AnnaProhaska
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Anna
Winner: Opus Klassik Female Singer of the Year 2024
2024 Opus Klassik Female Singer of the Year, the Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska, made her debut aged 18 at Berlin’s Komische Oper as Flora in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and soon after with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, entering the ensemble at age 23. She has since gone on to have an extraordinary international career with some of the world’s greatest opera houses and orchestras.
Plans for the 24/25 season include Zabelle (George Benjamin's Picture a Day Like This) conducted by the composer for Opéra Comique; Mozart's Requiem in Romeo Castellucci's staged production for Gran Teatre del Liceu; Fiordiligi (Mozart's Così fan tutte) with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra; and a new opera, Lash, by Rebecca Saunders at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
On the concert platform, Anna performs Handel's Messiah with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi; Haydn's Creation with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; and Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.
She also appears as a 24/25 season Spotlight Artist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and tours her projects Ophelia with Eric Schneider and Paradise Lost with Julius Drake across Europe.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Anna Prohaska sings Debussy’s 'La Damoiselle élue' with the Berlin Philharmonic & François-Xavier Roth
François-Xavier Roth (conductor), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Adèle Charvet (mezzo soprano), Berlin Philharmonic; Filmed in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Digital Concert Hall
PlayingAnna Prohaska performs 'Maria durch ein Dornwald ging' with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (arr. for Soprano, Violin and Orchestra by Wolfgang Katschner); Anna Prohaska (soprano), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Camerata Bern Credit: Radio SRF 2 Kultur & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Playing
Projects
Anna Prohaska & Ensemble Resonanz
Star soprano Anna Prohaska and conductor Nicolas Ellis combine forces with Ensemble Resonanz to present a programme of 'Love and Betrayal', with music by Berg and Mozart. Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony No. 35 serves as the backbone of the programme, and the performance intertwines encrypted love messages from Berg's 'Lyric Suite' with the dizzying emotional states expressed in many of Mozart's most famous arias, including from Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte.
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Anna Prohaska & Ensemble Resonanz
Star soprano Anna Prohaska and conductor Nicolas Ellis combine forces with Ensemble Resonanz to present a programme of 'Love and Betrayal', with music by Berg and Mozart. Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony No. 35 serves as the backbone of the programme, and the performance intertwines encrypted love messages from Berg's 'Lyric Suite' with the dizzying emotional states expressed in many of Mozart's most famous arias, including from Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte.
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Sample Programmes
Paradise Lost
Performed in collaboration with Julius Drake TITLE: Morning in Paradise - Eve Awakens - Eve breathes life into God’s creation MAURICE RAVEL: Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Bonjour toi, colombe verte GABRIEL FAURÉ: La chanson d'Ève, Op. 95 CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Apparition DANIEL-LESUR: Ce qu'Adam dit à Ève TITLE: Pastoral Idyll - Playing with Fire - Eve and Evil - The Fall of Man IGOR STRAVINSKY: Pastorale HUGO WOLF: 'Die Spröde' from Goethe-Lieder, No. 26 HUGO WOLF: 'Die Bekehrte' from Goethe-Lieder, No. 27 JOHANNES BRAHMS: 'Salamander' from 5 Lieder, Op.107, No. 2 ARIBERT REIMANN: 'Gib Mir Den Apfel' from Kinderlieder, No. 6 BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Poison Tree HANS PFITZNER: Röschen biß den Apfel an, Op. 33 MAURICE RAVEL: 'Air du Feu' from L'enfant et les sortilèges Interval TITLE: Banishment - Exodus – Memories SERGEI RACHMANINOV: 'A-oo', Op.38, No. 6 CHARLES IVES: Evening HENRY PURCELL: Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest, Z195 FRANZ SCHUBERT: Auflösung, D.807 FRANZ SCHUBERT: Abendstern, D.806 ROBERT SCHUMANN: Jetzt sank des Abends goldner Schein ROBERT SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, Op. 24 (Heine): 6. Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann TITLE: Earthly Life HANS EISLER: Jeden Morgen, mein Brot zu verdienen HANS EISLER: Die Stadt hat mich belehrt GUSTAV MAHLER: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, No. 5 Das irdische Leben GEORGE CRUMB: Wind Elegy LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Silhouette (Galilee)
Serpent & Fire
Performed in collaboration with Il Giardino Armonico HENRY PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas Z. 626 'Overture' HENRY PURCELL: Ah! Belinda from Dido and Aeneas Z. 626 CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER: "Holdestes Lispeln der spielenden Fluthen" from "Dido, Königin von Karthago" in G Major ANTONIO SARTORIO: "Non voglio amar" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto MATTHEW LOCKE: Curtain Tune (from The Tempest) DANIELE DE CASTROVILLARI: "A Dio regni, a Dio scettri" from La Cleopatra ANTONIO SARTORIO: "Quando voglio" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto HENRY PURCELL: ‘Chaconne’ from The Fairy Queen CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER: "Der Himmel ist von Donner... Infido Cupido" from Dido, Königin von Karthago CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER: "Agitato da tempeste" from Dido, Königin von Karthago Interval SAMMARTINI: Recorder concerto in F major JOHANN ADOLF HASSE: "Già si desta la tempesta" from Didone abbandonata GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: "Se pietà di me non senti" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto DARIO CASTELLO: Sonata decimaquinta a quattro (Venezia, 1629) FRANCESCO CAVALLI: "Re de' Getuli Altero...Il mio marito" from Didone JOHANN ADOLF HASSE: "Morte col fiero aspetto" from Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra LUIGI ROSSI: Passacaille del Seig. R Louigi HENRY PURCELL: "Oft She visits this lone mountain" from Dido and Aeneas HENRY PURCELL: Dido's Lament (from Dido and Aeneas)
News
Press
CD Review - Picture a Day Like This (Zabelle)
Nimbus RecordsSep 2024But there’s no mistaking the quality of the performances... Anna Prohaska provides the perfect foil as Zabelle...
- Mark Pullinger, Gramophone Magazine
- 04 October 2024
...while Anna Prohaska is Zabelle, who tends the garden in which the Woman finds, if not the miracle she is looking for, then a way of coming to terms with her loss. Both singers seem to inhabit their characters effortlessly... beneath her serenity, Prohaska manages to convey that Zabelle’s path to acceptance has not been an easy one.
- Andrew Clements, The Guardian
- 12 September 2024