Anna Prohaska

The award-winning Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin at the age of 18 as Flora (The Turn of the Screw) and soon after with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin with whom she has been closely associated since the age of 20. Since then, her exceptional international career has taken her to the world’s most important opera houses and outstanding orchestras. She has appeared as a guest artist at La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opéra, Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Theater an der Wien and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

A regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, Anna has appeared as Vitellia, Zerlina, Despina, Susanna, and Reimann’s Cordelia (Lear), as well as in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore and for numerous concerts.

Anna Prohaska has appeared as a concert soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Rattle, Harding and Abbado, with the Vienna Philharmonic under Boulez, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jansons, Harding, Blomstedt and Nézet-Séguin, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Rattle, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Dudamel, the Cleveland Orchestra under Welser-Möst and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Dohnányi. In recent seasons she has been artist in residence at the Dortmund Konzerthaus, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and the Philharmonie Luxembourg, among others.

Highlights of the 2020/21 season included her role debut as Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Ännchen (Der Freischütz) at the Bavarian State Opera and Merab (Saul) at the Theater an der Wien. Anna Prohaska was also artist in residence at the Berlin Konzerthaus, where she could be heard in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Philippe Jaroussky under Andrea Marcon. Other highlights included Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, a concert of works by Haydn and Mozart under Ádám Fischer at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and appearances with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Alan Gilbert.

In the 2021/22 season Anna Prohaska has appeared as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) under Barenboim, as Aricie (Hippolyte et Aricie) and in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri under Rattle and as Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) and Anna Reich (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) at the Berlin State Opera. She also returned to the Bavarian State Opera as Ännchen and sang Susanna at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine. In addition she toured with the ensemble il Pomo d’Oro and presented her new programme, Witch of Endor, with Nicholas Altstaedt and Francesco Corti as part of their Babylon Trio at Musikfest Berlin.

Anna Prohaska’s discography includes a series of solo CDS. Sirène (2011), Enchanted Forest (2013) and Behind the Lines (2014), all for Deutsche Grammophon, have been followed by four albums for Alpha Classics that topped the classical music charts: Serpent & Fire with Il Giardino Armonico, Paradise Lost with Julius Drake, Bach: Redemption with lautten compagney, and, most recently, Celebration of Life in Death with La Folia and Robin Peter Müller.