The award-winning Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin at the age of 18 as Flora (The Turn of the Screw) and has had a close association with the Berlin State Opera since she was 20. Since then, her exceptional career has taken her to the world’s most important opera houses and outstanding orchestras. She has appeared as a guest artist at La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opéra, Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Theater an der Wien and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Anna Prohaska is a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, and has appeared as Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Despina (Così fan tutte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), in Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore and in numerous concerts.
She has appeared as a concert soloist with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst and Christoph von Dohnányi.
Highlights of 2023/24 include Angelica (Orlando) under Ivor Bolton at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Silvia in Furrer’s Violetter Schnee in Berlin and the Angel in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise under Kent Nagano at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. She performes at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, at the Grafenegg Festival, with the ensemble Phantasm at London’s Wigmore Hall and with the Ensemble Modern in Francesco Filidei’s Cantico delle Creature, and presents her new Ophelia programme in Paris. In June 2024 she appears in the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck.
Anna Prohaska’s discography includes a series of solo CDS: Sirène (2011), Enchanted Forest (2013) and Behind the Lines (2014), all for Deutsche Grammophon; Serpent & Fire with Il Giardino Armonico, Paradise Lost with Julius Drake, Bach: Redemption with lautten compagney, Celebration of Life in Death with La Folia and Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments with Isabelle Faust. Most recently she released Maria Mater Meretrix with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern for Alpha Classics.
