soprano
Eszter Wierdl won second place at the Salzburg International W.A. Mozart Singing Competition in 1999 before completing her studies in opera singing at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 2002, as a student of Éva Andor and Balázs Kovalik. She regulary takes the stage at concerts at Müpa Budapest, as well as at the summer Wagner in Budapest Opera Festival. She has been singing at the Hungarian State Opera since 1999. Her principal roles include Pamina (The Magic Flute), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Clara (in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg), the Governess (in Britten's The Turn of the Screw), the Bride (in Szokolay's Blood Wedding), Éva (in Die Meistersinger auf Nürnberg), Etelka (in Gyöngyösi's The Nightmare) and Venus (in Ascanio in Alba).