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Austrian singer and opera singer
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Female
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Birth:
27 June 1983(Neu-Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Swabia, Bavaria)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Anna Prohaska (Neu-Ulm, born 27 June 1983 ) is an Austrian coloratura soprano.
In 2003 she was selected for the Académie européenne de musique in Aix-en-Provence. In 2005 she won the Hanns-Eisler-Preis für Komposition und Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik. In 2006 she was selected for the Internationale Händelakademie Karlsruhe, and in 2008 won the Daphne-Preis. In 2010 she won the Schneider-Schott Music Prize and in 2012 received an Echo Deutscher Musikpreis Klassik for her album Sirène.
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 Beethoven, Eisler, Wolf, Rachmaninoff, Ives, Quilter, Rihm, Liszt, Poulenc, Schumann, Mahler, Weill. Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider DGG 2014