The young baritone singer with Hungarian roots began his career in Berlin as a member of the Komische Oper ensemble, before moving to the Oper Frankfurt for the 2006/07 season. Apart from Pagageno (Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Conte (Le nozze de Figaro) he sang his debut roles as Hans Scholl (Die weiße Rose), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Valentin (Faust), Jeletzki (Pique Dame), Marcello (La Bohème), Albert (Werther) and recently Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt) and Owen Wingrave. In spring 2010 Michael Nagy gave guest performances at the Oslo Opera House (Wolfram/Tannhäuser in a new production by Stefan Herheim) and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Graf Luna/Palestrina).

This season the baritone is singing the roles of Jason in Aribert Reimann’s new production of Medea at the Frankfurt Opera and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, conducted by Sebastian Weigle and directed by Christof Loy. He will also perform the part of Nardo in David Alden’s new staging of La finta giardiniera in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien. His opera appearances this season will also include concert performances of Wagner's Die Feen (Morald) in Frankfurt and the La finta giardiniera with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and René Jacobs in Spain. The final highlight of the season will be his debut performance at the 100th Bayreuth Festival, playing the role of Wolfram in a new production of Tannhäuser, featuring an exciting collaboration between Sebastian Baumgarten giving his debut as stage director and Thomas Hengelbrock conducting on the legendary Green Hill for the very first time.

As a concert singer Michael Nagy made his debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall at the beginning of 2007 (St. Matthew’s Passion) and worked for the first time with Philippe Herreweghe (Fauré Requiem), who subsequently invited him to Amsterdam (Concertgebouw) for Mendelssohn’s Elias. This was followed by concerts that included appearances with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin (Hartmann Gesangsszene), the Museumsorchester Frankfurt, (Brahms Requiem, Haydn Creation), the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Mendelssohn Humboldt-Kantate), the Kreuzchor Dresden (St. Matthew’s Passion), the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Szymanowski Stabat Mater) as well as the NDR Sinfonieorchester (Reimann Wolkenloses Christfest) and the Bamberger Symphoniker (Mendelssohn Erste Walpurgisnacht amongst others).

The 2010/11 season will present the baritone with new and known repertoire: Under Helmuth Rilling – who has paid close attention to Michael Nagy’s development and supported him from the beginning – he will sing in Japan end of 2010 Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for the first time. Other additions to his repertoire include Nielsen's 3rd Symphony with the radio orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk under Paavo Järvi and Reger's Requiem with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek. He will also be performing Mahler's 8th Symphony (which he has already sung with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Nott) with Christoph Eschenbach and the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Prague, Hamburg and Hannover to mark the 100th anniversary of Mahler's death.

Michael Nagy particularly enjoys Lieder recitals, although his extensive opera and concert appearances leave him with little time to spare. At the end of 2009 he performed an incredible programme of musical settings of Eichendorff’s poems alongside Gerold Huber as part of Frankfurt Opera’s Lied Series. Accompanied by Juliane Ruf, he was recently a guest performer at the Stuttgart Music Festival and the Schloßkonzerte Bruchsal. This season he is due to a give a guest performance with Helmut Deutsch at the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw.

Michael Nagy began his musical training with the Hymnus Boys’ Choir in Stuttgart. He went on to study in Stuttgart, Mannheim and Saarbrücken, studying voice with Rudolf Piernay, by whom he is still coached, lied interpretation with Irwin Gage, and conducting. He completed his training attending master classes with Charles Spencer, Rudolf Piernay and Cornelius Reid. In 2004, accompanied by pianist Juliane Ruf, he won the International Lied Competition held by Stuttgart’s Hugo Wolf Academy.