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Autumn performances

Diana Damrau starts her season in the US, flying back across the Atlantic to perform at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Gustavo Dudamel on September 12. The audience will be treated to a lively program of operetta arias and duets by Léhar and Johann Strauss Jr.

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Diana Damrau returns to the role of Contessa at the Bayerische Staatsoper to sing two performances on July 14 and 17, replacing an indisposed colleague.

The rest of the cast features Mattia Olivieri, Louise Alder, Konstantin Krimmel, Avery Amereau, Dorothea Röschmann and Willard White. Stefano Montanari conducts.

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After making her much-awaited debut as Rosalinde this past Christmas season, Diana Damrau returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper on July 31 to sing one more performance of Die Fledermaus as part of the Münchner Opernfestspiele. The original cast remains, with the addition of Constantin Trinks as the conductor.

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Diana Damrau’s latest DVD, a recording of her Lieder recital with Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch at the Wiener Musikverein, comes out on June 7. The evening’s music took the audience on an emotional journey of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms’ most romantic songs.

Pre-order it now!

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“Amor y Vida” Tour

On June 2 Diana starts a mini-tour of “Amor y Vida”, a program of selected works by Mozart, Richard Strauss, Donizetti, Lehár and others, revolving around love and life.

At the Carmen Würth Forum, Pavel Baleff will conduct the Würth Philharmoniker. Then they travel to Brazil to perform at the Sala São Paulo on June 15 and 18, where Maestro Baleff will lead the Orquestra Acadêmica Mozarteum Brasileiro.

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On May 16, Diana Damrau will take part in a concert gala celebrating Antonio Pappano’s 23-year tenure as Music Director of the Royal Opera House. Joining her will be a cast of world-famous guest artists. All proceeds from this evening will benefit The Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation.

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The upcoming Operette Tour, “Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden,” takes Diana Damrau and Nikolai Schukoff through Germany with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and conductor Dirk Kaftan. For the last concert in Budapest, they will be joined by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Ernst Theis.

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Diana Damrau will perform works by Richard Strauss at the Opernhaus Zürich on April 14. The centrepiece of the evening is the closing scene from Strauss’ Capriccio, in which whether the music or the text is more important is a question that gets asked, but not answered.

The program also features the tone poem “Macbeth”, the three glittering Lieder “Ständchen”, “Wiegenlied” and “Morgen!”, and four interludes from the opera Intermezzo. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Philharmonia Zürich.

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Spring in Vienna

On March 30 and 31, join Diana Damrau and Manfred Honeck conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein for two evenings of operetta and sacred music to usher in spring. You can watch the LIVE performance on March 31 via ORF III.

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