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EMŐKE BARÁTH
Soprano
Bio
Past. Present. Future.
Hungarian soprano Emőke Baráth began her musical education studying the piano and the harp. She began singing at the age of 18 following the teaching of József Hormai and Katalin Szőke and then Professor Júlia Pászthy at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. During the 2011/2012 school year, she also studied at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy. In 2009, she received the third prize at the 44th Anton Dvorak International Competition (Czech Republic). In 2011, she won the First Prize and the award of the Public at the Second International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera in Innsbruck (Austria). The same year, she won the Grand Prix of Verbier Festival Academy (Switzerland). She took part in several master classes with, among others, Barbara Bonney, Kiri Te Kanawa, Stephen Stubbs, Deborah York. Early on, as a student she was already invited to perform as a soloist at many festivals and venues as famous as the Müpa (Budapest, Hungary) and the Hungarian State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Opéra Royal de Versailles in France and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland; the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam, the Braunschweig Staatstheater, and the Brandenburger Theater in Germany; the Concert Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Russia.
The late Alan Curtis was one of the first conductors to discover her talent and he gave her the opportunities to sing in prestigious productions with works by Händel – for example, Giulio Cesare (role of Sesto, alongside Karina Gauvin and Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with a recording by Naïve), Admeto (role of Antigona), Amadigi di Gaula (role of Oriana), Arianna in Creta (role of Alceste), in prestigious venues such as Theater an der Wien, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid or Théâtre des Champs-Élysées,Paris). Händel takes a major role in her repertoire: she sang The Messiah (Detroit Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Nathalie Stutzmann conducting), Almirena in Rinaldo (Il Pomo d’Oro and Riccardo Minasi), Armindo in Partenope (Il Pomo d’Oro and Maxym Emelyanychev, with a recording by Erato-Warner Classics), Morgana in Alcina (Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone, with Inga Kalna and Philippe Jaroussky) and Asteria in Tamerlano (Les Ambassadeurs and Alexis Kossenko). In April 2014, she sang the soprano part in Duello Amoroso, a pasticcio after Händel, with Nathalie Stutzmann conducting the ensemble Orfeo 55 at the Bordeaux Opera (with Jean-Louis Grinda as stage director).
Emőke Baráth regularly sings Bach’s masterpieces: Mass in B minor (Les musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski), Saint Matthew Passion (Liverpool Royal Philharmonic with Nathalie Stutzmann), Christmas Oratorio (successively with the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra and the French ensemble Accentus conducted by Laurence Equilbey). She also sang cantatas with Accademia Bizantina conducted by Andreas Scholl (Festival de Beaune).
She is also particularly in demand for the composers of the Seicento: she was the title-role in Elena by Cavalli (Cappella Mediterranea conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, with Jean-Yves Ruf as stage director – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Romilda in Xerse by the same composer (Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, with a staging by Guy Cassiers – Lille Opera, Théâtre de Caen, Theater an der Wien). Regarding Monteverdi, she sang the title-role of L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Innsbruck Festival and at MÜPA (Budapest), and Euridice in L’Orfeo (Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, Claus Guth as stage director). She sang Monteverdi’s Selva Morale e Spirituale with Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Pablo Heras Casado. In 2016 at Budapest Spring Festival she sang the title role of Pietro Antonio Cesti’s Orontea with the ensemble Aura Musicale (musical director: Balázs Máté). In 2017 she sang the title role in Francesco Cavalli’s Hipermestra (Orchestra of the age of Enlightenment, William Christie, staging by Graham Vick). In 2017, she made her Carnegie Hall debut with Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra performing a mostly Seicento love duet program with Italian mezzo-soprano Giuseppina Bridelli. She sang the title role of Doriclea by Alessandro Stradella on a recording and on a concert in Rome at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra and Andrea de Carlo.
Emőke Baráth is more and more in demand in Mozart’s works: she was a successful Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski, with director Felix Breisach), Tamiri in Il Re Pastore (Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and Gábor Takács-Nagy – Verbier Festival), Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Despina in Così Fan Tutte (Hungarian State Opera). In 2016, she sang the Great Mass in C minor on three occasions: with the Bergen Philharmonic and the São Paolo Symphony Orchestra (soprano 2 solo part), and with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (soprano 1 solo).
Emőke Baráth’s repertoire is particularly wide: she sang Mahler’s Symphony N°2 with the Orquesta de Valencia and Yaron Traub, Scylla et Glaucus by Leclair (role of Scylla, with Les Nouveaux Caractères and Sébastien d’Hérin, with a recording by Alpha), Rameau’s Fêtes de Polymnie (with the Orfeo Orchestra Budapest and György Vashegyi, with the support of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles) or Falstaff by Verdi (role of Nanetta, at the Hungarian State Opera).
Among her recent projects, we can mention the release of two recordings with Philippe Jaroussky, both with I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis by Warner Classics: in 2017 La storia di Orfeo with works by Monteverdi, Sartorio, Rossi; and the other release in 2018 is Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, where she sings the role of Amore. In 2017, she had her first solo recording released by Hungaroton on which she sings songs by Claude Debussy with Emese Virág at the piano.
Emőke has a successful collaboration with the Boston Early Music Festival (musical directors: Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs). Her first recording with the group was a nice selection of love duets by Agostino Steffani (label CPO) which project they presented on a tour at many venues in the USA and in Canada. She will make her debut at the festival in June 2019 singing the role of Bradamante in Steffani’s Orlando.
In 2017/2018, she sang the role of L’Ange in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise with Sylvain Cambreling and the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra Japan. She sang the role of Cleopatra in Händel’s Giulio Cesare on a tour with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone. She performed Bach’s Magnificat and Händel’s Dixit Dominus with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée on a tour in France and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Concentus Musicus Wien at Musikverein. In March 2018, she jumped in two times on short notice to sing the role of Morgana at Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Händel’s Alcina from the orchestra pit - with Cecilia Bartoli and Philippe Jaroussky on stage, with Le Concert d’Astrée, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. She sang the role of Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at TCE, alongside Philippe Jaroussky and Patricia Petibon, under the baton of Diego Fasolis and with a staging by Robert Carsen.
2018/19 will include, among others, a tour with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse presenting a program of Händel love arias and duets, Mozart’s Requiem on a tour with the Orchestra of Théâtre des Champs-Élysées conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by William Christie, singing Händel, Pergolesi and Vivaldi with the group Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen in Barcelona and London, her debut as Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo at the Opera of Rome.
In 2018 Emőke has started her long-term collaboration with Warner Classics-Erato as an exclusive artist. On her first recording, she sings masterpieces by Barbara Strozzi and her masters: Francesco Cavalli and Pietro Antonio Cesti with Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra conducted by Francesco Corti. The recording will be released in early 2019.
DISCOGRAPHY

G.Fr.Händel: Giulio Cesare
IL COMPLESSO BAROCCO
Alan Curtis
Naïve records
2012

Antonio Vivaldi: Catone in Utica
IL COMPLESSO BAROCCO
Alan Curtis
Naïve records
2013
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Francesco Cavalli: Elena (DVD)
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Cappella Mediterranea,Leonardo García Alarcón,Jean-Yves Ruf
Outhere music
2013

Jean-Philippe Ramaeu: Les Fêtes de Polymnie
Orfeo Orchestra
Purcell Choir
György Vashegyi
Glossa
2014

Une Passion
Extracts from John’s and Matthew’s passion
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Ensemble Akadêmia,
Françoise Lasserre
Bayard Musique
2015

Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus
Les nouveaux caracteres
Sebastian d’Herin
Alpha
2015

G.Fr.Händel: Partenope
Il Pomo d’Oro
Riccardo Minasi
Erato
2016

La storia di Orfeo
Music by Claudio Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi and Antonio Sartorio
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Emőke Baráth (soprano)
Erato
2017

Claude Debussy: Songs
Emese Virág (piano)
Hungaroton
2017

Agostino Steffani: Duets of Love and Passion
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Paul O’Dette
Stephen Stubbs
CPO
2017

Un Opéra pour trois rois
Orfeo Orchestra
Purcell Choir
György Vashegyi
Glossa
2017

Ch.W.Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Philippe Jaroussky (Orfeo)
Amanda Forsythe (Euridice)
Emőke Baráth (Amore)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Erato
2018
SCHEDULE
Oslo Opera House (Norway)
September 9, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Kursaal, Meran (Italy)
September 11, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Müpa, Budapest (Hungary)
September 13, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Temple, Le Sentier (Switzerland)
September 15, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Chapelle de la Trinité, Lyon (France)
September 17, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Royal Opera of Versailles (France)
September 19, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Philharmonie, Paris (France)
September 21, 2018
Händel duets and arias with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse
Matthias Church, Budapest (Hungary)
September 29, 2018
Joseph Haydn: The Creation
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar
Franz Liszt Academy, Solti Hall, Budapest (Hungary)
October 11, 2018
Franz Schubert: Winterreise - from a Woman’s Perspective
Anastasia Razvalyaeva- harp
Staging: Eszter Novák
Lights: Zsolt Czakó
Costume and set: Edit Zeke
Théâtre Auditorium, Poitiers (France)
October 18, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris (France)
October 19, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest (Hungary)
October 20, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Konzerthaus, Vienna (Austria)
October 21, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Philharmonie, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
October 23, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Alte Oper, Frankfurt (Germany)
October 24, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg (Germany)
October 25, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
October 26, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Tonhalle, Düsseldorf (Germany)
October 28, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Requiem
Orchestra des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
De Singel, Antwerp (Belgium)
November 7, 2018
PRJCT Amsterdam
Bach cantatas with Maarten Engeltjes (countertenor)
Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
November 9, 2018
PRJCT Amsterdam
Bach cantatas with Maarten Engeltjes (countertenor)
Philharmonie, Haarlem (Netherlands)
November 11, 2018
PRJCT Amsterdam
Bach cantatas with Maarten Engeltjes (countertenor)
MÜPA, Budapest (Hungary)
November 15, 2018
W.A.Mozart: Mass in C minor
Orfeo Orchestra, Vashegyi György
Marble Hall, Hungarian Radio, Budapest (Hungary)
November 27, 2018
Songs by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
Emese Virág (piano)
House of Arts, Miskolc (Hungary)
December 1, 2018
Works by Johann Kuhnau and J.S.Bach
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest (Hungary)
December 2, 2018
Works by Johann Kuhnau and J.S.Bach
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Kodály Center, Pécs (Hungary)
December 3, 2018
Works by Johann Kuhnau and J.S.Bach
Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Musikverein, Vienna (Austria)
December 8-9, 2018
J.S.Bach: Mein Seel erhebt den Herren (BWV10)
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (BWV147)
Magnificat in D major (BWV 147)
Concentus Musicus Wien,Arnold Schönberg Choir,Stefan Gottfried
L’Auditori, Barcelona (Spain)
January 16, 2019
Works by Händel, Vivaldi and Pergolesi
Maarten Engetljes (countertenor)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Arsenal, Metz (France)
January 19, 2019
Works by Barbara Strozzi,Francesco Cavalli and Pietro Antonio Cesti
Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra, Francesco Corti
Budapest Music Center, Budapest (Hungary)
January 25-26, 2019
Opera arias by Händel
Danubia Orchestra, Máté Hámori
Salle Gaveau, Paris (France)
February 1, 2019
Works by Barbara Strozzi, Francesco Cavalli and Pietro Antonio Cesti
Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra, Francesco Corti
Chapelle de la Trinité, Lyon (France)
February 2, 2019
Works by Barbara Strozzi, Francesco Cavalli and Pietro Antonio Cesti,
Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra, Francesco Corti
Salle des Concerts, Cité de la Musique, Paris (France)
February 13, 2019
Händel, Galuppi, Vivaldi
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
Opera of Rome (Italy)
March 15/17/19/21/22, 2019
Ch.W.Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Role of Amore
Carlo Vistoli (Orfeo), Mariangela Sicilia (Euridice)
Staging by Robert Carsen
Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Gianluca Capuano
Wigmore Hall, London (UK)
April 4, 2019
Antonio Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
April 12/14, 2019
J.S.Bach:St John passion
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, William Christie
Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston (USA)
June 09/12/14/16, 2019
Boston Early Music Festival
Agostino Steffani: Orlando
Role of Bradamante
Staging by Gilbert Blin
Orchestra of BEMF (musical directors: Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs)