Annette Dasch
Vienna Volksoper - Alma
A dream role for Annette Dasch, who transforms herself ... with both verve and voice into this stage-filling superwoman.
Die Welt, October 31, 2024 De Netherlands Opera Amsterdam - The first humans
Soprano Annette Dasch plays the sexually unbridled Chawa and masters her character's ecstatic outbursts with confidence, without resorting to excessive vocal sharpness.
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
VIENNA VOLKSOPER
Strauss - Die Fledermaus - Rosalinde
Sep 4/12/16
Eisenreich - Cinderella's Dream - Ida Grünwald
PREMIERE Nov 29
Dec 4/7/12/15/21/29, Jan 4/8/24, Feb 2/8
Benatzky - Weißes Rössl - Wirtin
March 10/20, April 11/19
Kalman - Csardasfürstin - Silva Varescu
May 25, June 2
TOKYO FESTIVAL
Concert with the Fauré Quartet
Oct 8
FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN
Concert with the Fauré Quartet
Oct 17
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OPER GRAZ
Berg - Wozzeck - Marie
PREMIERE Feb 13
Feb 26/28, March 4/8/13/15/18
HAMBURG STATE OPERA
Schumann - Women's Love and Death
Apr 17, May 15
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Berg - Wozzeck - Marie
Apr 26
LIED BASEL
Artist in Residence
May 26 - 31
TEATRO ARRIAGA BILBAO
Bieito/Dasch - Vastitas Mundi
June 19/20
Biography
Annette Dasch is one of the most important sopranos of our time. Her engagements have led her to venues such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bayreuth Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Salzburg Festival.
In the 2025/26 season, she will be seen in a world premiere at the Vienna Volksoper, as Marie (Wozzeck) in Graz and London, and as Artist in Residence at Lied Basel. She works with orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and conductors such as Barenboim, Thielemann, Harnoncourt, and Rattle. Her repertoire ranges from Mozart to Wagner, and her recordings have received numerous awards. In 2014, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
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Following the successful world premiere of Alma with Annette Dasch in the title role, the Vienna Volksoper has also secured the artist for the 2025/26 season for another world premiere, presenting her as Ida Grünwald in the fairy tale operetta Aschenbrödels Traum by Martina Eisenreich and Axel Ranisch. In addition, Annette Dasch will perform at this house as Rosalinde (Fledermaus), the Innkeeper (Im weißen Rössl), and as the Csardasfürstin. At the Graz Opera, the soprano will make her role debut as Marie in Wozzeck and will also present herself in this role in a concert performance of the Berg Opera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in London, before being engaged as Artist in residence by Lied Basel. At the Teatro Arriaga, her project Vastitas, conceived by her and directed by Calixto Bieito, will have its world premiere. She will also be a guest with the Fauré Quartet in Tokyo and Dresden.
Her most important roles include the Marschallin (New National Theater Tokyo), Katia Kabanova (Komische Oper Berlin), Jenufa (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Elisabeth (Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, Oper Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich), Elsa (Bayreuth Festival, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Vienna State Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Oper Frankfurt), Eva (Budapest Festival, Metropolitan Opera New York), Foreign Princess (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Jenny (Festival Aix-en-Provence, Oper Zurich, Deutsche Oper Berlin), Chawa (Nederlandse Oper Amsterdam, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao), Ghita (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Donna Elvira (Teatro alla Scala Milan, Berlin State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich), Contessa (Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Teatro Real Madrid, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, Metropolitan Opera New York, Oper Frankfurt), Fiordiligi (Bayerische Staatsoper Munich), Armida (Salzburg Festival), Alice (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Antonia (Opéra National de Paris), Rezia (Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Theater an der Wien), Martin's Juliette (Oper Zurich), Cordelia (Opéra de Paris), Rosalinde (Vienna State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin), Merry Widow (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Csardas Princess (Oper Zurich), Dubarry (Vienna Volksoper), among others.
In concert, she collaborates with orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre de Paris, the RSB Berlin, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Akademie für Alte Musik, and the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, as well as with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paavo Järvi, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Helmuth Rilling, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Christian Thielemann. Her recitals regularly take her to the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Wigmore Hall London, and the philharmonics of Cologne and Essen.
Annette Dasch studied at the University of Music in Munich, among other institutions. Her debut CD, Armida (SONY), was awarded the ECHO Klassik award for the best opera recording. Her current discography includes Mozart arias (SONY), Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann (SONY), Wagner's Lohengrin under Marek Janowski (PentaTone), and the Lohengrin from the 2011 Bayreuth Festival (Opus Arte). Other recordings include Deutsche Barocklieder, Schumann’s Genoveva, Haydn’s Schöpfung, Re Pastore (DG), and Don Giovanni from the Salzburg Festival, Idomeneo from Munich, and Nozze di Figaro from Paris.
Annette Dasch was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2014.
2025/26
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