He was born in 1961 in Miskolc. As a child, he was raised in Kazincbarcika, since his maternal family, with roots in Budapest, had to endure forced relocation, while his father was from Zemplén County. Despite growing up in a mining town, he received a middle-class upbringing. At the age of twelve, his parents took him for the first time to the Budapest Opera House, where he encountered, for the first time, a work
