Award-winning Hungarian soprano Réka Kristóf recently appeared in Weber’s Der Freischütz (Theater Koblenz), Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra under Martin Haselböck and I Lombardi with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. Kristóf has been part of the ensemble of Theater Trier since the 2018/19 season.

As a concert artist, appearances have included Strauss’s Four Last Songs at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, a solo recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra under Róbert Farkas at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg.

She is also passionate about Early Music, and under the direction of Joachim Tschiedel sang the title role in Sterkel’s Farnace at the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg with the Accademia di Monaco in a production recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk. Her debut album, In Furore (Coviello Classics), featuring the same ensemble, was released in 2019, and was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.

Kristóf studied with Krisztina Laki and Thomas Mohr in Bremen and at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich.