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Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau

Born: 31st May 1971, Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Nationality: German

Artist's website: https://diana-damrau.com/en/

German coloratura soprano Diana Damrau was born in Gunzberg in 1971 and trained at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzberg, and sang her first roles at the city’s Mainfranken Theater. Endowed with a sizeable voice of prodigious agility and a diamantine high register, her signature-role is Mozart’s Queen of the Night, which she has performed at houses including La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden (productions from the latter two venues are available on DVD). Her repertoire also includes Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Leïla in Les pecheurs de Perles, Lucia di Lammermoor, Humperdinck’s Gretel, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Susanna and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and Elvira in I puritani, all available on DVD.

Damrau is a Warner Classics and Erato artist, and her discography for the label includes Mozart opera and concert arias (‘intelligently planned and superbly executed’ – BBC Music Magazine, Strauss orchestral lieder with Christian Thielemann and the Münchner Philharmoniker (‘Damrau’s artistry is a combination of vocal noblesse, emotional warmth and instinctive intelligence’ – Financial Times), Liszt songs with Helmut Deutsch, and an all-Meyerbeer recital entitled Grand Opera (‘Damrau’s easy grace, brilliant tone and pliant expressiveness is everywhere’ – The Guardian).

She is married to the French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé.

Find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Damrau

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  • Barrie Kosky's phantasmagorical Fledermaus from Munich

    20th Dec 2024by Katherine Cooper

    Georg Nigl, Diana Damrau and Katharina Konradi lead a stellar cast in the maverick Australian director's fever-dream production of Johann Strauss II's operetta about disguise, revenge and champagne, filmed last Christmas at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Vladimir Jurowski conducting.

    Classical Recording of the Week

  • Operette from Diana Damrau

    15th Dec 2023by Katherine Cooper

    The German coloratura soprano is on sparkling form on a whistle-stop tour of seven decades of operetta history - taking in Berlin, Paris and Vienna along the way, and including classy cameos from Jonas Kaufmann and Emily Sierra.

    Classical Recording of the Week
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