Diana Damrau is a German soprano who achieved international fame for her performances, primarily in opera, but in concert and lieder.
23 Facts About Diana Damrau
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Diana Damrau has been successful in coloratura soprano roles since her early career, and gradually proceeded into heavier roles 19th-century Italian bel canto repertoire.
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Diana Damrau leads concert performances with French bass-baritone Nicholas Teste, whom she married in 2010.
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Diana Damrau was invested as Bavarian Kammersangerin and has been awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and the Bavarian Order of Merit.
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Diana Damrau was born in Gunzburg, Bavaria on 31 May 1971.
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Diana Damrau was inspired to become an opera singer after watching Zeffirelli's 1983 film of La traviata, which featured Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.
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Diana Damrau began her operatic studies with Carmen Hanganu at the Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg.
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Diana Damrau made her operatic debut in 1995 as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro at the Mainfranken Theater Wurzburg.
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Diana Damrau made her Bavarian State Opera debut in 1999 with Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, and her Vienna State Opera debut with the Queen of the Night in 2000.
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Diana Damrau took part in the world premiere of Cehra's Der Riese vom Steinfeld in the role of Small Woman in Vienna.
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Diana Damrau made her Royal Opera, London debut in January 2003, in David McVicar's new production of The Magic Flute, and then appeared in Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, and the world premiere of Maazel's 1984 in two consecutive seasons.
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Diana Damrau sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro in February 2006 at La Scala, and subsequently in Vienna.
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Diana Damrau made guest appearances at the Teatro Real, Semperoper in Dresden, Theater an der Wien, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
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Diana Damrau continued to be associated with the Bavarian State Opera, with performances including a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos in 2008.
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Diana Damrau has furthered her exploration of the bel canto repertoire with highlights including role debut in Elvira in I puritani in Geneva in January 2011, and the title role in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix at the Liceu.
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Diana Damrau has since brought her portrayal in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor to Berlin and Vienna.
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Diana Damrau premiered in a new production of Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau at the 2010 Munich Opera Festival, and portrayed all four heroines in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann in a new production at the Bavarian State Opera premiered in October 2011.
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Diana Damrau debuted in the role of Countess d'Almaviva in the new production of The Marriage of Figaro at La Scala, which premiered on 26 October 2016.
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Diana Damrau took up the title role in Maria Stuarda at the Zurich Opera House in April 2018.
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Diana Damrau performed alongside Placido Domingo at the concert program "3 Orchester und Stars" in Munich to mark the opening of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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Diana Damrau has performed lieder at Vienna's Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, La Scala, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, the Kissinger Sommer and both the Munich and Salzburg Festivals, especially with Xavier de Maistre as her accompanist.
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Diana Damrau has performed with conductors as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Leonard Slatkin, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Jesus Lopez Cobos.
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Diana Damrau appears on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi's release of Mozart's Zaide in the title role, and performs in the trio finale from Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier alongside Adrianne Pieczonka on Elina Garanca's first solo release with Deutsche Grammophon.