Titusz Tóbisz Tenor

Titusz Tóbisz Tenor

Titusz Tóbisz was born in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia in a Hungarian family. Before he started to sing opera, he studied guitar and singing in Budapest. In 2001, he became a solo singer of the Slovak Army ensemble in Bratislava. At his 23 years, he commenced the study of opera and vocal performance in the Conservatory of Music in Košice under the supervision of Mr Juraj Šomorjai. During the study he performed in Thália theatre, where he was given principal roles in drama, musical and operetta.

In 2010, he started singing in the opera chorus in the State theatre of Košice and simultaneously he became a solo singer guest in the Opera of the National theatre in Miskolc. In 2012, he was awarded the prize „Voice of the year“ for his Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in Miskolc. He has been a soloist guest in the National theatre in Budapest since 2013 as Porcus in Honneger’s oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake.

In 2014, he made his debut as a solo opera singer as Canio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci and he became a soloist of the State theatre of Košice opera company. Since then, he has played principal roles and became a regular guest in opera houses in the Slovak republic, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. His most significant roles are Otello (Verdi: Otello), Canio (Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci), Manrico (Verdi: Il Trovatore), Laca Klemeň (Janáček: Jenufa), Arindal (Wagner: Die Feen), Ismaele (Verdi: Nabucco), Edmondo (Puccini: Manon Lescaut), Populescu (Kálmán: Grófka Marica), Duke of Urbino (J. Strauss: A Night in Venice).  

During his career he was awarded an opera critics prize several times, e.g. for Canio and Arindal. In 2017, he was nominated for the famous Czech Thalia Awards as one of the three male opera singers for his Laca Klemeň in Jenufa. In 2018 he was awarded a “Harmónia” award as Soloist of the year in the category of classical music.

He became a regular guest of numerous European theatres, for example: the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, Teatr Wielki in Poznan, F. X. Šalda theatre in Liberec, South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice, the National Theatre in Szeged, Miskolc and Budapest, and others. He is a frequent guest of summer festival Musicales de Louvergny in France. In 2018 he performed Laca in Jenufa (version coproducted by Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie and Teatro Comunale di Bologna) within the famous opera festival „Janáček Brno“ in Czech Republic.