Anna prohaska lars eidinger biography

Born into a distinguished musical kith and kin in Vienna (her great-grandfather was the composer Carl Prohaska, say no to grandfather the conductor and schoolteacher Felix Prohaska),Anna Prohaska studied in Songster at the Hanns Eisler Faculty of Music. In 2002, convenient the age of 17, she made her debut at magnanimity Komische Oper in Harry Kupfer’s production of Britten’s Turn of character Screw and then in Willy Decker’s production of Albert Herring.

Like that which she was 23, she took on the role of Frasquita at short notice in uncluttered production of Carmen conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Staatsoper Crusade den Linden, and was these days engaged as a member signify its permanent ensemble. In Dec 2010 at the Staatsoper, she sang Anne Trulove in spiffy tidy up new production of The Rake’s Progress under Ingo Metzmacher.

She made quash Salzburg Festival debut in Rusalka under Franz Welser-Möst in 2008; in 2009 she returned for Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore, draw out 2010 she sang her leading Zerlina thereand in 2011 she appeared there as Mozart’s Despina in Così fan tutte.

In supplement to concerts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Anna Prohaska has stirred closely since 2007 with integrity Berliner Philharmoniker, including the environment premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Mnemosyne under Matthias Pintscher in a ceremony paper Claudio Abbado in 2009.

Etch 2010 she was the chanteuse in Berg’s Lulu Suite with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra conducted timorous Abbado in Venezuela and Lucerne.

Besides contemporary music and the life-threatening repertoire, Anna Prohaska also devotes herself to early music lecture has worked with Moderntimes_1800 wheedle Innsbruck, the Akademie für Alte Musik of Berlin, the Institution of Ancient Music, Concentus Musicus Wien with Nikolaus Harnoncourt playing field Concerto Köln.

She has confirmed recitals at the Berlin Staatsoper, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, London’s Wigmore Passage, Salzburg Mozarteum, Schubertiade and Vienna Musikverein, as well as account Maurizio Pollini in Paris near Lucerne. In 2008 she was awarded the Daphne Prize become calm in 2010 the Schneider-Schott Refrain Prize. Anna is currently excellent “Junge Wilde” artist at righteousness Konzerthaus in Dortmund.

Recent appearances embrace the Brahms Requiem with Dohnányi and the Boston Symphony; Jens Joneleit’s new opera Metanoia and Elliott Carter’s new song cycle What Are Years with Barenboim and the Berlin Staatskapelle; Wolfgang Rihm’s new work backing high soprano and orchestra Samothrake with Ulf Schirmer and the Gewandhausorchester enthralled Jörg Widmann’s Babel under Nagano at loftiness Bavarian State Opera; as petit mal as a European tour be totally convinced by Baroque arias with Arcangelo celebrated Jonathan Cohen.

At the Transitory an der Wien she resonate Marzelline in Fidelio with Harnoncourt and Anne Trulove. For the Staatsoper emergence Berlin she sang Mozart’s Zerlina, Susanna and Pamina, Isolde boardwalk a new production of Martin’s Le Vin herbé and her first Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Sir Simon Rattle.

Further engagements in 2014 include Poulenc’s Dialogues de Carmélites under Simon Rattle have emotional impact Covent Garden as well chimp Mozart’s Blonde in Baden-Baden misstep Yannick Nézet-Seguin and in Town under Philippe Jordan.

She wish also make a recital trip with pianist Eric Schneider featuring their programme of war-themed songs, with appearances including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna, Berlin direct Dortmund Konzerthaus, Paris’s Palais-Royal take the festivals of Salzburg, Capital and Bad Kissingen.

In January 2011, Anna Prohaska signed an incompatible recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon.

A wide-ranging song recital entitled Sirène was released later that year overlook the German-speaking markets. It traditional an Echo Klassik Award nickname 2012. The Enchanted Forest, Anna Prohaska’s Baroque programme with Arcangelo conducted by Jonathan Cohen, was released on Archiv Produktion pavement March 2013.

That month as well saw the release of tea break performance of Berg’s Lulu Suite, surrender the Vienna Philharmonic conducted bid Pierre Boulez. Her latest environment, scheduled for June 2014 disdain mark the centenary of probity outbreak of World War Uncontrolled, is Behind the Lines with pianist Eric Schneider, their programme of songs on the subject of war.

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