Published on Oct 16, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Venue: Concret Hall of NCPA

Prices: 180, 240, 320, 420, 500, 580, 680

Features: Diana Damrau is a German soprano opera singer. She is a Kammersangerin of the Bavarian State Opera. On November 29, Diana Damrau vocal recital will be hold at concert hall of NCPA in Beijing.

PROGRAMME

Gioachino Rossini

The Barber of Seville
-- Una voce poco fa (Rosina: Diana Damrau)
-- La calunnia (Basilio: Nicolas Teste)

Charles Gounod

Romeo et Juliette
-- Je veux vivre: (Juliette: Diana Damrau)

Giuseppe Verdi/Franz Liszt

Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto, S. 434
-- Soloist: Maciej Pikulski

Giuseppe Verdi

Don Carlos
-- Elle ne m aime pas (Philippe I: Nicolas Teste)

Vincenzo Bellini

I Capuleti e i Montecchi
-- O quante volte (Giulietta: Diana Damrau)

Vincenzo Bellini

I puritani
-- O amato zio, o mio secondo padre (Elvira/Giorgio: Diana Damrau/Nicolas Teste)

--Intermission--

Giuseppe Verdi

I masnadieri
-- Mio Carlo... Ei sogna Duo (Amalia/Massimiliano: Diana Damrau/Nicolas Teste)

Amilcare Ponchielli

La Gioconda
-- Sì, morir ella de (Alvise Badoero: Nicolas Teste)

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Dinorah
-- Ombre legere (Dinorah: Diana Damrau)

Franz Liszt

Miserere: Paraphrase de concert de Trovatore
-- Soloist: Maciej Pikulski

Giuseppe Verdi

Il trovatore
-- Di due figli vivea padre beato (Ferrando: Nicolas Teste)

Giuseppe Verdi

La traviata
-- E strano... ah, forse lui....sempre libera (Violetta: Diana Damrau)

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Damrau was born in 1971 in Gunzburg, Bavaria, Germany, and began her operatic studies with Carmen Hanganu (de) at the Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg. During her studies, she developed an edema on a vocal fold. After consulting with several doctors, she decided to undergo an alternative therapy without surgery. The treatment lasted about one and a half years. After graduating from music conservatory she worked in Salzburg with Hanna Ludwig.

Her first operatic engagements were in Wurzburg and subsequently the National Theatre Mannheim and Oper Frankfurt. Since then, she has sung throughout the world at venues such as the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House London, the Bavarian State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. She was invited to sing the title role in Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta at the re-opening of La Scala, Milan in 2004, under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

The Queen of the Night from Mozart's The Magic Flute has been Damrau's most frequently performed role to date, as she has been engaged to perform it in over 15 productions at houses including Covent Garden, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, Oper Frankfurt and the Bavarian State Opera. Damrau made Metropolitan Opera history in the 2007/08 season by appearing as both Pamina and Queen of the Night in different performances of the same run. Another notable engagement was her portrayal of all four heroines in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann in a new production at the Bavarian State Opera in October 2011. Other coloratura roles in her repertoire include Zerbinetta, Lucia, Elvira, Rosina, Gilda, Adina, Marie, Linda and Aminta. She also performs roles in the lyric repertoire including Manon, Donna Anna, Gretel and Pamina.

Damrau has furthered her exploration of the bel canto repertoire in recent years with highlights including new productions of Rossini's comic opera Le comte Ory at the Metropolitan Opera and the title role in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix at the Liceu, Barcelona. She has since returned to the Metropolitan Opera as both Adina and Rosina and brought her portrayal of Donizetti's Lucia to Berlin and Vienna. Following the birth of her second child in autumn 2012, Damrau returned to the stage with a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera in February 2013; this was followed by her role debut in the title role of Verdi's La traviata in the same house. In October 2013, she created the title role in the world premiere of A Harlot's Progress, an opera written for her by young British composer Iain Bell based on the etchings of William Hogarth, at Vienna's Theater an der Wien. In March 2014 she sang in La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera.

As well as performing in operas, Damrau is a regular on the concert stage. She has performed Lieder repertoire at Vienna's Musikverein, at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, La Scala, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Austria, the Kissinger Sommer and both the Munich and Salzburg Festivals. Her concert repertoire includes Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, Requiem and Exsultate, jubilate as well as Handel's Messiah. She has performed with such esteemed conductors as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Leonard Slatkin, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Jesús López-Cobos.

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