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 26/27 and Highlights
OPER KÖLN
Festival of Operetta
Oct 4
Germering Town Hall
Concert with Fauré Quartet
Oct 9
MINORITENKIRCHE
Mozart – Requiem
Nov 1
DORNBIRN
Concert with Fauré Quartet
Nov 19
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Vienna VOLKSOPER
Heuberger – The Opera Ball
PREMIERE Dec 5OPÉRA NICE CÔTE D'AZUR
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde
Jan 27/31, Feb 3THEATRE DORTMUND
All Nine – The Operetta Show
Feb 7DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA
Yun – Red Fox
March 13/15/18/20/28
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 Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bayreuth Festival and the Salzburg Festival.
In the 2026/27 season, she will appear, among other roles, as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur, as Shawna in the world premiere of Red Fox at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and as Marguérite in Richard Heuberger's Der Opernball at the Volksoper Vienna. Concert engagements take her to operetta galas in Cologne and Dortmund, as well as to various cities in Germany and Austria with the Fauré Quartet. She works with orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics 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 German Federal Cross of Merit.
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Among the highlights of past seasons was the successful world premiere of Alma with Annette Dasch in the title role. At the Vienna Volksoper she played Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), the innkeeper (Im weißen Rössl). and in Die Csardasfürstin. At Graz Opera, the soprano made her role debut as Marie in Wozzeck and also performed this role in a concert performance of Berg's opera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in London. At the Teatro Arriaga, her project Vastitas, directed by Calixto Bieito, premiered.
The most important roles in her repertoire include the Marschallin (New National Theatre Tokyo), Katya Kabanova (Komische Oper Berlin), Jenůfa (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam), Elisabeth (Flemish Opera Antwerp, Frankfurt Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich), Elsa (Bayreuth Festival, La Scala Milan, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Vienna State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona), Eva (Budapest Festival, Metropolitan Opera New York), the Foreign Princess (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam), Jenny (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Zurich Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin ), Chawa (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao), Ghita (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam), Donna Elvira (La Scala Milan, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich), Contessa (Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Teatro Real Madrid , Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Metropolitan Opera New York, Frankfurt Opera), Fiordiligi (Bavarian State Opera Munich), Armida (Salzburg Festival), Alice ( Deutsche Oper Berlin ), Antonia (Paris National Opera), Rezia (Bavarian State Opera Munich, Theater an der Wien), Martinů's Juliette (Zurich Opera House), Cordelia ( Paris National Opera), Rosalinde (Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin ), Hanna Glawari (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Sylva Varescu (Zurich Opera House) and 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 Academy for Ancient Music, and the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, as well as with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Ádám 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 Philharmonic Halls of Cologne and Essen.
Annette Dasch studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, among other institutions. Her debut CD, Armida (SONY), won the ECHO Award for Best Opera Recording. Currently available recordings include Mozart Arias (SONY) as well as the Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann (SONY), Wagner's Lohengrin under Marek Janowski (PentaTone), and Lohengrin from the 2011 Bayreuth Festival (Opus Arte). Other recordings include German Baroque songs , Schumann's Genoveva , Haydn's The Creation, Re Pastore (DG), Don Giovanni from the Salzburg Festival, Idomeneo from Munich, and Le nozze di Figaro from Paris.
2026/27
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