Welcome to Éva László's website

On October 6, 2023 are `100 years from the birth of Eva Laszlo. This website has been created in her memory. The content of this site has been obtained from the 7 albums organized chronologically by Eva Laszlo, creating not only a true history of her life but also a history of Hungarian Opera in Cluj.

In December 2023 , a book about her life will be published in Cluj Romania.

The site will continue to receive new pictures, documents, and recordings as we find and prepare them.

The audio recordings were made by the exceptional professionals of Radio Cluj.

A majority of photos from the opera performances were taken by renowned Cluj photographer Szabo Denes. Some of them were colorized using Artificial Intelligence.

Éva

Eva Laszlo was born in Arad on October 6, 1923. Her father came from a German family known as the Hehs family, while her mother, the daughter of Jewish doctors, converted to the Lutheran religion at her husband’s request.

Eva Hehs, her maiden name, became an orphan at the age of 11. Along with her sister Agi, she was raised by distant relatives, and they lived in abject poverty. Her sister passed away in 1950 in Arad.

In 1942, she was offered a soloist position at Radio Budapest. However, the Horthy Hungarian fascist authorities sent her back to Romania because of her mother’s Jewish origins.

On March 6, 1945, she married Laszlo Roth in Arad. In 1948, the Roth family, along with her husband’s mother, moved to Cluj for the opening of the Hungarian Opera, where Eva Laszlo was accepted as a soloist. After a prolific career, she retired from the Hungarian Opera in 1969 but continued to participate and sing in solo shows and concerts, both in Romania and abroad. She passed away in Cluj in December 1995 after a long period of suffering. You can listen to few of her recordings in the Recodings section of this site.

1958 – Bizet – Carmen – colored using AI

1965 Verdi – Don Carlo : Eboli role

1965 – Kodaly – Hary Janos: Laszlo Eva – Sass Laszlo

1957 – Erkel Ferencz – Bank Ban – Gertrudis role