Annette Dasch
Worldwide representation
One of today’s leading sopranos, Annette Dasch regularly appears at the most important international opera houses and festivals.
The Vienna Volksoper has secured the artist for three productions in the 2024/25 season, presenting the soprano first in the title role of the world premiere of Alma, an opera about Alma Mahler-Werfel by Ella Milch-Sheriff, then as Wirtin in the new production of Weißes Rössl and finally in the title role of the new production of Csardasfürstin. Annette Dasch returns to the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam for the revival of Rudi Stephan's Erste Menschen. The Cologne Opera has engaged her for the title role in the new production of Frau von Format and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin she will be presents herself as Jenny in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, a role she has already sung with triumphant success at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at the Zurich Opera. Concert engagements will take her to the opening concert of Graz Opera (Wesendonck-Lieder), to Ludwigshafen with the Fauré Quartet and to Berliner Dom for a Liederabend.
Among Ms. Dasch’s most important roles are Marschallin (New National Theater Tokyo), Jenufa (Nederlandse Oper Amsterdam), Katia Kabanova (Komische Oper Berlin), Elisabeth (Oper Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen), Elsa (Bayreuther Festspiele, Mailänder Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Oper Frankfurt), Eva (Budapest Festival, Metropolitan Opera New York), Foreign Princess (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Martinu´s Juliette (Oper Zürich), Chawa (Die ersten Menschen/Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao), Cordelia (Opéra de Paris), Jenny (Oper Zürich, Festival d‘ Aix-en-Provence), Donna Elvira (Mailänder Scala, Berliner Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper München), Contessa (Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Teatro Real Madrid, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Metropolitan Opera New York, Oper Frankfurt), Fiordiligi (Bayerische Staatsoper München), Armida (Salzburger Festspiele), Alice (Falstaff/Deutsche Oper Berlin), Antonia (Opéra National de Paris), Rezia (Bayerische Staatsoper München), Rosalinde (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper), Lustige Witwe (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Csardasfürstin (Oper Zürich), Dubarry (Volksoper Wien) a.o.
On the concert stage she has worked with such orchestras as the Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, RSB Berlin, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Akademie of Alte Musik and Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, and she regularly collaborates with such conductors 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, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Christian Thielemann, Esa-Pekka Salonen. Ms. Dasch also regularly gives recitals at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and at the Wigmore Hall London.
Annette Dasch studied among others at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. She is an exclusive artist with SONY BMG. For her debut-CD Armida she was awarded the ECHO prize for the best opera-recording in 2008. Her second album with Mozart Arias was also released by SONY. Ms. Dasch’s wider discography includes Lohengrin from Bayreuth Festival and Philharmonie Berlin, Beethoven 9 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, CDs of Deutsche Barocklieder (Harmonia mundi France) and Schumann’s Genoveva (Acousence), as well as DVDs of Haydn’s Creation, Re Pastore from Salzburger Festspiele (DG) and Nozze di Figaro (Bel Air Classiques) from Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Don Giovanni (Euroarts) from Salzburg Festival and Idomeneo (Medici Arts/Naxos) from Cuvilliés Theater München.
2024/25
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