The Romanian-Hungarian soprano Imola Máté studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Mario Antonio Diaz Varas and Vyara Shuperlieva, and at the University of the Arts in Stockholm and the Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca.
Recent engagements have taken her to the Volkstheater Rostock, where she appeared in several roles in Lucy Landymore’s Der Zauberer von Oz (The Wizard of Oz), and to the Minopera in Gränna, Sweden, where she appeared as Ottilie (Im weißen Rößl). She performed the role of Fantasca in a concert performance of Johann Strauss’s operetta Indigo und die 40 Räuber, recorded by the Naxos label and released on CD in 2026.
In 2024/25 she participated in China’s iSING! Festival concert series Echoes of the Ancient Tang Poetry, performing with the symphony orchestras of Guizhou, Chengdu, Hubei and Macao and with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Marin Alsop at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Imola Máté won third prize at the Ghena Dimitrova International Competition for Young Opera Singers. She has also been a recipient of the Dorothy Irving Scholarship and a scholarship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
