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Ildikó Megyimórecz was born in Pécs to a family of musicians. After graduating from the Pécs Secondary School of Arts, she was accepted to the classical singing specialisation led by Professor Emeritus Ks. Éva Marton at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. As her student, Ildikó received an opera singer degree summa cum laude. She debuted on the Hungarian State Opera’s stage when she took the female lead in Jenő Kenessey’s opera Az arany meg az asszony (The Gold and the Woman) before she had even graduated (Csaba Káel's production). Additionally, she received a special prize from the Hungarian Academy of Arts at the 3rd International Éva Marton Singing Competition and later won the Wagner Society scholarship to Bayreuth. In 2019, she was awarded the Junior Prima Prize, the most prestigious honor for young Hungarian artists. Her career continues as a soprano soloist at the Hungarian State Opera.

She is regularly invited to numerous large-scale domestic diplomatic and cultural events. During her singing career, she has collaborated with influential artists such as Jonathan Tetelman, Calixto Bieito, René Barbera, Tamás Vásáry, Adam Medveczky or Janos Kovacs. In the autumn of 2024, they performed on stage in Singapore as a partner of Plácido Domingo.

Her repertoire includes: Gräfin (Le nozze di Figaro), Margarethe (Faust) , Manon (Manon Lescaut), Michaela/Frasquita (Carmen), Violetta Valéry (Traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto) , Julia (Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Julia (Gounod: Romeo et Juliette), Musette (La bohéme) , Liu (Turandot) , Belinda (Dido & Aeneas), Serafina (Il Campanello), Salome, Helmwige (Die Walküre), Adél (Die fledermaus)

Ildikó Megyimórecz