Anna Prohaska
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1983 (age 34–35) Neu-Ulm, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | lyric soprano |
Anna Prohaska (born 1983) is an Austrian lyric soprano. She lives in Berlin.[1]
Career
Born in Neu-Ulm, Germany, Anna Prohaska studied in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music.[2][3] Prohaska made her debut in 2002 at the Komische Oper in Harry Kupfer’s production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw.[4][5] In 2003 she was selected for the Académie européenne de musique in Aix-en-Provence, and in 2006 for the Internationale Händelakademie Karlsruhe. In 2006 she was engaged as a member of the permanent ensemble at the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.[1] Since 2007, she has worked closely with the Berliner Philharmoniker.[6] Beside her wide standard repertoire, she is a modern and early music specialist.[7] Prohaska performed the world premiere of Rihm's Mnemosyne in 2009 with the Scharoun Ensemble,[8][9] and Requiem-Strophen in 2017 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.[9] She appeared as Inanna in the world premiere of Jörg Widmann's Babylon in October 2012, with the Bavarian State Opera conducted by Kent Nagano.[10]
Awards
- 2005 Hanns-Eisler-Preis für Komposition und Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik
- 2008 Daphne-Preis[6]
- 2010 Schneider-Schott Music Prize[11]
- 2012 Echo Deutscher Musikpreis Klassik (Newcomer award) for her album Sirène[12]
- 2016 Kunstpreis Berlin (performing arts)
- 2017 International Classical Music Awards (Baroque vocal) for her album Serpent & Fire
Discography
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Bernarda Fink, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck. Harmonia Mundi France, 2009.
- Sirène. Songs by Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Henry Lawes, John Dowland, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Karol Szymanowski, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Hugo Wolf, Arthur Honegger, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonín Dvořák. With Eric Schneider, piano. DGG 2011.
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Initiale. Lieder und frühe Kammermusik. With Cordelia Höfer, Alessandro Cappone, Rachel Schmidt und Trio Berlin. Wergo, 2011.
- Georg Friedrich Händel: Saul. Dresdner Kammerchor, Dresdner Barockorchester, Hans-Christoph Rademann. Carus, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2011.
- Enchanted Forest. Arias by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell, Francesco Cavalli und Claudio Monteverdi. Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen. DGG 2013.
- Behind the Lines. Songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Hanns Eisler, Hugo Wolf, Alexey Nikolayevitch Pleshcheyev, Thomas Traill, Charles Edward Ives, Roger Quilter, Michael Cavendish, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Rihm, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill. With Eric Schneider, piano. DGG 2014[13]
- Serpent & Fire. Arias by Henry Purcell, Christoph Graupner, Antonio Sartorio, Matthew Locke, Daniele da Castrovillari, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Francesco Cavalli. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini. Alpha 2015
References
- 1 2 Brug, Manuel (22 May 2011). "Die zwei Seiten der Anna Prohaska". Die Welt (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Kuhn, Annette (22 December 2014). "Sängerin Anna Prohaska - Singen, bis die Nachbarn klingeln". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ Blech, Volker (27 October 2013). "Mit Sopranistin Anna Prohaska im goldenen Käfig". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ Hamdorf, Laura (16 July 2011). "Oper frei Schnauze". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ "Harry Kupfer inszenierte Brittens "The Turn of the Screw"". neue musikzeitung (in German). 12 March 2002. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- 1 2 Primus, Juliane (9 September 2009). "Lacht schmutzig, spielt intensiv". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ Mahlke, Sybill (14 February 2016). "Die Nahrung der Liebe". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Wilkening, Martin (25 May 2009). "Claudio Abbado dirigierte wieder in Berlin und wurde zuvor durch ein Konzert geehrt: Eine Feier des Augenblicks". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- 1 2 Braunmüller, Robert (28 March 2017). "Anna Prohaska über die "Requiem-Strophen" von Wolfgang Rihm". Abendzeitung (in German). Munich. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Loomis, George (6 November 2012). "Carnal Knowledge in a Modern Metropolis: Babylon". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ "Anna Prohaska erhält den Schneider-Schott-Musikpreis Mainz 2010". nmz online (in German). neue musikzeitung. 30 March 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- ↑ "ECHO Klassik Prizewinners 2012" (PDF). ECHO Klassik. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Pirich, Carolin (11 September 2014). "Zwischen den Fronten". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
External links
- Anna Prohaska Staatsoper Unter den Linden (in German)
- Anna Prohaska Bayerische Staatsoper (in German)
- Anna Prohaska Deutsche Grammophon
