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. Kutasi was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House and subsequently became a permanent member of the ensemble. Engagements have taken her to renowned venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Arena di Verona, Royal Opera in Copenhagen, and others.
Highlights of Judit 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, spectacular performances as Amneris at the Metropolitan Opera under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and at the Bavarian State Opera 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.
