Diana Haller

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Diana Haller (born November 11, 1986 in Rijeka , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Haller comes from a Croatian-Italian family, her great-grandmother Emilia Haller was a pianist, her grandfather Antun Haller a painter. She studied at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory in Trieste , at the Royal Academy of Music in London and with Dunja Vejzović in Stuttgart. After a year in the opera studio of the Stuttgart Opera , she was accepted as the youngest member of the house's ensemble in the 2010/11 season. Haller sang and sings in Stuttgart a. a. Cherubino ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Ruggiero ( Alcina ), Orlofsky ( Die Fledermaus ), Angelina ( La Cenerentola ) and Ariodante ( Ariodante ).

Guest engagements led her to a. in the title role in Hasse's Siroe, re di Persia at the London Handel Festival, as Alberto in Giuseppe Balducci's Il noce di Benevento at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad and as Ruggiero at the Cologne Opera and the Dresden Semperoper . In the 2013/14 season she sang Rosine ( Il barbiere di Siviglia ) at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb and was engaged as the cover for Angelina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York . As a member of the Young Singers Project , she performed at the Salzburg Festival 2014 as Ines in Verdi's Trovatore and as Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola in a children's version. In 2015 she returned to Salzburg as Ines. In May 2016 Haller sang the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Croatian National Theater in her hometown of Rijeka .

As a concert singer she was u. a. to be heard in Mozart's C minor Mass under Philippe Herreweghe on tour, in Mahler's Lied von der Erde at the Heidelberg Spring and in Rossini's Stabat mater in the Cologne Philharmonic . Her discography includes works by Handel and Bach with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Concerto Köln and a solo album with Schumann and Wolf songs, which was released in autumn 2014.

Awards

  • 2012 First prize at the International Competition for Lied Art of the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart
  • 2013 up-and-coming singer of the year in Opernwelt magazine's critics survey
  • 2013 Young Musician of the Year, awarded by the Zagreb Philharmonic
  • 2019 Milka Trnina Award, awarded by the Hrvatsko Društvo Glazbenih Umjetnika

literature

Dirk Herrmann: "I train in the fitness studio for the opera". Interview with mezzo-soprano Diana Haller , in: Stuttgarter Zeitung on May 19, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opera agency. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Diana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Rijeka