Since her stage debut 25 years ago, the soprano Diana Damrau has been a regular guest at leading international opera houses and concert halls, as well as at renowned music festivals. Her extensive repertoire includes the title roles of Anna Bolena (Zurich Opera, Vienna State Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Manon (Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera) and La traviata (La Scala, the Met, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, Bavarian State Opera), as well as Amalia in I masnadieri (Bavarian State Opera), Juliette in Roméo et Juliette (the Met, La Scala), and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (the Met, the Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Bavarian State Opera). In the 2021/22 season she made her role debut as the Countess (Capriccio) at the Bavarian State Opera. She also regularly appears on the operatic stage in contemporary repertoire.
As an exclusive artist with Warner Classics / Erato, she recorded Arie di Bravura, a collection of Mozart and Salieri arias. Further solo albums followed, which won awards including the ECHO and OPUS Klassik awards. Her work is also documented on various complete opera recordings both on CD and DVD.
As a concert singer and recitalist Diana Damrau has been resident artist at London’s Barbican Centre, and appeared in New Year concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko and on tour in the USA, South America and Asia. She performed Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch and love songs by Schumann and Brahms on two European tours with Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch.
In the 2022/23 season she will undertake a European tour with Xavier de Maistre, and present her new Christmas album. She will also perform Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, and scenes from a selection of Strauss operas with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden and the Vienna Musikverein. In addition, she will tour extensively in Asia with the programme Kings & Queens of Opera, and make her role debut as Mimì (La bohème) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
Diana Damrau is a Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera (2007), and has been awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Art and Science (2010) and the Federal Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany (2021). She has been voted Singer of the Year several times, including by the magazine Opernwelt, at the International Opera Awards, by Opera News and in Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice. In 2020 an asteroid was named after her.
