Annette Dasch is one of today’s leading sopranos. Prestigious debuts mark the current season of the German artist: At the end of 2009 she gave her debuts at the Metropolitan Opera New York (Figaro-Comtessa) and with the New York Philharmonic Orchetsra (Messiah). Her recital-debut at the Vienna Musikverein is followed by her debuts at Royal Opera House Covent Garden London and at Bayreuther Festspiele. On top of her operatic engagements she sings concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Collin Davis, the Orchestre de Paris under Marek Janowski, the Wiener Philharmoniker under Christian Thielemann as well as at the “Mozartwoche” Salzburg under Sir Roger Norrington.

For the fourth time in series, in 2009 Annette Dasch appeared at the Salzburger Festspiele (Re Pastore, Armida, Don Giovanni) preceded by Idomeneo at Bayerische Staatsoper München. In the same year she sang concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle as well as under Seiji Ozawa, with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Fabio Luisi, with the RSO Frankfurt as well as with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi. On the occasion of the Haydn-anniversary she took part in a DVD-production of The Creation at Haydn-Festival under Adam Fischer and gave recitals at Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Annette Dasch appeared at Teatro alla Scala Milano, Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, 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 renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Ivor Bolton, Gustavo Dudamel, Thomas Hengelbrock, René Jacobs, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Helmuth Rilling and Hugh Wolff.

Annette Dasch studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and is still coached by Prof. Josef Loibl to this day. 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.

2010