Anna Prohaska

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Anna Prohaska

Anna Prohaska (* 1983 in Neu-Ulm ) is an Austrian - English singer who specializes in coloratura soprano .

biography

Anna Prohaska was born in 1983 in Neu-Ulm as the granddaughter of the conductor Felix Prohaska and the daughter of an Austrian opera director and an Irish-English singer. She grew up in Vienna from the age of six and then moved to Berlin with her parents. Here, General Music Director Eberhard Kloke was her private music teacher, and she sang first in the children's choir and later in the “Singflut”, another choir of the Catholic parish of St. Ludwig in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Later Norma Sharp and now Brenda Mitchell and Wolfram Rieger at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin are their teachers on their way as singers.

Prohaska has been a member of the ensemble of the State Opera Unter den Linden since 2006 . In 2009 she performed for the first time at the Salzburg Easter Festival and Salzburg Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic in opera and song programs. At the opening of the Salzburg Festival on July 27, 2012, she sang the motet Exsultate, jubilate by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, after having learned the previous evening that she should stand in for the sick Chinese soprano Sen Guo .

From the 2012/13 to 2014/15 season Anna Prohaska was an artist in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus.

She worked with the directors Harry Kupfer and Christoph Schlingensief and the conductors Mariss Jansons , Claudio Abbado , Daniel Barenboim , Pierre Boulez , Simon Rattle and René Jacobs .

Her brother Daniel Prohaska, who is ten years her senior, is a tenor.

Anna Prohaska lives in Berlin .

Awards

Discography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Anna Prohaska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Kanold: Anna Prohaska remembers her childhood. ( Memento from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Südwest Presse , August 24, 2011.
  2. ↑ Winners 2017 on the ICMA website, accessed on June 5, 2017.
  3. ^ Art Prize Berlin 2016. Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948. From the website of the Akademie der Künste, accessed on June 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Awarding of the 2nd Austrian Music Theater Prize on June 17, 2014 . Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ Homepage Echo Klassik ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Tracklist
personal data
SURNAME Prohaska, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-English singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH New Ulm