Diana Damrau

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She studied at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and Frankfurt and was active in opera companies in Würzburg, Mannheim, and Frankfurt. She has been performing on top stage performances, including the Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera, where she appeared in consecutive 12 seasons since her debut in 2005/06. She also assists in concerts with French bass-baritone Nicholas Testé, whom she married in 2010.

Since signing to EMI/Virgin Classics (which was absorbed into Warner/Erato Records in 2013), Damrau has released scores of opera and lieder recital albums. She was born in Bavarian Kammersängerin and has been given the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art as well as the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Early life

Damrau was born in Günzburg, Bavaria, on May 31, 1971. After seeing Zeffirelli's 1983 film La traviata, which starred Plácido Domingo and Teresa Stratas, she was inspired to become an opera singer. Carmen Hanganu of the Hochschule for Music Würzburg began her operatic studies. She developed an edema on a vocal cord during her studies, which lead to a vocal cord disorder.

She decided against surgery after consulting with several doctors and finding out that there are no alternatives exist. The therapy lasted about one and a half years. Hanna Ludwig, a graduate of the music conservatory, worked in Salzburg.

Personal life

In May 2010, Damrau married French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé. They have two children.

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Career

Damrau made her operatic debut in 1995 as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. She appeared in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle, then as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, her debut in that role, and in the world premiere of Salieri's Gran kan de' Tartari (1998). She appeared with Mannheim National Theatre and Oper Frankfurt for two years. In 1999, she made her Bavarian State Opera debut with Zerbinetta in Ariadne on Naxos, and her debut with the Queen of the Night in 2000. She made her Salzburg debut in 2001, starring Natalie Dessay's Zerbinetta; she returned to Salzburg in the following six editions.

She began a freelance career in 2002 and had frequent interactions with the Bavarian State Opera, including Adele in Die Fledermaus, Marzelline in Fidelio, and Queen of the Night. In the role of Small Woman in Vienna, she appeared in the world premiere of Cehra's Der Riese vom Steinfeld. Her Salzburg appearances consisted solely of appearances in Mozart's The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night, 2002) Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blonde, 2003; Konstanze, 2004), The Marriage of Figaro (Susanna, 2007). In the 2006 edition, which commemorated Mozart's 200th anniversary, she appeared in The Queen of the Night and Fauno in Ascanio, Alba.

Damrau made her Royal Opera, London debut in January 2003 in David McVicar's new production The Magic Flute, Ariadne on Naxos (Zerbinetta), and the world premiere of Maazel's 1984 in two seasons. She appeared in Die Entführung, her first Konstanze, a role she then reprised in Munich and Salzburg. For the first time in Munich, she played Zdenka in Arabella. In December 2004, she was given the opportunity to appear in Salieri's Europa riconosciuta, directed by Riccardo Muti, for La Scala's reopening in Milan. She portrayed Gilda in the premiere of Doris Dörrie's tumultuous production of Rigoletto in Munich in 2005, and she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York City in the role of Zerbinetta.

Susanna de Leona in The Marriage of Figaro first appeared in February 2006 at La Scala and then in Vienna. She appeared in three seasons with several others, apart from Konstanze in a new production co-produced with the Burgtheater. Since her debut in the 2005/06 season, she appeared in multiple seasons at the Met, including Die egyptischen Helena (Aithra, 2006), Le comte Ory (Rosina, 2005), and L'elisir d'amore (Rosina, 2006), Die schwarzen hyptische, Rigoletto, Rigoletto, and L'elisir d'e a e e a e a, hete ai a mo e a, 2006) and a (Ro a, 2006), Die a, 2006), Le a, & a, d's, 2011), e a, a, a, d'ste à d'sinte d'sina, d'sina, e d'sina, 2004), Le e e d'sina, 2011) d'sina, e à, 2006), e e e a, te d'sina, Pamina and the Queen of the Night appeared in several performances of The Magic Flute, after which she resigned from playing the Queen in more than 15 productions.

She appeared at the Teatro Real (Zerbinetta), Semperoper in Dresden (Gilda), Theater an der Wien (Pamina), Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier). She continued to be affiliated with the Bavarian State Opera, with performances including a new production of Ariadne on Naxos in 2008. She returned to Royal Opera in London for Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Adina in L'elisir d'amore in the 2008/09 season. In the 2003 Christof Loy production she premiered, Rosina and her role debut in Manon (Vienna State Opera) and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (San Francisco Opera) and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Grand Théâtre de Genève).

Damrau has continued her investigation into the bel canto repertoire, with highlights including her debut in Elvira in Geneva in January 2011 and her title role in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix at the Liceu. She has travelled to Berlin and Vienna since playing Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti. In Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, she appeared in a new production of Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau at the 2010 Munich Opera Festival, she introduced all four heroines in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, which premiered in October 2011. In May 2012, she returned to Geneva for Philine in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon's Ambroise Thomas' Mignon. Damrau returned to the stage in a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera in February 2013 after her second child's birth in autumn 2012; she was then introduced to the role in Verdi's La traviata in the same house. She appeared in the world premiere of Iain Bell's A Harlot's Progress at the Theater an der Wien in October 2013. In March 2014, she appeared in La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera.

She debuted in the role of Countess d'Almaviva in the new La Scala production The Marriage of Figaro, which premiered on October 26, 2016.

In April 2018, she took up her title in Maria Stuarda at the Zürich Opera House. In 2019, she debuted as Ophélie in Hamlet in concert performances at the Liceu and later at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Damrau is a regular on the concert stage, as well as performing in operas. She appeared on "3 Orchester und Stars" in Munich, alongside Plácido Domingo to kick off the 2006 FIFA World Cup. She has lieder at Vienna's Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, La Scala, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, the Kissinger Sommer, and both the Munich and Salzburg Festivals, particularly with Xavier de Maistre as her accompanist. Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, Requiem and Exsultate, Jubilate, Jubilate, and Handel's Messiah are among her recital recitals. She has appeared with conductors as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Leonard Slatkin, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Jes' Lobos.

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Honours and awards

• 1999: Prizewinner at the 7th International Mozart Competition, Salzburg
• 1999: "Young Singer of the Year", voted in a critics' survey in the magazine Opernwelt
• 2004: Recipient of the "Star of the Year" by the Munich Abendzeitung
• 2005: Recipient of the "Rose of the Year" by the Munich Tz
• 2006: "Bavarian of the Year", named by the Bayerischer Rundfunk
• 2007: Kulturpreis Bayern of E.ON Bayern AG
• 2007: Bavarian Kammersängerin
• 2008: "Singer of the Year 2008" by the magazine Opernwelt, appearing on the cover of the magazine's 2008 yearbook
• 2008: German Record Critics' Award for her album Arie di Bravura
• 2010: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, received on 17 November 2011
• 2010: Würzburg Cultural Prize
• 2011: Echo Klassik Award for her album Poesie
• 2011: "Musical Ambassador of the Günzburg district" (Musikalische Botschafterin des Landkreises Günzburg)
• 2014: "Female Singer of the Year" in the International Opera Awards 2014
• 2014: Klassik ohne Grenzen prize for her album Forever of the Echo Klassik award
• 2015: Entry in the Golden Book of the City of Würzburg
• 2016: Bavarian Order of Merit, received on 12 July 2017
• 2018: "Female Singer of the Year" of the Opus Klassik award for her Meyerbeer album
• 2020: asteroid 33034 Dianadamrau, discovered by the ODAS team in 1997, was named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 January 2020 (M.P.C. 120069).