Sylvia Geszty Death
Sylvia passed away on December 15, 2018 at the age of 84 in Stuttgart, Germany.
When did Sylvia Geszty die?
December 15, 2018How old was Sylvia Geszty when died?
84Where did Sylvia Geszty die? What was the location of death?
Stuttgart, Germany
Sylvia Geszty Birthday and Date of Death
Sylvia Geszty was born on February 28, 1934 and died on December 15, 2018. Sylvia was 84 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: February 28, 1934
Date of Death: December 15, 2018
Age at Death: 84
Sylvia Geszty - Biography
Sylvia Geszty, born Sylvia Maria Ilona Wytkowsky in Stuttgart, was a Hungarian-German opera singer (coloratura soprano), which gained in particular through its coloratura interpretations international reputation.
The young Sylvia wanted to become a dancer or actress, but she did not think of a career as a singer at first. After graduation she decided to have her voice trained and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, u. a. at Erzsébeth Hoor-Tempis. Even during her studies, the young woman won various singing competitions, for example the International Robert Schumann Competition for piano and voice in Berlin. In 1959 she made her debut at the Budapest National Opera and immediately became a soloist with the Hungarian Philharmonic Society. Two years later, the now well-known singer followed a call to the Berlin State Opera (first actor Amorin the Orpheus by Christoph Willibald Gluck ), where they were frenetically celebrated as the prima donna Unter den Linden. At the same time she was still engaged at the Komische Oper Berlin. The artist, who in 1966 awarded the GDR Art Prize and was elevated to Kammersängerin in 1968, designed large sections of opera and operetta literature, in particular important roles of the coloratura subject, such as the Queen of the Night in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute, the Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizettior the Zerbinetta in Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss. In Berlin she continued to take singing lessons with Dagmar Freiwald-Lange. She also did many extremely successful guest tours and sang u. a. at the opera festivals in Munich and Salzburg.
Since 1988, the International Coloratura Song Competition initiated by Sylvia Geszty took place and in 1998 her debut as a highly respected opera director (with Don Pasquale at the theater in Poznan, Poland). A wealth of recordings, television appearances (over 80 programs for ARD and ZDF) and films, as well as entertainment programs on the radio round off their versatile repertoire. Just in time for her 70th birthday, the singer published her autobiography Queen of Coloratura. Memories.
