Opera singer
Born in Gyergyóremete (Remetea), Levente Molnár is well known to both the Munich and Budapest audiences. A member of the Bayerische Staatsoper for years, he has also appeared at both London's Covent Garden and the Wiener Staatsoper.
Levente Molnár was born in Gyergyóremete (Remetea) in 1983. He made his debut at the Hungarian State Opera House in 2004 and has since sung many principal roles here, including Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva, Guglielmo, Figaro, Malatesta (in Juan Pons's debut in the role of Don Pasquale in March 2001), Dandini, Marcello (with Andrea Rost in 2010), Silvio, Escamillo, Onegin and Bagó in John the Valiant. At Müpa Budapest in 2007, he created the leading role in Viktor Ullmann's opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis together with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Iván Fischer. He made it to the finals in his 2007 appearance at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, with Carlo Rizzi conducting. He portrayed Masetto in Don Giovanni at London's Covent Garden, with Antonio Pappano conucting, and made his debut at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper as Ford in Falstaff, under the baton of Stefan Soltész. He has been a member of that opera house since the 2009/10 season, regularly singing there the roles of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore, Marcello in La bohème, the consul Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Peter in Hänsel und Gretel, and the Herald in Lohengrin. He has worked with such conductors as Marco Armiliato, Ascher Fisch, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano and Stefan Soltész.