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 2007/08 season as Donna Elvira in Japan and Berlin with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. She makes her role debut as Elettra in a new production of Idomeneo (Dieter Dorn / Kent Nagano) at the Bayerische Staatsoper München in June 2008. Concert engagements lead the soprano to the Theater an der Wien, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Beethovenfest Bonn, Musikfest Stuttgart, Beethoven Festival Warsaw, to Tokyo, Madrid, and Prague. She debuts with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the title role of Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri at the Wiener Musikverein. Annette Dasch gives recitals at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Mozarteum Salzburg and the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Among her most important past engagements are 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.

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