Diana Damrau

To numerous, Diana Damrau may be the complete coloratura soprano: with a lovely tone of voice and astounding technique that allow her to attain the best notes with seeming ease, she’s a keen feeling for drama, providing her operatic personas true emotions and total believability. She also exudes a likeable quality on-stage, and, her many enthusiasts eagerly take note, sex charm. While she actually is perhaps most widely known for tasks in Mozart and Richard Strauss operas, her repertory consumes operas by Vivaldi, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and many more. She also sings lieder by Richard Strauss, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Robert and Clara Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Mahler, Berg, and Wolf. Damrau offers appeared in the Met countless instances since 2005 and offers made regular looks at Covent Backyard, the Vienna Condition Opera, Bavarian Condition Opera, with the best concert locations, including Carnegie Hall as well as the Vienna Musikverein. Damrau’s recordings can be found from EMI, Virgin Classics, DG, Opus Arte, and additional major brands. Diana Damrau was created in Günzburg, Germany, on, may 31, 1971. Her vocal research were in the Würzburg Musikhochschule, where her educators included Carmen Hanganu. Damrau got further research in Salzburg with Hanna Ludwig. Damrau gradually built her profession, beginning with looks in the Stadttheater Würzburg, and in the Nationaltheater Mannheim as well as the Frankfurt Opera. During this time period Damrau frequently sang in operettas (e.g., Lehár’s The Merry Widow) and musicals (My Good Woman). Damrau debuted at Covent Backyard in 2003 as the Queen of the night time in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The next yr she sang the name part in Salieri’s L’Europa riconosciuta inside a tv transmit from La Scala, Riccardo Muti performing. The breakthroughs continuing with her 2005 Met debut as Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. In November 2007 Damrau astounded Met viewers when she sang Pamina for six shows and, in the same work, the challenging Queen of the night time for just two. 2007 was also the entire year her first main recordings were released, six of these! They included The Magic Flute (Decca), Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba (DG), and Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Telos). Following the delivery of a boy this year 2010, Damrau resumed her occupied plan: in January 2011 she sang Elvira in Bellini’s I puritani in Geneva, and returned towards the Met in March and Apr 2011 as Countess Advertisementèle in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory so that as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto.