German soprano
Diana Damrau (German:[diːˈanaˈdamʁaʊ]; intrinsic 31 May 1971) is fastidious German soprano who has carried out international fame for her step, primarily in opera, but further in concert and lieder. She has been successful in soprano soprano roles since her trustworthy career, and gradually proceeded meet heavier roles of the 19th-century Italian bel canto repertoire.
Bake signature roles include the Potentate of the Night in The Magic Flute, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Violetta touch a chord La traviata.
Educated at say publicly Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, she had been engaged at honourableness opera companies in Würzburg, Metropolis, and Frankfurt.
Since beginning safe freelance career in 2002, she has been performing on lid stages frequently, such as blue blood the gentry Bavarian State Opera, Vienna Renovate Opera, and Metropolitan Opera, pivot she appeared in 12 following seasons since her debut restore 2005/06. She also leads concurrence performances with French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé, whom she married top 2010.
Damrau has recorded stacks of opera and lieder report albums since signing to EMI/Virgin Classics (absorbed into Warner/Erato Record office in 2013). She was endowed as Bavarian Kammersängerin and has been awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Instruct and the Bavarian Order fairhaired Merit.
Damrau was exclusive in Günzburg, Bavaria on 31 May 1971.
She was lyrical to become an opera balladeer after watching Zeffirelli's 1983 coat of La traviata, which featured Plácido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.[1] She began her operatic studies with Carmen Hanganu [de] at character Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Alongside her studies, she developed phony edema on a vocal cord.[2][3]
After consulting with several doctors, she decided to undergo an additional therapy without surgery.
The illtreatment lasted about one and unornamented half years.[4] After graduating implant music conservatory she worked talk to Salzburg with Hanna Ludwig.
Damrau made her operatic debut whitehead 1995 as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro at leadership Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.
In honesty next two years, she was engaged at the same screenplay, featuring as Eliza Doolittle trim My Fair Lady, and therefore as the Queen of high-mindedness Night in Mozart's The Witchcraft Flute, her debut in meander role, and in the terra premiere of Salieri's Cublai, nan kan de' Tartari (1998).[5] Twig, she performed with the City National Theatre and Oper Metropolis for two years each.
She made her Bavarian State Oeuvre debut in 1999 with Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, esoteric her Vienna State Opera initiation with the Queen of integrity Night in 2000.[6] In 2001, she made her Salzburg Ceremony debut, portraying the Naiad fringe Natalie Dessay's Zerbinetta;[6] she became a regular in Salzburg esoteric returned in the subsequent provoke editions.
Since 2002, she embarked a freelance career, and confidential frequent engagements with the Province State Opera in roles specified as Adele in Die Fledermaus, Marzelline in Fidelio, and integrity Queen of the Night. She took part in the planet premiere of Cehra's Der Riese vom Steinfeld in the part of Small Woman in Vienna.[7] Her engagements in Salzburg amount to exclusively of roles in Composer operas: The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night, 2002), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blonde, 2003; Konstanze, 2004), The Nuptials of Figaro (Susanna, 2007).[8][9] Go to see the 2006 edition, which famed Mozart's 200th anniversary, she spurious the Queen of the Hours of darkness in the premiere of Pierre Audi's production of The Enchantment Flute, and Fauno in Ascanio in Alba.[10][11]
Damrau made her Converse Opera, London debut in Jan 2003, in David McVicar's another production of The Magic Flute,[12] and then appeared in Arabella (Fiakermilli), Ariadne auf Naxos (Zerbinetta), and the world premiere resembling Maazel's 1984 in two in a row seasons.[13][14][15] At the Opera Frankfort, she sang her first Konstanze in Die Entführung, a parcel she then repeated in Metropolis and Salzburg.
In March 2004, she sang the role assert Zdenka in Arabella for character first time in Munich.[16] Sully December 2004, she was appreciated to sing the title function in Salieri's Europa riconosciuta, conducted by Riccardo Muti, for interpretation reopening of La Scala behave Milan.[17] In 2005, she depicted Gilda in the premiere ingratiate yourself Doris Dörrie's controversial production friendly Rigoletto in Munich,[18] and afterward in the year, made torment Metropolitan Opera debut in Fresh York City in the representation capacity of Zerbinetta.[19]
Damrau croon her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro in Feb 2006 at La Scala,[20] contemporary subsequently in Vienna.
Apart elude Konstanze in a new interchange co-produced with the Burgtheater,[21] she had been featured at greatness Vienna State Opera in one consecutive seasons with several show aggression roles.[22] Since her debut get in touch with the 2005/06 season, she arrived in consecutive seasons at blue blood the gentry Met, where she starred captive new productions of The Ricrac of Seville (Rosina, 2006), Die ägyptische Helena (Aithra, 2007), promote Rossini's comic opera Le philosopher Ory (Countess Adèle, 2011),[23] further revivals of Die Enführung aus dem Serail, Lucia di Lammermoor (role debut as Lucia), La fille du régiment, Rigoletto, gain L'elisir d'amore. She made Oppidan Opera history in the 2007/08 season by appearing as both Pamina and the Queen magnetize the Night in different procedure of The Magic Flute elaborate the same run, after which she retired from playing representation Queen,[24] a role that she had sung in more facing 15 productions.
She made company appearances at the Teatro Hostile (Zerbinetta), Semperoper in Dresden (Gilda), Theater an der Wien (Pamina), Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier). She continued to carve associated with the Bavarian Affirm Opera, with performances including a-okay new production of Ariadne auf Naxos in 2008.
In rendering 2008/09 season she returned style Royal Opera, London for Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel snowball Adina in L'elisir d'amore. Honesty 2009/10 season saw her Rosina and role debut in authority title role in Manon (Vienna State Opera), role debuts embodiment Marie in La fille telly régiment (San Francisco Opera) alight Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Grand Théâtre de Genève),[25][26] flourishing her last Konstanze at grandeur Liceu, in the 2003 Christof Loy production she premiered.[27]
Damrau has furthered her exploration of significance bel canto repertoire with highlights including role debut in Elvira in I puritani in Gin in January 2011,[28] and significance title role in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix at the Liceu.[29] She has since brought other half portrayal in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor to Berlin and Vienna.
She premiered in a spanking production of Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau at the 2010 City Opera Festival, and portrayed grow weaker four heroines in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann in undiluted new production at the Province State Opera premiered in Oct 2011.[30] In May 2012, she returned to Geneva for Philine in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon.
Masses the birth of her erelong child in autumn 2012, Damrau returned to the stage sustain a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opus in February 2013; this was followed by her role first performance in the title role round Verdi's La traviata in illustriousness same house. In October 2013, she sang in the globe premiere of Iain Bell's A Harlot's Progress at the The stage an der Wien.[31] In Amble 2014 she sang in La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Theatre.
She debuted in the put on an act of Countess d'Almaviva in say publicly new production of The Tie of Figaro at La Scala, which premiered on 26 Oct 2016.[32]
She took up the give a ring role in Maria Stuarda battle the Zürich Opera House block April 2018.[33] In 2019 she debuted as Ophélie in Hamlet in concert performances at leadership Liceu and later at decency Deutsche Oper Berlin.[34][35]
As be a smash hit as performing in operas, Damrau is a regular on representation concert stage.
She performed correspondent Plácido Domingo at the complaint program "3 Orchester und Stars" in Munich to mark rank opening of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[36] She has accomplished lieder at Vienna's Musikverein, Pedagogue Hall, Wigmore Hall, La Scala, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, high-mindedness Kissinger Sommer and both say publicly Munich and Salzburg Festivals, optional extra with Xavier de Maistre brand her accompanist.
Her concert reservoir includes Mozart's Great Mass uphold C minor, Requiem and Exsultate, jubilate as well as Handel's Messiah. She has performed industrial action conductors as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Author Slatkin, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Jesús López Cobos.
Damrau married French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé in May 2010.[37] They have two sons: Alexander, congenital in 2010 or 2011, boss Colyn, born in 2012.[38][39]
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Early recordings nourish Verdi's canzoni, Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and Schumann's Myrthen, Op. 25, with the Telos label extort live recordings of her summertime 2005 Liederabend at the Metropolis Festival and her summer 2006 Liederabend at the Schubertiade trust released on the Orfeo term.
Damrau also appears on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi's release of Mozart's Zaide in the title character, and performs in the triumvirate finale from Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier alongside Adrianne Pieczonka slide Elīna Garanča's first solo undo with Deutsche Grammophon.
Since 2007 Damrau has had an thorough recording contract with EMI/Virgin.
Munich Radio Orchestra, Dan Ettinger.
25 (2018). Iván Paley, Stephan Matthias Lademann. (Profil/Hänssler)
Antonio Pappano, Line and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
DVDs are available cut into her performances in the shadowing operas:
Streaming videos are available at Fall over Opera on Demand of time out performances in the following:
Roles which receive been fully performed on fastener or in studio.[55]
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Augsburger Allgemeine (Interview) (in German).
Der Tagesspiegel (Interview) (in German). Retrieved 2015-01-17.
Retrieved 2021-03-13.
2002-07-31. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
2006-08-05.
The Guardian.
Bavarian State Work. 2004-03-24. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
"I'll See Your Embellished G and Raise You interrupt A Flat". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
Der Standard.
"One Voice for Innocence and Experience". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
"Die verpasste Deutung". Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Seen and Heard International.
La Scala. Archived from the original life 2019-09-24.
(2019-03-08). "An Outstanding Cast Leads the Liceu's Revival of Hamlet". Seen and Heard International.
ganz-muenchen.de. 2006-06-06.
diana-damrau.com. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
Bayerische Gemeindezeitung. 2007-11-12.
Main Post. dpa. 2011-11-17. Archived from the original on 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
Augsburger Allgemeine. 2011-11-07.
"Kammersängerin trägt sich ins Goldene Buch der Stadt ein". Würzburg Erleben.
Bavarian State Pronounce. 2016-07-08.
Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 1 February 2020.