27
Nov
29
Dec
Berlin
New Year’s Eve Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, conductor
Diana Damrau, soprano
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic dances from West Side Story
And works by Cole Porter, Carl Loewe and Kurt Weill
30
Dec
Berlin
New Year’s Eve Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, conductor
Diana Damrau, soprano
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic dances from West Side Story
And works by Cole Porter, Carl Loewe and Kurt Weill
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).
Label: BelAir Classiques/Naxos
Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Nicolas Testé
Evelino Pidò, conductor
Emilio Sagi, director
Release date: November 3, 2017
A jewel of bel canto, and Bellini’s last masterpice, I Puritani encapsulates every major theme held dear by the Italian romantic generation: a love triangle, quid pro quos, a shattered love affair leading to madness, set in Cromwell’s England with its lot of political rivalries. It is also an ode to resistance and to freedom, echoing the political struggles that the Italian peninsula was facing in the 1830’s. But it is mainly a testament to Bellini’s unique musical brand, a genius combination of melodic brightness, post-rossinian ornaments, and a profound and melancolic lamento that owes much to traditional Neapolitan songs.
Sep 16, 2019
In November, Diana Damrau joins legendary conductor Mariss Jansons and Sir Antonio Pappano in performing Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder.
The concerts with Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, Antwerp and New York, also include in the program Strauss’ Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4, as well as a selection of other Strauss Lieder that won’t be included in the Carnegie Hall performance.
For her performance with Maestro Pappano in Amsterdam, she sings Vier letzte Lieder in addition to selections by Rossini, Bizet, Wagner, and Berg.
For the London and Hamburg concerts on November 13 and 15, Ms Damrau has compiled a program together with the London Philharmonic Orchestra that lives from its nuances: both the lieder of Richard Strauss and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 still belong clearly to the Romantic period, but the spirit of a new era can be felt throughout these scores, ambiguous and cryptic. Vladimir Jurowski leads these two performances.
See below for a full list of dates and locations.
Warner Classics’s recording of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, featuring Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann with Helmut Deutsch at the piano, has been shortlisted for a 2019 Gramophone Classical Music Awards: Solo Vocal.
The Awards ceremony takes place in London at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms on October 16. Individual tickets and tables for the ceremony are available to purchase here.
Presented with Apple Music, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s Polska Music programme and Medici TV, this year’s Awards Ceremony will be streamed live from the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms by Medici TV at 6.30pm (UK time).
Radio Romania is scheduled to broadcast Diana’s Lieder recital with harpist Xavier de Maistre on September 1 and her concert with Gianandrea Noseda on September 3 LIVE from the Enescu Festival.
During the broadcast of the recital from the Romanian Athenaeum the listeners will be treated to the program she has been touring around Europe, which includes Lieder by Felix Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Vlasov, Hahn and Poulenc, as well as two pieces by Liszt and Debussy, arranged for solo harp by de Maistre himself. Tune in at 16:30 EEST / 9:30 am EDT.
For the concert with maestro Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Sala Palatului, she premieres Iain Bell’s The Hidden Place, a song cycle written for her by the British composer; and sings the final scene of Richard Strauss’ Capriccio. This concert can be heard at 20:00 EEST / 1 pm EDT.
Follow this link to check the program and listen LIVE to Radio Romania. The September 1 program will also be recorded and available for archived listening here.
– New York Sun
