Biography
Judit Kutasi, a Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano, is one of the outstanding voices in her field. Her distinctive profile is characterized by powerful interpretations of Verdi and Wagner roles.
The 2025/26 season is marked by several impressive highlights for her: she starts the season with her return to the Paris Opera, where she performs the role of Amneris in Verdi’s Aida. She then takes on the role of Ortrud in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Hungarian State Opera. At the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, she sings Pauline in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades before returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Amneris. The season concludes with her guest performances as Azucena in Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. On the concert stage, she can be heard performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at both the Enescu International Festival and with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid (ORCAM) in the Spanish capital. She also sings Bruckner’s Te Deum with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest.
Full Biography
Judit Kutasi, a Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano, is one of the outstanding voices in her field. Her distinctive profile is characterized by powerful interpretations of Verdi and Wagner roles.
The 2025/26 season is marked by several impressive highlights for her: she starts the season with her return to the Paris Opera, where she performs the role of Amneris in Verdi’s Aida. She then takes on the role of Ortrud in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Hungarian State Opera. At the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, she sings Pauline in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades before returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Amneris. The season concludes with her guest performances as Azucena in Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. On the concert stage, she can be heard performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at both the Enescu International Festival and with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid (ORCAM) in the Spanish capital. She also sings Bruckner’s Te Deum with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest.
Judit Kutasi performs regularly in major international opera houses and concert halls. Following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino at the Metropolitan Opera, she returned to New York to sing Amneris under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The New Year’s Eve premiere of Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging of Aida became part of the “Met’s Live in HD” series and was shown in movie theatres across the globe. In San Francisco, Kutasi sang Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera and portrayed Ortrud in the new Lohengrin production under the baton of Eun Sun Kim. Her performances in San Francisco were also featured at the heart of the documentary “Eun Sun Kim: A Journey into Lohengrin” (produced by Elena Park, Lumahai Productions), which was nominated for the 2025 Northern California Emmy Awards. A further media highlight was her television debut in the BBC documentary “Joanna Lumley’s Danube: Europe’s Mightiest River” (Episode 2: Slovakia and Hungary), which presented Kutasi in an interview and in an Aida performance at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest.
Other milestones of Kutasi’s opera career include the role of Erda in the new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold under the musical direction of Sir Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper as well as spectacular performances as Amneris, both at the Arena di Verona and the Bayerische Staatsoper under Maestro Zubin Mehta, and the role of Azucena in Il Trovatore at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Opéra National de Paris. With great success, Judit Kutasi joined Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at Teatro alla Scala Milano in performances led by Maestro Riccardo Chailly, subsequently released by the theater on DVD in a coproduction with CMajor.
As a sought-after artist on the concert stage, Judit Kutasi sang Federica in Verdi’s Luisa Miller (CD production by BR Klassik) together with the Munich Radio Orchestra under the baton of Ivan Repušic. At the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, she sang Bruckner’s Te Deum and performed in the opera house’s New Year’s Concert in 2019. She also sang Verdi’s Requiem under Antonio Pappano in Salzburg and Stravinsky’s Les Noces under Kent Nagano at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Judit Kutasi was born in Timisoara, Romania. She studied voice, piano and cello at the Colegiul Național de Artă “Ion Vidu” and continued her studies at the University of Oradea and the Music Academy Gheorghe Dima in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, graduating with a master’s degree. From 2013 to 2016, she was part of the Zurich Opera—first in the International Opera Studio, then as an ensemble member. Judit Kutasi was a Walter Sandvoss Fellow of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2016/17 and has been a celebrated guest artist there ever since.
