Annette Dasch is one of today’s leading sopranos. In summer 2012 she appeared again as Elsa in Lohengrinat Bayreuth Festival. In this very role she makes her debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu during guest performances of the Bayreuth Festival in Barcelona. Before she performs at Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and at the Lucerne Festival. Under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle she sings Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with Wiener Philharmoniker at Wiener Musikverein. Further recitals and concerts bring her this season to Berlin, Luxemburg, Innsbruck, Heidelberg, Straßburg and London. At the Berlin State Opera she appears in the new production of Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera. At the Bavarian State Opera Munich she sings Donna Elvira in Don Giovanniand finally Elsa in Lohengrin during the Munich Opera Festival. Before, in January 2013, she sings this very role in concert version with Marek Janowski conducting the Orchestre de Radio France in Paris. At the Budapest Festival she makes her role debut as Eva in Meistersinger von Nürnberg in June 2013. She will appear again as Elsaat Bayreuth Festival 2013 and sing a recital commemorating the Wagner jubilee 2013 in the town hall of Bayreuth. Future projects include role debuts and new productions at Oper Frankfurt, Theater an der Wien, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Metropolitan Opera New York and Oper Zürich.

Annette Daschappeared at Salzburger Festspiele and Osterfestspiele, Teatro alla Scala Milano, Metropolitan Opera New York, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo and Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Bruxelles and sang concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, DSO Berlin, RSB Berlin, MDR Leipzig and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. She collaborated with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Ivor Bolton, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Paavo Järvi, René Jacobs, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Helmuth Rilling, Christian Thielemann and Hugh Wolff and sang recitals at Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Annette Dasch studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. For her debut-CD Armida she was awarded with the ECHO prize for the best opera-recording 2008. Her second album with Mozart Arias has also been released by SONY. Recent recordings include the Beethoven Symphonies with Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann conducting (SONY), Wagner’s Lohengrin with Radio Symphony OrchestraBerlin under the baton of Marek Janowski (PentaTone) and as DVD and BLU-RAY Lohengrin from the Bayreuth Festival 2011. Besides, her discography includes CDs of Deutsche Barocklieder (Harmonia mundi France), Schumann’s Genoveva (Acousence) as well as DVDs of Haydn’s Creation, Re Pastore from Salzburger Festspiele (DG) and Don Giovanni (Euroarts), Idomeneo from the Munich Cuvilliés Theatre (Euroarts) and Nozze di Figaro (Bel Air Classiques) from Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris. Since the beginning of 2008 she is initiator and host of her highly successful show Annette’s Dasch-Salon in Berlin.