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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.
Mar 12, 2023
On March 30 and March 31 Ms Damrau revisits the role of Countess Madeleine, singing the final scene of Richard Strauss’ Capriccio. With Cristian Măcelaru on the podium, she will perform at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. The full program also features two of the most beautiful orchestral pieces in the repertoire: The Tombeau resplendissant by Messiaen and Tchaikovsky’s Symphonie pathétique.
Dec 29, 2022
Due to illness, Ms Damrau has withdrawn from the Berlin performances.
Diana Damrau starts her 2023 performances in Berlin, where she’ll sing the final scene from Richard Strauss’ “Capriccio” and three of his Lieder with an orchestral accompaniment: Ständchen op. 17/2, Wiegenlied op. 41/1 and Morgen op. 27/4. The Staatskapelle Berlin, led by Cristian Măcelaru, will also perform Bartók’s “The Wooden Prince” in the second part of the program. The two concerts will take place on January 9 and 10.
She will then travel to Naples to sing the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Teatro Politeama on January 20 and 22. The other soloists will be Edna Prochnik, Bernard Richter and Ludovic Tézier, with Dan Ettinger on the podium.
Dec 21, 2022
At 7:15 pm CET on Christmas Eve, Diana Damrau will be featured on ZDF with her colleague Jonas Kaufmann at St. Annenkirche in Annaberg-Buchholz, a magnificent backdrop for a festive Christmas concert. The colourful programme includes traditional Christmas carols, classical and baroque music, and jazz and pop sounds, and will be accompanied by the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue conducted by Jens Georg Bachmann.
Also featured are bass René Pape, British pianist Alexis Ffrench, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the Norwegian singer Rebekka Bakken and TikTok and Instagram star Sophie – and as musical representatives of the Ore Mountains, the “Frisch Glück” and the youth choir of the Evangelische SchulGemeinschaft Erzgebirge.
– Operawire
