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.
Seen and Heard International (June 29, 2021
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
VIENNA VOLKSOPER
Ostrich - Die Fledermaus - Rosalinde
Sep 4/12/16
Benatzky - Weißes Rössl - Wirtin
March 10/20, April 11/19
Kalman - Csardasfürstin - Silva Varescu
May 25, June 2
TOKYO FESTIVAL
Concert with Fauré Quartet
Oct 8
FRAUENKIRCHE DRESDEN
Concert with 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. Engagements have taken her to, among others, La Scala in Milan, the Bayreuth Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival.
In the 2025/26 season, she will appear as Marie ( Wozzeck ) in Graz and London, among other roles, and will be Artist in Residence at Lied Basel. She has worked 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, it will be performed in Vienna. Volksoper as Rosalinde ( bat ), Wirtin ( The White Horse Inn ) and as Csardasfürstin She will perform. At the Graz Opera, the soprano will make her role debut as Marie in Wozzeck and will also perform this role in a concert performance of Berg's opera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in London, before being engaged as artist-in-residence at the Basel Theatre. At the Teatro Arriaga, her project Vastitas , directed by Calixto Bieito, will have its world premiere. She will also perform with the Fauré Quartet in Tokyo and Dresden.
Her most notable roles include the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier, New National Theatre Tokyo), Katia Kabanova (Komische Oper Berlin), Jenůfa (Dutch National Opera), Elisabeth (Don Carlo, Vlaamse Opera, Frankfurt, Bavarian State Opera), Elsa (Lohengrin at Bayreuth Festival, La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Frankfurt, and Liceu Barcelona), Eva (Die Meistersinger, Budapest Festival and the Metropolitan Opera New York), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni at La Scala, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden, Teatro Real Madrid, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Met, and Frankfurt), Fiordiligi (Munich), Armida (Salzburg Festival), Antonia (Opéra National de Paris), Rezia (Bavarian State Opera, Theater an der Wien), Martinů’s Juliette (Zurich Opera), Cordelia (Lear, Opéra de Paris), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus at Vienna, Munich, and Deutsche Oper Berlin), and the title roles in The Merry Widow, Die Csárdásfürstin, and Gräfin Dubarry.
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 Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Her debut album Armida (Sony Classical) won an ECHO Klassik Award for Best Opera Recording. Other recordings include Mozart Arias (Sony), Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann (Sony), Lohengrin under Marek Janowski (PentaTone) and from the 2011 Bayreuth Festival (Opus Arte), as well as Deutsche Barocklieder, Schumann’s Genoveva, Haydn’s Creation, Re Pastore (DG), Don Giovanni from Salzburg, Idomeneo from Munich, and Le nozze di Figaro from Paris.
In 2014, Annette Dasch was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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