Biography
Emoke Baráth entered the recording world in 2017 through two albums that pointed toward a promising path in both early music and the standard repertoire, and she has maintained that breadth ever since as a notably flexible vocalist.
Born in 1985 in Kerepestarcsa, Hungary, she began piano studies at six and later added cello and harp before turning to singing during her teenage years. Her first vocal training came with József Hormai at the King St. Stephen's Secondary School of Music in Budapest, followed by work with Julia Paszthy at the Franz Liszt Academy in the same city. A third-prize finish at the Dvorák International Competition in the Czech Republic in 2009 encouraged her to aim for an international career, prompting a move to Florence in 2011 for a year of study with Leonardo de Lisi at the Luigi Cherubino Conservatory. Additional major prizes arrived soon afterward, and her recording debut occurred in late 2012 when she sang the role of Sesto in a Naïve-label production of Handel's Giulio Cesare led by conductor Alan Curtis.
Baráth has balanced Baroque and traditional repertory from the outset. In 2013 she took the title role in Francesco Cavalli's Elena at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and during the 2013-2014 season she appeared as Nanetta in a Budapest Opera staging of Verdi's Otello. The same season included a European tour as soprano soloist in Bach's Mass in B minor, BWV 232, with Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski. She subsequently collaborated with leading early-music ensembles such as the Accademia Bizantina alongside Andreas Scholl and Le Concert d'Astrée directed by Emmanuelle Haïm. Modern-instrument orchestras have also featured her, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah and the Liverpool Philharmonic in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Her range extends further to several seventeenth-century opera parts and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor.
Baráth returned to the studio in 2017 for La Storia di Orfeo, a Philippe Jaroussky-curated anthology of seventeenth-century Orpheus settings, and for a Hungaroton collection of Debussy songs. She joined the Erato roster in 2018 and issued the aria program Voglio Cantar the next year, devoted to music by Barbara Strozzi. In 2020 she participated in a CPO recording of Handel's early opera Almira, HWV 1, and in 2022 she released Dualità: Handel Opera Arias on Erato.
Born in 1985 in Kerepestarcsa, Hungary, she began piano studies at six and later added cello and harp before turning to singing during her teenage years. Her first vocal training came with József Hormai at the King St. Stephen's Secondary School of Music in Budapest, followed by work with Julia Paszthy at the Franz Liszt Academy in the same city. A third-prize finish at the Dvorák International Competition in the Czech Republic in 2009 encouraged her to aim for an international career, prompting a move to Florence in 2011 for a year of study with Leonardo de Lisi at the Luigi Cherubino Conservatory. Additional major prizes arrived soon afterward, and her recording debut occurred in late 2012 when she sang the role of Sesto in a Naïve-label production of Handel's Giulio Cesare led by conductor Alan Curtis.
Baráth has balanced Baroque and traditional repertory from the outset. In 2013 she took the title role in Francesco Cavalli's Elena at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and during the 2013-2014 season she appeared as Nanetta in a Budapest Opera staging of Verdi's Otello. The same season included a European tour as soprano soloist in Bach's Mass in B minor, BWV 232, with Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski. She subsequently collaborated with leading early-music ensembles such as the Accademia Bizantina alongside Andreas Scholl and Le Concert d'Astrée directed by Emmanuelle Haïm. Modern-instrument orchestras have also featured her, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah and the Liverpool Philharmonic in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Her range extends further to several seventeenth-century opera parts and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor.
Baráth returned to the studio in 2017 for La Storia di Orfeo, a Philippe Jaroussky-curated anthology of seventeenth-century Orpheus settings, and for a Hungaroton collection of Debussy songs. She joined the Erato roster in 2018 and issued the aria program Voglio Cantar the next year, devoted to music by Barbara Strozzi. In 2020 she participated in a CPO recording of Handel's early opera Almira, HWV 1, and in 2022 she released Dualità: Handel Opera Arias on Erato.
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