30
Sep
“Damrau soared along effortlessly, oozing charisma, her voice offering radiant platinum brightness”.
The Arts Desk
“Damrau soared along effortlessly, oozing charisma, her voice offering radiant platinum brightness”.
The Arts Desk
30
Sep
Bad Wörishofen
“Mozart and his contemporaries”
Festival der Nationen
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Pavel Baleff, conductor
Nicolas Testé, bass
8
Oct
Sofia
“Mozart and his contemporaries”
Bulgaria Hall
Sofia Philharmonic
Pavel Baleff, conductor
Nicolas Testé, bass
23
Dec
Munich
Die Fledermaus (Role debut)
Bayerische Staatsoper
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Barrie Kosky, director
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.
Soprano Diana Damrau assumes the crowns of three different Tudor queens, the central characters in operas by Donizetti: Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena), Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda), and Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux). With Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra and Chorus of Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, she performs the substantial and climactic final scene of each work.
Sep 8, 2023
Diana Damrau starts her 2023/2024 season at the Festival der Nationen in Bad Wörishofen, where on September 30 she will reunite with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, conductor Pavel Baleff and Nicolas Testé to sing a program showcasing Mozart and composers of the same era, taking the audience on a journey into the Classical period. They will reprise this program on October 8 at Bulgaria Hall, this time accompanied by the Sofia Philharmonic.
Jul 9, 2023
After making her Festival de Peralada debut in 2015 with a recital at the Església del Carme, Diana Damrau returns to the same stage on July 29 with “Amor i vida”. Together with French bass Nicolas Testé and renowned pianist Helmut Deutsch, they will perform works by Duparc, Strauss, Gounod, Donizetti, Bellini and Léhar, among others, to offer an inspiring journey through opera, operetta, as well as Lieder and songs.
They will reprise this program at the Festival de Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche on August 4, with pianist Ramon Théobald.
Jun 16, 2023
Diana Damrau has once again been nominated for her exceptional achievements in the classical music genre in the Singer of the Year category of the Opus Klassik Awards for her most recent album, “My Christmas“.
The 2023 award winners will be selected by a nine-member jury and announced in autumn 2023. The award ceremony will take place the weekend of October 6 – 8 in Berlin.
“[...]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.
