Levente Páll

INTRODUCTION

Hungarian bass Levente Páll is an accomplished artist both vocally and acting-wise. He is a very versatile and he has powerful energy on stage.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

Recent and upcoming highlights include, among others, Biterolf in Tannhäuser at Teatro Real in Madrid, Don Fernando in Fidelio at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, and Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier at Ópera de Tenerife.

In Austria, appearances include Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Bonzo in Madama Butterfly, and Fasolt in Das Rheingold at the Bregenzer Festspiele, Eremit in Der Freischütz, Priest and Dachs in The Cunning Little Vixen, bass soloist in Das Paradies und die Peri, Voce in Idomeneo, and multiple roles (Old Man 2, Crab, King of Hearts, Frog-Footman) in Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin at Theater an der Wien, as well as Sir John Falstaff in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor at Stadttheater Klagenfurt,  Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia and a soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Lech Classic Festival.

In Germany, roles at the Staatsoper Hamburg include Iwan Jakowlewitsch, Leiter der Redaktion, and Arzt in Die Nase, Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, and Biterolf in Tannhäuser. Further engagements include Don Apostolo Gazella in Lucrezia Borgia, Harašta in The Cunning Little Vixen, and A lackey in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

At the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, recent roles include Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, participation in the contemporary opera Der tollste Tag, Sir John Falstaff in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Count Rodolfo in La Sonnambula, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Escamillo in Carmen, Khan Konchak in Prince Igor, Wurm in Luisa Miller, Crespel in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Polizist in Der Besuch der alten Dame, and Sarastro and Zweite geharnischter in Die Zauberflöte, among others. In season 2026/27, he is to perform as Don Profondo/Barone di Trombonok in Il viaggio a Reims, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s Castle, Nilakantha in Lakmé, and return as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro.

In Switzerland, appearances include Doctor in The Nose at Theater Basel.

In Norway, recent appearances include Priest and Dachs in The Cunning Little Vixen at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet.

BIOGRAPHY

Levente Páll has been a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich since the season 2016/17, where he has performed (a.o.) as Don Alfonso/Così fan tutte, Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro, Osmin/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Magnifico/La Cenerentola, Don Pasquale, Sparafucile/Rigoletto, Lord Talbot/Maria Stuarda, Baculus/Der Wildschütz, Colline/La Bohéme, Leporello/Don Giovanni, and Khan Konchak/Prince Igor.

Levente Páll made his debut at the Royal Opera House, London, as First Soldier in Salome in January 2018, as well as in March 2018 as Carceriere in Tosca at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, where he also returned in 2019 as Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Since 2015, Mr. Pall appeared on concert stages as a bass soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Budapest, St.Gallen, and Stuttgart, in Bach’s Mass in B minor in the Musikverein of Vienna, in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Copenhagen, and at the Herkulessaal in Munich, as well as König Heinrich in Lohengrin at the Opéra National de Montpellier. In January 2019, he performed the role of Osmin in Mozart’s Zaide with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, broadcast by the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Mr. Pall was a member of the ensemble from 2014 to 2016 at the Theater St. Gallen, where he appeared as Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin, Banquo in Macbeth, Loredano in Verdi’s I due Foscari, Oroveso in Bellini’s Norma, as well as Don Diègue in Massenet’s Le Cid. In addition, he sang Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Landestheater Bregenz in 2016.

The 2013 – 2014 season started with his house début at the Theater Magdeburg in the title role of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. In 2013, the young bass made his début at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where he has since returned as Lakai in Ariadne auf Naxos, Reinmar von Zweiter (Tannhäuser), and also as Hermann Ortel (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). In 2012, he succeeded in his Swedish début at the Opera på Skäret festival as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor.

Levente Páll was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Hamburg from 2010 until 2012. Since then, he returned there for roles as Haraschta in a new production of Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Baron Duphol and Dottore Grenvil in La traviata, as well as the Lakai and Haushofmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos. He was born in Transylvania and grew up in Hungary. He studied viola and singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and went on to further singing studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. As a violist, he played in orchestras including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.