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Mar
14
Apr
Zurich
Capriccio, final scene
Opernhaus Zürich
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Richard Strauss:
Macbeth op. 23
Moonlight Scene & Final Scene from the Opera “Capriccio”
Ständchen op. 17/2
Wiegenlied op. 41/1
Morgen! op. 27/4
Four interludes from the opera “Intermezzo”
Diana Damrau’s new album sweeps us off to three capital cities of operetta – Vienna, Berlin, and Paris – in her next recording, made with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and conductor Ernst Theis. Operette will be released on December 8.
With Riccardo Minasi, Richard Whilds, the Hanover Boys Choir, the NDR Vokalensemble, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Matthias Höfs, Raphael Alpermann and Gabriel Smallwood.
Just in time for the Christmas season, this digital Christmas EP presents three tracks from an album recorded by the stunning soprano Diana Damrau with the dynamic conductor Riccardo Minasi and the NDR Radiophilharmonie. The full Christmas album will be released in autumn 2022.
Mar 12, 2024
On March 30 and 31, join Diana Damrau and Manfred Honeck conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein for two evenings of operetta and sacred music to usher in spring. You can watch the LIVE performance on March 31 via ORF III.
Jan 8, 2024
Note: Due to illness, Ms. Damrau has cancelled this tour.
Diana Damrau reunites with her longtime collaborator, pianist Helmut Deutsch, to reprise their Lieder and Spanish songs program, featuring works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Joaquín Rodrigo, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina, and Fernando Obradors.
The performances that place at the Schlosstheater Fulda on February 2, Carnegie Hall on February 6, the BOZAR on February 10, and the Musikverein on February 14.
Dec 8, 2023
This Christmas season, Diana Damrau makes her debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, returning to the Bayerische Staatsoper from December 23 until January 10. The new production by Barrie Kosky affords the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and focuses on its morbid side.
Joining Ms Damrau will be Georg Nigl as Gabriel von Eisenstein, Katharina Konradi as Adele and Miriam Neumaier as Ida. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.
Watch it LIVE on ARTE on December 31.
“[...]Damrau’s vocal delicacy, [is] able to open a phrase with a delicate crescendo, while often ending them with soft holds as if she were embracing the syllables to the fullest.”
– Operawire
Soprano Diana Damrau has been performing on the world’s leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans title roles in Anna Bolena (Opera House Zurich, Vienna State Opera), I Masnadieri (Bavarian State Opera), Roméo et Juliette (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House), Manon (Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera) and La Traviata (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Paris and Bavarian State Opera) as well as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House, Bavarian State Opera). She will make her debut as Gräfin Madeleine in Capriccio at the Bavarian State Opera.
Diana Damrau is Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera (2007) and holder of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2010). She is a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021). She has also been selected Singer of the Year (Opernwelt, International Opera Award London, Opera News, Gramophone Editor’s Choice) and since 2020 an asteroid bears her name.