Annette Dasch is one of today’s leading sopranos. In summer 2011 she sang again Elsa in Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival. In November 2011 she will appear in this very role in a concert performance under the baton of Marek Janowski at Konzerthaus Berlin. She has opened the season 2011/12 with concerts and recitals in Hohenems, Stuttgart and Berlin. With Akademie of Alte Musik Berlin she will sing concerts in Lörrach, Berlin, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, with Mozarteum Orchester with Ivor Bolton conducting in Salzburg and Frankfurt and at Staatstheater Wiesbaden she will appear in Handel’s Messiah, followed by the title role in a new production of Leo Fall’s Madame Pompadour in Vienna. Invited by Volksoper Wien she sings guest performances of The Merry Widow in Japan. Summer 2012 brings her back to the Bayreuth Festival in the role of Elsa in Lohengrin.

After successful debuts at Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London and with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Annette Dasch made her debut in the season 2010/11 at Teatro Real Madrid and Grand Thèâtre de Genève. Under the baton of Daniel Barenboim she could be heard in the world premiere of Jens Joneleit’s Metanoia at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Christian Thielemann at Théâtre des Champs Élysées Paris and Berliner Philharmonie.

Annette Dasch appeared at Salzburger Festspiele and Osterfestspiele, Teatro alla Scala Milano, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo and Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Bruxelles and sang concerts with the Wiener Symphoniker, DSO Berlin, RSB Berlin, MDR Leipzig and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. She collaborated with conductors such as 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 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. She is an exclusive artist with SONY BMG. 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. Besides, her discography includes 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. Since the beginning of 2008 she is initiator and host of her highly successful show Annette’s Dasch-Salon in Berlin.