Es war ein Anruf, mit dem am Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz vermutlich niemand gerechnet hatte: »Hallo, hier spricht Diana Damrau …«. Sie habe mitbekommen, dass unser Fundus und die Probebühnen abgebrannt seien und hätte sich lange überlegt, wie sie dem Theater Ulm helfen könne – denn dass sie helfen wollte, war keine Frage, berichtet uns das Theater Ulm. Nun kommt sie nach Ulm und tritt auch auf: im Rahmen der Großen Opern-Benefizgala am 29. Oktober 2026 mit Werken von von Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini und vielen weiteren.
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Diana Damrau returns to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden on October 20 and 21 to sing Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with Christian Thielemann leading the Staatskapelle.
This song cycle was amongst Richard Strauss’ final compositions, completed in 1948, and revolve around the themes of life and death. The second half of the program features the Alpensinfonie, which premiered in 1915, and with which Strauss concluded his series of tone poems.
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Making her first appearance in Hanoi on July 10, Diana Damrau will participate in an opera gala alongside Marina Viotti and Javier Camarena.
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Diana Damrau returns this spring to the role of Contessa di Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, singing opposite Gerald Finley as Conte di Almaviva, and with Joélle Harvey as Susanna, Luca Micheletti as Figaro, Kate Lindsey as Cherubino and Juliane Banse as Marcellina.
With much love for tempo and situation comedy, the staging by Evgeny Titov examines humanity’s fragility. Patrick Hahn conducts the three performances on May 16, 20 and 24.
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This spring, Diana Damrau makes her much-awaited role debut as the title role in Richard Strauss’ Arabella, after having already sung Zdenka and Fiakermilli in the same opera.
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To bring the year to a spectacular close, Diana Damrau will once again star as Rosalinde in Otto Schenk’s beloved production of Die Fledermaus at the Wiener Staatsoper. The performances take place on New Year’s Eve, January 3 and 6. She will share the stage with her friend and habitual colleague Jonas Kaufmann as Gabriel von Eisenstein, and with Jochen Schmeckenbecher as Frank, Daria Sushkova as Prinz Orlofsky, Jörg Schneider as Alfred, Adrian Eröd as Dr Falke, Lukas Schmidt as Dr Blind, Ilia Staple as Adele, and Hannah-Theres Weigl as Ida. Markus Poschner conducts.
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On November 23, Diana Damrau will pay homage to composer Johann Strauss on the occasion of his 200th birthday, and to Marie Geistinger, the first director of the Theatre an der Wien and the most famous German-speaking operetta diva at the time. Strauss wrote the main roles of his first four pieces for her, and the program will revolve around these pieces alongside some of the roles Strauss wrote for her rivals, uniting all the historical divas in a present-day one and painting a complete picture of Viennese operetta full of fire and joie de vivre.
Ms Damrau joins forces with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, led by conductor Ernst Theis, and with Michael Dangl, who created the concept ideas and text, and who will also perform.
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On September 21, the curtain will rise on Richard Strauss’s masterpiece Der Rosenkavalier at the Opernhaus Zürich. This performance marks the 30th anniversary of SRG and ARTE’s partnership and will be broadcast by both broadcasters.
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After this year’s critically acclaimed debut as the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (“Diana Damrau’s Marschallin achieved a heavenly perfection that hovered over everything else in this performance” – Bachtrack), Diana Damrau returns to the role this autumn, in a new production by Lydia Steier based on an extant set, and Joana Mallwitz at the musical helm. Günther Groissböck sings Ochs, with Angela Brower as Octavian, Emily Pogorelc as Sophie, and Bo Skovhus as Herr von Faninal. The performances take place from September 21 to October 26.
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