Pannon Philharmonic

Having won numerous prizes early in her career, including the Zarzuela Prize at Placido Domingo ś
Operalia Competition in Madrid, the second Prize in Operetta at the Belvedere Competition and the
second prize and the public's favorite prize at the s H́ ertogenbosch Competition in 2006.
Making her operatic debut in 2003 at the festival in Weikersheim, she sang the title role in Carmen
under Yakov Kreizberg, which she reprised with the Fujiwara Opera in 2004/2005 in Toyama and
Tokyo under Myung Whun Chung and in 2006 in Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro. Since that time,
she has sung Orsola in Wolf-Ferrari ś Il Campiello with the National Theater in Tokyo, La Voix
Humaine at the Czech National Opera, the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, with the National
Opera of Ireland, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Alden Biesen Festival in Belgium, Enrico in
Enrico di Borgogna at the Vadstena Academy in Sweden, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the
Eutiner Festival, Handel´s Ariodante in Ariodante, Serse in Serse, Bradamante in Alcina,
Principessa in Puccini´s Suor Angelica, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Mère Marie in Poulenc´s
Dialogues des Carmélites at Theater Ulm, Fenena in Nabucco, Maddalena in Rigoletto at the
Stadttheater Münster as well as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel at the Staatsoperette in Dresden.
Her concert repertoire includes also Bach´s Matthäus Passion and Weihnachtsoratorium, Rossini´s
Stabat Mater and Petite messe solennelle, Chausson´s Poème de l´amour et de la mer, Mozart´s
and Verdi´s Requiem. Additional concert appearances have included the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, Al Bustan festival Beirut, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the
Tonhalle in Dusseldorf and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
At home in musical comedy, Kinga has also performed in such diverse venues as the
Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin, where she performed over four hundred times in the review Revue
Berlin and Jingle Bells, Anita at the Bregenz Festival in Francesca Zambello's production of West
Side Story as well as Aldonza in The Man of La Mancha at the Landestheater Bregenz. Numerous
television and radio broadcasts (MDR, ORB, SWR) reflect her versatility and experience in the
fields of opera and operetta.
Mezzo-soprano Kinga Dobay completed her initial musical studies in violin before attending the
Leipzig Conservatory, where she obtained her diploma in voice and musical theater. Receiving a
scholarship from the German government for post-graduate studies, she went on to the
Conservatory in Maastricht with Mya Besselink, as well as privately with Teresa Berganza, Julia
Hamari, and Grace Bumbry.