Anna Prohaska
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{{short description|Austrian soprano}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anna Prohaska
| image = Anna prohaska 1954 (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Prohaska in a recital at Centre cultural l'Atlàntida (Vic, Spain). May 2016
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|06|27}}
| birth_place = Neu-Ulm, West Germany
| nationality = Austrian/British
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| organisation = Berlin State Opera
| occupation = Soprano singer
| years_active = 2002–present
| website = {{URL|http://www.annaprohaska.com/}}
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Anna Prohaska (born June 27, 1983) is an Austrian-British lyric soprano. She lives in Berlin.
Career
Anna Prohaska studied in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music.{{cite news |last=Kuhn |first=Annette |date=22 December 2014 |title=Sängerin Anna Prohaska - Singen, bis die Nachbarn klingeln |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin-aktuell/weihnachten-in-berlin/article135639211/Saengerin-Anna-Prohaska-Singen-bis-die-Nachbarn-klingeln.html |work=Berliner Morgenpost |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=26 August 2017}}{{cite news |last=Blech |first=Volker |date=27 October 2013 |title=Mit Sopranistin Anna Prohaska im goldenen Käfig |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/berlin-kultur/article121255157/Mit-Sopranistin-Anna-Prohaska-im-goldenen-Kaefig.html |work=Berliner Morgenpost |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=26 August 2017}} Prohaska made her debut in 2002 at the Komische Oper in Harry Kupfer’s production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw.{{cite news |last=Hamdorf |first=Laura |date=16 July 2011 |title=Oper frei Schnauze |url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/operntalent-anna-prohaska-oper-frei-schnauze-a-774714.html |work=Der Spiegel |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=26 August 2017}}{{cite news |date=12 March 2002 |title=Harry Kupfer inszenierte Brittens "The Turn of the Screw" |url=https://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/harry-kupfer-inszenierte-brittens-the-turn-of-the-screw |work=neue musikzeitung |language=de |access-date=25 August 2017}} In 2003 she was selected for the Académie européenne de musique in Aix-en-Provence, and in 2006 for the Internationale Händelakademie Karlsruhe. In 2006 she was engaged as a member of the permanent ensemble at the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.{{cite news |last=Brug |first=Manuel |date=22 May 2011 |title=Die zwei Seiten der Anna Prohaska |url=https://www.welt.de/print/wams/kultur/article13386662/Die-zwei-Seiten-der-Anna-Prohaska.html |work=Die Welt |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=27 August 2017}} Since 2007, she has worked closely with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Beside her wide standard repertoire, she is a modern and early music specialist.{{cite news |last=Mahlke |first=Sybill |date=14 February 2016 |title=Die Nahrung der Liebe |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/anna-prohaska-und-die-akademie-fuer-alte-musik-die-nahrung-der-liebe/12961694.html |work=Der Tagesspiegel |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=27 August 2017}} Prohaska performed the world premiere of Rihm's Mnemosyne in 2009 with the Scharoun Ensemble,{{cite news |last=Wilkening |first=Martin |date=25 May 2009 |title=Claudio Abbado dirigierte wieder in Berlin und wurde zuvor durch ein Konzert geehrt: Eine Feier des Augenblicks |url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/claudio-abbado-dirigierte-wieder-in-berlin-und-wurde-zuvor-durch-ein-konzert-geehrt-eine-feier-des-augenblicks-15649210 |work=Berliner Zeitung |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=27 August 2017}} and Requiem-Strophen in 2017 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.{{cite news |last=Braunmüller |first=Robert |date=28 March 2017 |title=Anna Prohaska über die "Requiem-Strophen" von Wolfgang Rihm |url=http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.musica-viva-anna-prohaska-ueber-die-requiem-strophen-von-wolfgang-rihm.1ebd1bd7-41c3-48a1-b4f4-fd9c824bd7bc.html |work=Abendzeitung |location=Munich |language=de |access-date=27 August 2017}} She appeared as Inanna in the world premiere of Jörg Widmann's Babylon in October 2012, with the Bavarian State Opera conducted by Kent Nagano.{{cite news |last=Loomis |first=George |date=6 November 2012 |title=Carnal Knowledge in a Modern Metropolis: Babylon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/arts/07iht-loomis07.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York |access-date=26 August 2017}}
Awards
- 2005 {{ill|Hanns-Eisler-Preis für Komposition und Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik|de}}
- 2008 {{ill|Daphne-Preis|de}}{{cite news |last=Primus |first=Juliane |date=9 September 2009 |title=Lacht schmutzig, spielt intensiv |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/stadtleben/stadtmenschen-lacht-schmutzig-spielt-intensiv/1596424.html |work=Der Tagesspiegel |location=Berlin |language=de |access-date=26 August 2017}}
- 2010 Schneider-Schott Music Prize{{cite web |url=https://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/anna-prohaska-erhaelt-den-schneider-schott-musikpreis-mainz-2010 |title=Anna Prohaska erhält den Schneider-Schott-Musikpreis Mainz 2010 |date=30 March 2010 |website=nmz online |publisher=neue musikzeitung |language=de |access-date=25 August 2017}}
- 2012 Echo Deutscher Musikpreis Klassik (Newcomer award) for her album Sirène{{cite web |title=ECHO Klassik Prizewinners 2012 |url=http://www.echoklassik.de/uploads/media/ECHO_Klassik_2012_Preistraeger_FINAL_120711.pdf |publisher=ECHO Klassik |access-date=27 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804052945/http://www.echoklassik.de/uploads/media/ECHO_Klassik_2012_Preistraeger_FINAL_120711.pdf |archive-date=4 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}
- 2016 Kunstpreis Berlin (performing arts)
- 2017 International Classical Music Awards (Baroque vocal) for her album Serpent & Fire
Discography
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Bernarda Fink, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck. Harmonia Mundi France, 2009.
- Sirène. Songs by Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Henry Lawes, John Dowland, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Karol Szymanowski, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Hugo Wolf, Arthur Honegger, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonín Dvořák. With {{ill|Eric Schneider (pianist)|lt=Eric Schneider|de|Eric Schneider (Pianist)}}, piano. DGG 2011.
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Initiale. Lieder und frühe Kammermusik. With Cordelia Höfer, Alessandro Cappone, Rachel Schmidt und Trio Berlin. Wergo, 2011.
- Georg Friedrich Händel: Saul. Dresdner Kammerchor, {{Interlanguage link multi|Dresdner Barockorchester|de}}, Hans-Christoph Rademann. Carus, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2011.
- Enchanted Forest. Arias by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell, Francesco Cavalli und Claudio Monteverdi. Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen. DGG 2013.
- Behind the Lines. Songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Hanns Eisler, Hugo Wolf, Alexey Nikolayevitch Pleshcheyev, Thomas Traill, Charles Edward Ives, Roger Quilter, Michael Cavendish, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Rihm, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill. With Eric Schneider, piano. DGG 2014{{cite news |last=Pirich |first=Carolin |date=11 September 2014 |title=Zwischen den Fronten |url=http://www.zeit.de/2014/36/anna-prohaska-klassik-behind-the-lines |work=Die Zeit |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=27 August 2017}}
- Serpent & Fire. Arias by Henry Purcell, Christoph Graupner, Antonio Sartorio, Matthew Locke, Daniele da Castrovillari, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Adolph Hasse, Francesco Cavalli. Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini. Alpha 2015
References
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External links
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- {{official|http://www.annaprohaska.com/}}
- [https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/en/kuenstler/anna-prohaska.1030/ Anna Prohaska] Staatsoper Unter den Linden {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.staatsoper.de/biographien/detail-seite/prohaska-anna.html Anna Prohaska] Bayerische Staatsoper {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/artists/anna-prohaska/biography Anna Prohaska]Deutsche Grammophon
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Category:Austrian operatic sopranos
Category:21st-century Austrian women opera singers
Category:Deutsche Grammophon artists