The soprano Diana Damrau has been a regular guest for two decades at leading international opera houses and concert halls, as well as at renowned music festivals. Her extensive repertory includes principal and title roles in Die Fledermaus (Bavarian State Opera in Munich), Capriccio (Zurich Opera House, Bavarian State Opera), Le nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Milan, Munich), Anna Bolena (Zurich Opera House, Vienna State Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Munich, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Manon (Vienna, the Met), Roméo et Juliette (the Met, La Scala) and La traviata (La Scala, the Met, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, Munich), and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (the Met, the Salzburg Festival, Vienna, Covent Garden, Munich).
The Metropolitan Opera in New York has become a second home for Diana Damrau. Since her house debut in 2005 as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) she has made seven role debuts there, sung many of her signature roles and appeared in new productions as Gilda (Rigoletto), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Adèle (Le Comte Ory) and Léïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles). Many of her performances have been relayed live to cinemas.
Highlights of 2024/25 have included concerts under Nathalie Stutzmann in Zurich, an operetta evening at the Festival of Nations, a New Year’s concert with Mauro Peter under Christian Thielemann in Berlin and her role debut as the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Berlin State Opera. Early in 2025 she and her musical partners Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch began their second European tour, following their first in 2022 with the programme Liebeslieder (released on DVD).
As an exclusive artist with Warner Classics / Erato, she recorded several solo albums, which have won awards including the ECHO and OPUS Klassik awards. Her work is also documented on numerous complete opera recordings.
Diana Damrau is a Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera (2007), and has been awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (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
