Ľudovít Ludha

Tenor, graduate of the Academy of Musical Arts in Bratislava, tutored by Prof. Hudecova. While still studying, Ľudovít Ludha went on a tour of Italy. In 1987, he was won the University Singers’ contest in Prague and in the same year participated in music festival in Salzburg (Schönberg’s opera Moses and Aron, under music direction of J. Levin, directed by J. P. Ponell). From 1988, Ľudovít Ludha performed as an opera soloist of the National Theatre Bratislava, where he performed numerous significant opera roles within a short time span. In 1989, he was a guest at the Innsbruck opera, and starred the role of Adam for the Czech TV in the opera Memento by Filas; the work was later awarded second prize in television festival in Salzburg. In 1991, he was a performing guest in Milan, later performing in Munich in 1992 and 1993 at the international project Belcanto. His other foreign performances include Japan (Rodolfo in La Boheme, and Alfred Germont in La traviata), and Vienna (Saint Ludmila by Dvořák, Fate by Janáček). In the National Theatre in Prague, he performed the title role in Romeo and Juliet by Gounod, Rudolf in La Bohème, and Steva in Her Stepdaughter/Její pastorkyňa.