over a hundred times including at the

, Arena di

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under

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(in 1983), Barcelona, and Houston Grand Opera. She has also portrayed Turandot in six television and video productions, including a

production directed by

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featuring

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as Calaf, a Metropolitan Opera production created by

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featuring

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as Calaf, and a production designed by

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filmed at the San Francisco Opera with Michael Sylvester as Calaf. She also sang the role at the Aurora Opera House in

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. She has recorded Turandot twice, conducted first by

(again with Carreras as Calaf) and later Roberto Abbado (with Ben Heppner as Calaf).

Recent years

Marton's new roles in this millennium include Isolde in Wagner's ''

Tristan und Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'' (''Tristan and Isolde''), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance ''Tristan and Iseult'' by Gottfried von Stras ...

'' at Hamburg State Opera in 2000, and Kundry in ''

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'' in Barcelona and Lisbon in 2001. In 2003, she sang the English-language role of Morgan Le Fay in the premiere of Isaac Albeniz's ''

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'' in Madrid. In 2006 and 2007, she performed in a concert version of Giordano's ''

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'' at the

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, in '' Elektra'' by

at the

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, and in Janáček's ''

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'' in Hamburg, in the role of the Kostelnicka.Eva Marton - Calendar
/ref> She retired from the operatic stage after performing the role of Klytemnestra in ''Elektra'' in Barcelona (Spain) in February and March 2008. However, she sang Klytämnestra in a staged performance of ''Elektra'' in Grand Théâtre de Genève in November 2010. She also keeps a small studio at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Marton received the Persian Golden Lioness Lifetime Achievement Award in operatic music from The World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media - WAALM in 2006.

Videography

* '' The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala'', Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4538, 2009

Official Opera Gala and Concert Recordings

1./

e le grandi voci festeggiano l’Arena – La grande notte a Verona (8. VIII. 1988. Arena di Verona) CD POLYPHON 836 447 Live. José Carreras & Éva Marton,

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, Ghena Dimitrova, Ileana Cotrubas, Orquesta Sinfonica di Madrid, Conductors: José Collado, Carlo Franci 2./ Le donne di Puccini – Puccini-Gala (12. XI. 1994. München) CD: NIGHTINGALE CLASSICS 7063197 Live. Éva Marton, Gabriela Beňačková, Edita Gruberova, Gwyneth Jones Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Conductor: García Navarro 3./ Let's Save the Liszt Academy! HUNGAROTON HCD 31841 Live. (Concerts in Budapest / Hungarian State Opera, Franz Liszt Academy of Music/, 1995, 1997, 1998) Éva Marton, Éva Pánczél, Bartók String Quartet, Conductor: Ervin Lukács, János Kovács

Opera, Concert: Video and DVD

1./ Isaac Albéniz: Merlin – Morgan le Fay (2003. Madrid, Teatro Real – Live World Premier) VHS and DVD BBC / Opus Arte B0001RVRX6 Live. Éva Marton, Carol Vaness, Stuart Skelton, David Wilson-Johnson Conductor: José de Eusebio, Production: John Dew 2./ Erkel: Bánk bán – Gertrudis (2001, Movie Film) FHS and DVD - Warner Music Hungary 0927 44606 Andrea Rost, Éva Marton, Atilla Kiss B., Dénes Gulyás, Lajos Miller, Sándor Sólyom-Nagy, Attila Réti, Kolos Kováts Orchestra for Hungarian Millennium, Hungarian National Chorus, Honvéd Male Chorus, - Conductor: Tamás Pál, Production: Csaba Káel, Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond 3./ Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier – Maddaléna (1985. Milano, Teatro alla Scala) VHS and DVD: Warner Vision NVC Arts 3984 26655-2 Live. Éva Marton, José Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli Conductor:

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, Production: Lamberto Puggelli 4./ Almicare Ponchielli: La Gioconda – Gioconda (1986, Wien, Staatsoper) VHS ARTHAUS 100 232 (PAL), DVD ARTHAUS 100 233 Live. Éva Marton, Plácido Domingo, Ludmilla Semtschuk, Matteo Manuguerra, Margarita Lilowa, Kurt Rydl Conductor:

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, Production / Bühnenbild / Kostüme: Filippo Sanjust 5./ Giacomo Puccini: Tosca – Tosca (1984, Arena di Verona) VHS and DVD: NVC Arts 4509 99219-2 Live. Éva Marton, Giacomo Aragall, Ingvar Wixell Conductor:

Daniel Oren Daniel Oren (Hebrew: דניאל אורן; born 25 May 1955) is an Israeli conductor. Biography Daniel Oren was born in Jaffa, Israel. His paternal grandfather, a Muslim from the prominent Sikseck family who was married to a Jewish woman, rescue ...

, Production: Sylvano Bussotti 6./ Giacomo Puccini: Tosca – Tosca (1985, Sydney, Opera House) VHS and DVD: KULTUR VIDEO 1213 (NTSC) Live. Éva Marton, Lamberto Furlan, John Shaw Conductor: Alberto Erede, Production: John Copley 7./ Giacomo Puccini: Turandot - Turandot (1983, Wien, Staatsoper) VHS and DVD: Arthaus Musik 107319 Live. Éva Marton, José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli Conductor:

, Production: Harold Prince 8./ Giacomo Puccini: Turandot - Turandot (1987, New York, Metropolitan Opera House) VHS and DVD: DG UCBG 1007; DG 073 058-9 Live. Éva Marton, Plácido Domingo, Leona Mitchell, Paul Plishka Conductor:

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, Production / Set designer:

9./ Giacomo Puccini: Turandot - Turandot (1993, San Francisco, War Memorial Opera House) VHS and DVD: ARTHAUS 100 088 (PAL) Live. Éva Marton, Lucia Mazzaria, Michael Sylvester, Kevin J. Langan Conductor:

Donald Runnicles Sir Donald Cameron Runnicles (born 16 November 1954) is a Scottish conductor, known for his Romantic symphonic and operatic repertoire, especially Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Anton Bruckner. With a career that has spanned ...

, Production and Design: David Hockney, Stage Director: Peter McClintock 10./ Richard Strauss: Elektra - Elektra (1989, Wien, Staatsoper) VHS and DVD ARTHAUS 100 016; ARTHAUS 100 049 Live. Eva Marton, Cheryl Studer, Brigitte Fassbaender, James King, Franz Grundheber Conductor:

Claudio Abbado Claudio Abbado (; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharm ...

, Production: Harry Kupfer 11./ Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten – Färberin (1992, Salzburger Festspiele) VHS and DVD: DECCA 071 425-9 Live. Cheryl Studer, Éva Marton, Andrea Rost, Elizabeth Norberg Schulz, Marjana Lipovšek, Thomas Moser, Herbert Lippert, Robert Hale, Bryn Terfel Conductor: Sir

Georg Solti Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-servi ...

, Production: Götz Friedrich 12./ Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore - Leonora (1988, New York, Metropolitan Opera House) VHS and DVD DG 073 002-9 (NTSC) Live. Éva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Jeffrey Wells Conductor:

, Production: Fabrizio Melano 13./ Richard Wagner: Lohengrin - Elsa (1986, New York, Metropolitan Opera House) VHS and DVD: DG 073 4176; DG 6727 Live. Éva Marton, Leonie Rysanek, Peter Hofmann, Leif Roar, Anthony Raffell, John Macurdy Conductor:

, Production: August Everding 14./ Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser – Elisabeth (1982, New York, Metropolitan Opera House) VHS and DVD: DG 073 4171; DG B 0006580-09 Live. Richard Cassilly, Eva Marton, Bernd Weikl, Tatiana Troyanos, John Macurdy Conductor:

, Production:

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15./ Éva Marton in Concert - 20. Anniversary Gala Concert - 3. IX. 1988. Budapest, Congress Center -MTV Live. Éva Marton, Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Julius Rudel

Opera Gala Video and DVD

1./New York, Metropolitan Opera House – Centennial Gala 1983. 10. 22.) VHS and DVD: DG 001326309 Live. Éva Marton: G. Puccini: Turandot – Turandot „In questa reggia…” Cond.: James Levine 2./ José Carreras e le grandi voci festeggiano l’Arena – La grande notte a Verona (1988. 08. 08., Arena di Verona) VHS and DVD: Arthaus Music 101403 Live. Éva Marton: G. Puccini: Manon Lescaut – Act IV. Aria of Manon Lescaut

References

External links

Two Interviews with Eva Marton
by Bruce Duffie, October 28, 1982 & January 23, 1992 {{DEFAULTSORT:Marton, Eva 1943 births Living people Hungarian operatic sopranos Singers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian women opera singers 21st-century Hungarian women opera singers Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni