Mezzo soprano Kinga Dobay made her operatic debut in 2003 in the title of Carmen under the baton of Yakov Kreizbergat at the Weikersheim Festival in Germany.  She reprised Carmen with the Fujiwara Operain Toyama and Tokyo under the direction on Myung Whun Chung in the 2004-2005 season, as well as in 2006 in Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro.  Miss Dobay returned to Japan as Orsola in Wolf-Ferrari´s  Il Campiello with the National Theater in Tokyo, was heard as Elle in La Voix Humaine at the Czech National Opera in Prague, made her role debut as the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos with the National Opera of Ireland, was Fenena in Nabucco and Maddalena in Rigoletto at Gut Immling Festival, was Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Staatsoperette in Dresden, and made her 2010 role debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Sivilglia at the Alden Biesen Festival in Belgium.

Miss Dobay’s concert appearances have included performances in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Dusseldorf and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.  She has enjoyed numerous television and radio broadcasts over the MDR, ORB, SWR networks.  

At home in musical theater, Miss Dobay has also performed in such diverse venues as the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin, where she gave more than four hundred performances of Revue Berlin and Jingle Bells.  She was Anita in the Bregenz Festival’s Francesca Zambello production of West Side Story and was Aldonza in The Man of La Mancha at the Landestheater Bregenz.

Miss Dobay’s list of international prizes have included the Zarzuela Prize at  Placido Domingo´s Operalia Competition in Madrid, Second Prize in Operetta at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna, and both Second Prize and the Audience Favorite Prize at the s´Hertogenbosch Competition in the Netherlands.

Kinga Dobay began her musical studies with the violin.  She earned her diploma in voice and musical theater from the Leipzig Conservatory and was a recipient of a scholarship from the German Government for post-graduate studies at the Conservatory in Maastricht, where she studied with Mya Besselink.  She has studied privately with Teresa Berganza, Julia Hamari, and Grace Bumbry.

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