Hanna Honthy was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 opera singer and actress.

Career

Hügel was born on 21 February 1893, in Budapest. From age 10, she was a ballet pupil of the Operaház. After finishing the school as a private student, she learned acting as a student of Szidi Rákos between 1914 and 1915, from Ödön Bárdi between 1915 and 1917, and learned singing from renowned tenorist Georg Anthes. After acting in Bratislava

Bratislava

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, Rijeka

Rijeka

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 and Szombathely

Szombathely

Szombathely is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria...

 as Hanna Honthy, she returned to Budapest in 1920, where her first success came in Blaha Lujza theatre. She appeared in numerous theatres afterwards, including the Vígszínház, Városi Színház, achieving high fame as a prima donna

Prima donna

Originally used in opera or Commedia dell'arte companies, "prima donna" is Italian for "first lady." The term was used to designate the leading female singer in the opera company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given. The prima donna was normally, but not necessarily, a soprano...

, supported by her critically acclaimed voice and acting ability. Between 1925 and 1927 and from 1949 she was a member of the Fővárosi Operettszínház theatre. She also appeared in film.

Filmography

Movies

• Budapesti hangos filmkabaré (1931)
• Régi nyár (1941)
• Déryné (1951)
• Díszelőadás (1955)
• Bástyasétány '74 (1974)

Sources

• Gál Péter Molnár. Honthy Hanna és kora Budapest: Magvető, 1997. ISBN 978-96-3142066-1.
• Hanna Honthy in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon freely available online at mek.niif.hu

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