Magda Nádor

Magda Nádor

Department of Vocal and Opera Studies

Classical Singing as Main Subject

 
Born: 1955, Dorog
 
Academic degree, university position: dr. habil., DLA, associate professor
 
Studies:
As a child, she played the violin for nine years
1975-1981: Franz Liszt Academy of Music – professor: Edit Fábry
1986-1988: Berlin, KS. – Hanne-Lore Kuhse
Since 2000 she has attended classes in Mannheim various times in the terlussology work team led by Dr. Charlotte Hagena.
She has been doing research work together with fellow researchers of the Phoniatry Department of the Jena based Friedrich Schiller University Clinic, and with German, Austrian and Dutch singing specialists for 20 years.
2002: habilitation
2004: She received her DLA degree. The title of her doctoral thesis: We do not breathe in the same way!
 
Teaching activities:
Already as a graduate student at the Music Academy, she taught singing at the Secondary School of Music of Győr.
Since 1999, she has been engaged in teaching voice production, doing functional training and voice therapy.
Since 1999, she has been teaching at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
 
Invited lecturer, master classes:
She taught at the Summer Master Courses in Semmering for many years.
Since 2003, she has taught at the International Summer Course in Balassagyarmat (Hungary).
At the conferences of the Circle of Friends of Hungarian Singing Culture - which she is also a founding member of - she gave lectures to her colleagues teaching singing at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels.
 
For 20 years, she has been teaching according to a special method, which is based on the foundations of terlussology. Terlussology works with various types of exercises, taking the two types of breathings and the cold and warm zones of the human body into consideration. She has been giving related courses throughout the country - National Pedagogical Institute, Debrecen, Szeged, Nyíregyháza, Esztergom, etc. - and within the framework of phoniater training, organized by the National Oncological Institute.
 
Major roles:
She sang mainly dramatic, coloratura soprano roles.
 
Constanze (Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio)
Queen of the Night (Mozart: The Magic Flute)
Fiordiligi (Mozart: Così fan tutte)
Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto)
Violetta (Verdi: Traviata)
Luise Miller (Verdi)
Oscar (Verdi: A Masked Ball)
Musetta, Mimi (Puccini: La Bohème)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor)
Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale)
Marguerite (Berlioz: La damnation de Faust)
Teti (Jomelli: Fetonte)
Frau Fluth (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Eurydice (Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice)
Adele, Rosalinde (Strauss: The Bat)
 
As a concert singer, she interpreted mainly those compositions of Bach and Mozart that had been written for a high soprano voice.