19
Apr
19
Apr
New York, NY
Maria Stuarda – Cancelled due to COVID-19
The Metropolitan Opera
Maurizio Benini, Dirigent
Diana Damrau, Maria Stuarda
Jamie Barton, Elisabetta
Stephen Costello, Leicester
23
Apr
New York, NY
Maria Stuarda – Cancelled due to COVID-19
The Metropolitan Opera
Maurizio Benini, Dirigent
Diana Damrau, Maria Stuarda
Jamie Barton, Elisabetta
Stephen Costello, Leicester
27
Apr
New York, NY
Maria Stuarda – Cancelled due to COVID-19
The Metropolitan Opera
Maurizio Benini, Dirigent
Diana Damrau, Maria Stuarda
Jamie Barton, Elisabetta
Stephen Costello, Leicester
“For me, Strauss is one of the greatest composers,” Diana Damrau has said. “The way he handles the soprano voice is a joy. And to be able to sing his music with my voice feels like coming home.” The centrepiece of this album of Strauss songs is the sublime Vier letzte Lieder, in which Damrau – born and trained in Bavaria – joins forces with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its long-standing Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons, in what was to become his final recording. Her partner in a tempting and diverse selection of songs with piano is Helmut Deutsch. “Not only is Strauss’s music gorgeous,” says Damrau, “there’s the way he combines words and notes – and the psychology.”
Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann, reigning stars of opera, are also consummate interpreters of song. In early 2018, with master pianist Helmut Deutsch, they performed Hugo Wolf’s multi-faceted Italienisches Liederbuch in 12 cities around Europe. “One couldn’t ask for more,” wrote the Telegraph after their London concert, which took place two days before this live recording was made in the German city of Essen.
This album is available for pre-order via Amazon.de and will be released in Germany on January 11, and on Amazon.com on January 25, 2019.
Label: C Major Entertainment/Naxos
Diana Damrau, Carlos Álvarez, Golda Schultz, Markus Werba
Franz Welser-Möst, Dirigent
Frederic Wake-Walker, Inszenierung
Zum 225. Todestag Mozarts präsentiert die Mailänder Scala diese neue Produktion von seinem Meisterwerk Le nozze di Figaro in der ausgewöhnlichen Regie von Frederic Wake-Walker. Er konzentriert sich in seiner Erzählweise auf das Thema der unsteten Liebe: Le nozze di Figaro konfrontiert uns mit der Unmöglichkeit einer Welt, in der alle lieben und vergeben können. Die musikalische Leitung hat kein Geringerer als einer der besten Mozart-Dirigenten unserer Zeit, Franz Welser-Möst, der hier sein La Scala Debüt präsentiert. Die Besetzung heißt Diana Damrau (Contessa), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Golda Schultz (Susanna), Markus Werba (Figaro) und Carlos Álvarez (Conte).
The Metropolitan Opera has canceled the remainder of the 2019–20 season, which was to have ended May 9, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic. This includes all performances and Live in HD transmissions. This, unfortunately, includes the run of Maria Stuarda scheduled for April and May. For more information, click here.
Joining the Metropolitan Opera and the Staatsoper Berlin in a growing number of opera houses around the world, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real de Madrid and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu will offer free livestreams on their respective platforms to entertain opera fans around the world who find themselves quarantined in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The Staatsoper unter den Linden has announced that it will provide online streams on its website starting on March 16 through April 19. The offerings will change daily, with some re-runs, and will be available for 24 hours (all opera streams start at noon).
On March 23, the stream will feature the ”Staatsoper für alle” Open Air Concert in which Ms. Damrau singing the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
“the leading coloratura soprano in the world”
– New York Sun
Seit ihrem frühen Bühnendebüt ist die Sopranistin Diana Damrau nunmehr schon 20 Jahre ständiger Gast auf den Bühnen der international führenden Opern- und Konzerthäuser sowie Festivals.
Ihr umfangreiches Repertoire liegt im Lyrischen und Koloraturfach und beinhaltet die Titelrollen in Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala di Milano, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House London), Manon (Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera) und La Traviata (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Paris und Bayerische Staatsoper) sowie die Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House).
