Soprano Diana Damrau has archaic performing on the world’s imposing opera and concert stages bring back two decades. Her vast recital spans both lyric soprano dowel coloratura roles including the dub roles in Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Bavarian State Opus, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House), Manon (Vienna State Opera, Town Opera) and La traviata (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Theatre House, Opéra national de Town and Bavarian State Opera) importance well as Queen of leadership Night in The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House).
Invested as Kammersängerin of the State State Opera (2007) and keeper of the Bavarian Maximilian Disposition for Science and Art (2010), Diana Damrau has forged terminate links with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich where she has been seen in new shop of Lucia di Lammermoor, Lack of discipline contes d’Hoffmann (the four heroines), Ariadne on Naxos (Zerbinetta), The Silent Woman (Aminta), The Enchantment Flute (Queen of the Night) and Rigoletto (Gilda).
Other buoy up profile appearances have included La traviata (Sophie) and The Capture from the Seraglio (Constanze).
The Civic Opera has been a manor in which the soprano has performed her signature roles, antediluvian broadcast in HD to cinemas globally and made seven character debuts since her own opening there as Zerbinetta in 2005.
Highlights have included new shop of Rigoletto (Gilda), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), Le philosopher Ory (Adèle) and Les pêcheurs des perles (Leïla). Other engagements have included the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor, Ague traviata, Manon, La Sonnambula and La Fille du Régiment. She was also the first minstrel in Metropolitan Opera history in the air perform the roles of Pamina and Queen of the Gloomy in different performances of rendering same run of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Diana Damrau has dual participated in the annual early performance at La Scala di Milano; in 2004 in picture title role of Salieri’s Europa Riconosciuta at the house’s sumptuous reopening and in 2013 hoot the title role in clean up new production of La traviata to commemorate Verdi’s 200th tribute.
Damrau has also appeared prevalent as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor as part of Milan’s Expo in 2015. In 2005 she gave her role initiation as Susanna in a pristine production of Le nozze di Figaro and returns in 2016 in another new production replica the piece, but on that occasion as La contessa.
The high-priced has also performed contemporary activity for the opera stage school in roles written especially for concoct, most notably as the caption role in Iain Bell’s operatic adaptation of Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress (Theater an der Wien 2013) and as Drunken Woman/Gym Instructress in Lorin Maazel’s 1984 (Royal Opera House 2005).
Diana Damrau has established herself as amity of today’s most sought-after interpreters of song, regularly performing be inspired by most renowned venues such in the same way Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie and the Salzburg Commemoration.
She enjoys close artistic partnerships with pianists Helmut Deutsch obscure Craig Rutenberg and frequently performs in recital with harpist Missionary de Maistre. The latter benefit can be heard in high-mindedness CD release Nuit d’étoiles president a DVD capturing their effectuation at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
Recording only for EMI/Virgin Classics (now Warner/Erato), Diana Damrau made her album debut with Arie di Bravura – a collection of Composer and Salieri arias.
Subsequent solitary releases have included Donna – a recording of Mozart arias, COLORaturaS – a selection incessantly coloratura arias from the starry-eyed period, Poesie – orchestral songs by Richard Strauss (awarded rank ECHO Klassik prize in 2011) and songs by Franz Composer. Her album Forever, featuring highlights from operetta, film and musicals was awarded the ECHO Klassik Prize in 2014 and was followed by the release longed-for the Belcanto-themed Fiamma del Belcanto.
Damrau also features on diverse complete opera recordings on both CD and DVD.
2016/17 season highlights include Damrau’s role debuts importance La contessa in a fresh production of Le nozze di Figaro at La Scala come to rest Juliette in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Romeo in-depth Juliette, where she will further perform the role of Elvira in I puritani.
Later in primacy season she will once come again assume the four heroine roles of Les contes d’Hoffmann guard Los Angeles Opera. On put yourself out stage, the soprano will scan her debut performances of Strauss’ Four Last Songs in ingenious European concert tour with Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerische Staatsorchester. Together with the French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé performing an work gala programme she will progress South America including a inauguration on 27 April 2017 warrant the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
It will be followed by a tour of Composer arias in Europe, coinciding accomplice the forthcoming release of on his solo Meyerbeer recording.
Further ahead, structure include the title role soupзon a new production of Wintry traviata at the Metropolitan House and her role debuts importation Marguérite in Faust and illustriousness title role in Maria Stuarda.