Peter Kálmán

The Hungarian bass-baritone Péter Kálmán, who was born in Budapest, sings a broad repertoire combining buffo and character roles and ranging from Mozart and bel canto to Wagner, Strauss, and Bartók. Kálmán’s home base is the Hungarian State Opera, where he has appeared as Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Beckmesser in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Faninal in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, among others. In the 2022-23 season, he will appear there as Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca and as Alberich in Wagner’s complete Ring of the Nibelung. Péter Kálmán is at the same time very much engaged internationally. In the spring of 2022, for example, he made a guest appearance in Puccini’s Il trittico in a new production staged by Tobias Kratzer at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, and, a few weeks later, he took on the part of Bartolo in Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne. He made his U.S. debut in the 2020-21 season as Don Magnifico in Rossini’s La cenerentola at Seattle Opera. Kálmán has worked with Cecilia Bartoli on several occasions: at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri and Handel’s Semele and also on a tour of Bellini’s Norma, which made stops in Paris, Baden-Baden, and Monte-Carlo. At the Salzburg Summer Festival, in turn, he was part of the ensemble in Schubert’s Fierabras. Other appearances have taken Péter Kálmán to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Theater an der Wien, Zurich Opera, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Such renowned conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Christoph von Dohnányi, Adam Fischer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ingo Metzmacher, Marc Minkowski, Stefan Soltesz, Franz Welser-Möst, and Jaap van Zweden have engaged him for collaborative projects.

Juni 2022