Operatic bass-baritone · Budapest

Károly Szemerédy

A Hungarian bass-baritone of dramatic weight and lyrical poise — at home on the great European stages, from Mozart to Wagner, from Verdi to Bartók.

Voice Dramatic bass-baritone

Based in Budapest

Languages HU · EN · FR · ES · IT

Press portrait · 2026

Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro ✦ Bluebeard Bluebeard's Castle ✦ Sacristan / Lunobor / Domšík The Excursions of Mr. Brouček ✦ Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia ✦ Don Giovanni Don Giovanni ✦ Donner Das Rheingold ✦ Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi ✦ Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande ✦ Guillaume Tell Guillaume Tell ✦ Gunther Götterdämmerung ✦ Harašta The Cunning Little Vixen ✦ Jochanaan Salome ✦ King Solomon The Queen of Sheba ✦ Klingsor Parsifal ✦ Dr. Kolenatý The Makropulos Affair ✦ Michele Il Tabarro ✦ Mr Swallow Peter Grimes ✦ Richard Nixon Nixon in China ✦ Orest Elektra ✦ Pizarro Fidelio ✦ Renato Un ballo in maschera ✦ Scarpia Tosca ✦ Sharpless Madama Butterfly ✦ Stárek Jenůfa ✦ Friedrich von Telramund Lohengrin ✦ Vodník Rusalka ✦ Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro ✦ Bluebeard Bluebeard's Castle ✦ Sacristan / Lunobor / Domšík The Excursions of Mr. Brouček ✦ Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia ✦ Don Giovanni Don Giovanni ✦ Donner Das Rheingold ✦ Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi ✦ Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande ✦ Guillaume Tell Guillaume Tell ✦ Gunther Götterdämmerung ✦ Harašta The Cunning Little Vixen ✦ Jochanaan Salome ✦ King Solomon The Queen of Sheba ✦ Klingsor Parsifal ✦ Dr. Kolenatý The Makropulos Affair ✦ Michele Il Tabarro ✦ Mr Swallow Peter Grimes ✦ Richard Nixon Nixon in China ✦ Orest Elektra ✦ Pizarro Fidelio ✦ Renato Un ballo in maschera ✦ Scarpia Tosca ✦ Sharpless Madama Butterfly ✦ Stárek Jenůfa ✦ Friedrich von Telramund Lohengrin ✦ Vodník Rusalka ✦

Currently on stage.

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Oct 15 2026

as Scarpia

Tosca

Magyar Állami Operaház, Budapest

Giacomo Puccini

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Selected repertoire

A voice carried by three centuries.

From Mozart's libertines to Bartók's haunted Bluebeard — a long-shaped, contemporary baritone repertoire.

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John Adams · 2026

John Adams

Richard Nixon

Nixon in China

Richard Strauss · 2022

Richard Strauss

Orest

Elektra

Karl Goldmark · 2019

Karl Goldmark

King Solomon

The Queen of Sheba

His fine bass-baritone gave his Vodník the gravitas needed for his warnings to his daughter to reconsider her decision or bring doom upon herself and the man she loves.

Bachtrack · Budapest · 2024

Bookings · 2026 / 2027 season

Available for opera, recital, and oratorio.

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