New at Parnassus: Gyula Rab

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27 May 2025

We are very much looking forward to working with the Hungarian tenor Gyula Rab and are pleased to take over his exclusive management.
The Hungarian tenor Gyula Rab is a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Germany, for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons. His roles include Tamino in The Magic Flute, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni by Mozart, Prince Ramiro in La Cenerentola and Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, Elvino in La Sonnambula by Bellini, Ernesto in Don Pasquale and Beppe in Rita by Donizetti, Oronte in Alcinaand Tempo in Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno by Händel, Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky, Rosillon in The Merry Widow by Lehár, Gonzalve in L’Heure Espagnole by Ravel and Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor by Nicolai.

He was a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera House in the 2016/17 season. Gyula is a graduate of the International Opera School at the Royal College of Music in London and was awarded the Sir Roger and Lady Carr Soirée d’Or Scholarship. He also holds a Master of Music from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with the world-famous soprano Éva Marton and was awarded the UNELMA-Dream Scholarship and the Le Meridien Prize of the Ari S Kupsus Salon Concert Society.

Further opera engagements include Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Tamino in The Magic Flute by Mozart, Achill in Iphigénie en Aulide by Gluck and Fenton in Falstaff by Verdi at the Hungarian State Opera, Silvio in L’arbore di Diana by Soler at the Theater an der Wien, Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor by Nicolai at the Volksoper Vienna, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini in Suzhou at the iSING! Festival in China, Louis in Angels in America by Eötvös at the Wrocław Opera and Osroa in Adriano in Siria by Pergolesi at the Cadogan Hall in London.

Gyula also sang the role of Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky on tour in prestigious European concert halls as an Equilibrium Young Artist, including Gasteig Munich, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and Kulturpalast Dresden.

As a concert singer, he regularly performs works by Bach, Händel, Mozart, Haydn, Rossini, Kodály, and Bartók, and has worked with conductors such as Ádám Fischer, Péter Eötvös, Jakub Hrůša, Barbara Hannigan, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Tamás Vásáry, Ken’ichiro Kobayashi, and János Kovács.

Gyula Rab received the Independent Opera Postgraduate Voice Fellowship and the International Opera Awards Foundation Scholarship. In 2016, he was awarded the prestigious Junior Prima Award in Hungary, followed in 2024 by the Prima Prize in the category of performing arts. He was a finalist in the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award at the Wigmore Hall (2015) and a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

On 28 May 2025, Gyula will sing the role of Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at Theater Coburg, in June 2025 Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor at Gärtnerplatztheater, and in August 2025 the role of Ernesto (Don Pasquale) at the Hungarian State Opera.

Here are two current sound samples from Gyula:

Arie de – Tamino Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön

Arie des Don Ottavio – Il mio tesoro

More information and bookings for Gyula Rab: georg@parnassus.at