Annette Dasch

Worldwide representation

One of today’s leading sopranos, Annette Dasch regularly appears at the most important international opera houses and festivals. 

At the beginning of the 2023/24 season, she will appear as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Vienna Volksoper and will also embody Dubarry again here in the revival of the production, which caused a sensation the season before. The Zurich Opera House is expecting the soprano for the revival of Csardasfürstin. As Chawa in Rudi Stephan's Die ersten Menschen, for which she was acclaimed at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, she has now been engaged to take over the Bieito production at the Teatro Arriaga Bilbao. Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra will present Annette Dasch in the soprano part of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Among Ms. Dasch’s most important roles are Marschallin (New National Theater Tokyo), Jenufa (Nederlandse Oper Amsterdam), Katia Kabanova (Komische Oper Berlin), Elisabeth (Oper Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen), Elsa (Bayreuther Festspiele, Mailänder Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Oper Frankfurt), Eva (Budapest Festival, Metropolitan Opera New York), Foreign Princess (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Martinu´s Juliette (Oper Zürich), Chawa (Die ersten Menschen/Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Cordelia (Opéra de Paris), Jenny (Oper Zürich, Festival d‘ Aix-en-Provence), Donna Elvira (Mailänder Scala, Berliner Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper München), Contessa (Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Teatro Real Madrid, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Metropolitan Opera New York, Oper Frankfurt), Fiordiligi (Bayerische Staatsoper München), Armida (Salzburger Festspiele), Alice (Falstaff/Deutsche Oper Berlin), Antonia (Opéra National de Paris), Rezia (Bayerische Staatsoper München), Rosalinde (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper), Lustige Witwe (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Csardasfürstin (Oper Zürich), Dubarry (Volksoper Wien) a.o.

On the concert stage she has worked with such orchestras as the Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, RSB Berlin, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, and the Akademie of Alte Musik, and she regularly collaborates with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paavo Järvi, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Christian Thielemann, Esa-Pekka Salonen. Ms. Dasch also regularly gives recitals at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and at the Wigmore Hall London.

Annette Dasch studied among others at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. She is an exclusive artist with SONY BMG. For her debut-CD Armida she was awarded the ECHO prize for the best opera-recording in 2008. Her second album with Mozart Arias was also released by SONY. Ms. Dasch’s wider discography includes Lohengrin from Bayreuth Festival and Philharmonie Berlin, Beethoven 9 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, CDs of Deutsche Barocklieder (Harmonia mundi France) and Schumann’s Genoveva (Acousence), as well as DVDs of Haydn’s Creation, Re Pastore from Salzburger Festspiele (DG) and Nozze di Figaro (Bel Air Classiques) from Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Don Giovanni (Euroarts) from Salzburg Festival and Idomeneo (Medici Arts/Naxos) from Cuvilliés Theater München.

2023/24

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