The multi-award-winning Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska made her stage debut at the age of 18 as Flora (The Turn of the Screw) at the Komische Oper Berlin, and at the age of 23 joined the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera. Since then, her exceptional career has taken her to the world’s most important opera houses and orchestras. She has appeared as a guest artist at opera houses and festivals including La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, MusikTheater an der Wien and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Anna Prohaska is a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, where she has appeared as Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Despina (Così fan tutte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Cordelia (Lear), in Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore and in numerous concerts.
Highlights of 2025/26 have included the Governess in Deborah Warner’s new production of The Turn of the Screw at the Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Antigone under Klaus Mäkelä in Paris, a return to the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, as Zabelle in George Benjamin’s Picture a day like this and Susanna at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, and with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Varian Fry Quartet and the Phantasm Viol Consort, sang in Henze’s Das Floß der Medusa under Simon Rattle and joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for their tour of Europe.
She has appeared as a concert soloist with orchestras including the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, Mariss Jansons, Franz Welser-Möst and Christoph von Dohnányi.
Anna Prohaska’s discography includes a series of solo CDs: Sirène (2011), Enchanted Forest (2013) and Behind the Lines (2014), all for Deutsche Grammophon; Serpent & Fire with Il Giardino Armonico, Paradise Lost with Julius Drake, Bach: Redemption with lautten compagney, Celebration of Life in Death with La Folia and Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments with Isabelle Faust. Most recently she released Maria Mater Meretrix with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern for Alpha Classics.
Anna Prohaska’s awards include the Kunstpreis Berlin and the 2024 OPUS Klassik.
