11
Jun
11
Jun
Rome
Donizetti Gala: “Il Ciclo Tudor” – Cancelled due to COVID-19
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor
DONIZETTI: The Tudor Cycle
Final scenes from Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux
13
Jun
Rome
Donizetti Gala: “Il Ciclo Tudor” – Cancelled due to COVID-19
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor
DONIZETTI: The Tudor Cycle
Final scenes from Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux
16
Jun
Rome
Donizetti Gala: “Il Ciclo Tudor” – Cancelled due to COVID-19
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor
DONIZETTI: The Tudor Cycle
Final scenes from Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux
“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, conductor
Frederic Wake-Walker, director
For the 225th anniversary of Mozart’s death, Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Le nozze di Figaro, entrusted to the extraordinary director Frederic Wake-Walker. He focusses the action of the piece on the instability of love: Le nozze di Figaro presents us with the impossibility of a world where everyone is loving and forgiving. In charge of the musical direction is one of the finest Mozart conductors of our times, Franz Welser-Möst, who appears for the first time at La Scala. The main roles are played by Diana Damrau (Countess), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Golda Schultz (Susanna), Markus Werba (Figaro) and Carlos Álvarez (Count).
May 26, 2020
Join Diana Damrau and Emmanuel Villaume, conductor and Music Director at The Dallas Opera, on their new episode of #AskMaestro tomorrow, May 27. Tune-in to their Instagram and their YouTube channel at 1pm CST/2pm EST to watch!
May 8, 2020
Join Thomas Hampson in conversation with colleagues, friends, and other major personalities of the classical music world. Every week, Thomas invites a special guest for a discussion around their favourite piece of the classical repertoire. In this episode: Diana Damrau.
Apr 28, 2020
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced an at home concert featuring some of the world’s greatest opera stars.
The concert takes place on May 1, and will showcase Diana Damrau, Cecilia Bartoli, Vittorio Grigolo, Mikhail Petrenko, Ludovic Tézier, Francesco Meli, Lisette Oropesa, Luca Salsi, Thomas Hampson, Krassimira Stoyanova, Michele Pertusi, Eva Mei, Leo Nucci, Sonya Yoncheva, Fabio Sartori, and Saioa Hernández, among others who have yet to be announced.
“the leading coloratura soprano in the world”
– New York Sun
Soprano Diana Damrau has been performing on the world’s leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans both lyric soprano and coloratura roles including the title roles in 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).
Invested as Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera (2007) and holder of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2010), Diana Damrau has forged close links with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich where she has been seen in new productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, Les contes d’Hoffmann (the four heroines), Ariadne on Naxos (Zerbinetta), The Silent Woman (Aminta), Die Zauberflöte (Queen of the Night) and Rigoletto (Gilda). Other high profile appearances have included La Traviata (Violetta), Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze) as well as Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna and Contessa d’Almaviva).
