Annette Dasch is the new Donna Anna at the Salzburger Festspiele 2008, her second opening production there following the triumphant Armida in 2007. She begins the 2008/09 season with a series of recitals, which will lead her to the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, to Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart and to the Beethovenfest Bonn. In Bonn she will also appear together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, singing a program of German baroque-arias. After her appearance at the Aids-Gala at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Annette Dasch will start her concert-tour with Mozart-arias through Bremen, Munich, Frankfurt and Bielefeld. After that she will make her stage-debut as Rosalinde at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden. Before touring to Japan as Fiordiligi with the Salzburg Festival production, she will sing concerts under the baton of Bertrand de Billy in Vienna, under Marek Janowski in Geneva and together with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg. In March 2009 Annette Dasch will return to the Konzerthaus Dortmund, and will make her recital-debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus and at Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Concerts together with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Fabio Luisi will follow in April 2009, concerts together with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Seiji Ozawa are scheduled for May 2009. In spring 2009 Annette Dasch can also be heard on an opera-gala-tour together with tenor Joseph Kaiser. Concerts in Berlin, Linz, Eisenstadt and Leipzig, and recitals at the Strauss-Tage Garmisch and at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg will open the artist’s summer-engagements which will also include appearances at the Münchner Opernfestspiele, at Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival and at the Salzburger Festspiele.

 

Among her most important past engagements are Donna Elvira under Daniel Barenboim in Japan and at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (2007) as well as her role-debut as Elettra in Idomeneo at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich on the occasion of the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre (June 2008). Together with the Wiener Philharmoniker she made her debut in Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri at the Wiener Musikverein in March 2008. Further highlights have been Freia in Rheingold at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele 2007 under Sir Simon Rattle, Aminta in Re Pastore at the Salzburger Festspiele 2006, Antonia opposite Rolando Villazon at the Opéra National de Paris, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Milano Scala (Mussbach/Dudamel), Mendelssohn’s Elias under Seiji Ozawa at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Gänsemagd in Humperdinck’s Königskinder at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich (Homoki/Luisi), Cinna in Lucio Silla at Wiener Festwochen (Guth/Harnoncourt), Pamina in Zauberflöte at Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Freyer/Weigle) as well as concert performances of Schumann’s Faust-Szenen (Nikolaus Harnoncourt/Styriarte Graz) and concerts at the Wiener Musikverein (Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln with the Wiener Symphoniker under Fabio Luisi).

 

Annette Dasch is an exclusive artist at Sony BMG. Her first solo CD was released under the title of Armida. She has also recorded: German baroque arias (CD/ Harmonia Mundi), Genoveva (CD/Acousense), Re Pastore (DVD/Deutsche Grammophon) and Nozze di Figaro (DVD/Bel Air Classiques).

 

Her international career started in the year 2000 when she won three important singing competitions: in Barcelona, Zwickau and Geneva. Important engagements followed at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, New National Theatre Tokyo and the Innsbrucker Festwochen. Concerts and recitals led her to Schubertiade, Folle Journée de Nantes, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, to the Berliner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Köln, Musikhalle Hamburg, to the Leipziger Gewandhaus, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, to the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, the Wiener Musikverein, Stefaniensaal Graz, and to Barcelona, Parma and Florence. She has worked with many renowned conductors such as Barenboim, de Billy, Bolton, Creed, Dudamel, Harnoncourt, Hengelbrock, Honeck, Jacobs, Janowski, Luisi, Nagano, Netopil, Ozawa, Piollet, Rattle and Weigle among others.

 

Since 1996, the German soprano has studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Prof. Josef Loibl, who coaches her still, and attends master classes with Jan Philipp Schulze, Wolfram Rieger and Helmut Deutsch.

 

2008 / 2009