8
Dec
“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
11
Dec
ZDF
Advent Concert on ZDF
Broadcast date: December 11, 2022, from 5:55 p.m. on ZDF
Marie Jacquot, conductor
Diana Damrau, soprano
Nicole Chirka, mezzo-soprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
Martin-Jan Nijhof, bass
11
Dec
Baden-Baden
Christmas concert
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Riccardo Minasi, conductor
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.
Nov 28, 2022
Diana Damrau has a busy Christmas season ahead of her. She will make several TV appearances, starting with an interview on November 29, LIVE on ZDF Morgenmagazin, from around 8:20 until 8:50 am CET. The concert recorded at the Frauenkirche Dresden on November 26 will be broadcast on December 11 from 5:55 pm CET on ZDF (the concert is available to watch online until December 11). On December 18, she will be featured on Bayerischer Rundfunk TV in a 15-minute portrait segment titled “Advent and Christmas with Diana Damrau”, where she will take us to her hometown of Günzburg, to talk about her childhood memories and what is particularly important to her at Christmas time as a mother of two children. This segment will air at 6:45 pm CET. Lastly, on December 24, she will be part of ZDF’s “Christmas with Jonas Kaufmann”, recorded at St. Annenkirche in Annaberg-Buchholz.
Her Christmas tour, in which she’ll sing excerpts from her newly released album “My Christmas“, will allow audiences to share in the joy of the season. To purchase tickets for the performance closest to you, check below.
Nov 19, 2022
Bringing extra star power to this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on December 8, Diana Damrau will take the stage to pay tribute to the 2022 laureates, making her debut at the Konserthuset Stockholm. Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, with a program of opera arias by Mozart, among others.
For more information, visit the Konserthuset Stockholm’s website. This concert is sold out.
Nov 6, 2022
On the eve of Advent Sunday, November 26, Diana Damrau will sing an Advent concert with Mauro Peter, Nicole Chirka and Martin-Jan Nijhof at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. With conductor Marie Jacquot on the podium, it will be an evening not to be missed. The program includes works by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Humperdinck. If you can’t attend the concert in person, you will still be able to watch it on December 11, 2022, at 5.55 pm CEST via ZDF.
“[...]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.
