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Diana Damrau
12+ albums
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Diana Damrau (born May 31, 1971 in Günzburg an der Donau, Germany) is a coloratura soprano of the operatic stage. She began her studies with Carmen Hanganu at the Musikhochschule Würzburg then after graduating from the aforementioned conservatoire, worked in Salzburg with Hanna Ludwig. Her first operatic engagements were in Würzburg and subsequently the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Oper Frankfurt. Since then, she has sung throughout Europe at venues including the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera New York, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, Munich and the Salzburg Festival. She was invited to sing the title role in Antonio Salieri's 'L'Europa riconosciuta' at the re-opening of La Scala, Milan in 2003, under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Mozart's Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) has been Damrau's most frequently performed role to-date, having been engaged to perform it in over 15 productions at houses including Covent Garden, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Oper Frankfurt and the Bavarian State Opera, Munich. Other coloratura roles in her repertoire include Konstanze, Blondchen, Zerbinetta, Rosina, Gilda, Norina, Europa, Olympia and Oscar. She also performs roles in the lighter lyric repertoire including Sophie, Adina, Susanna, Zaide, Gretel, Ännchenn, Marzelline, Leïla and Zdenka. As well as opera, Damrau is a regular on the concert podium having performed Lieder repertoire at Vienna's Musikverein, the Kissinger Summe
