'A Dies Irae is an apt place for Prohaska to begin her musically wide-ranging exploration of 'life in death' and the gloom is leavened by lightness elsewhere.'
BBC Music Magazine
Anna Prohaska
Anna Prohaska
Soprano
Anna Prohaska is an Austrian coloratura soprano.
Genre
Classical
Biography
In 2003 she was selected for the Académie européenne de musique in Aix-en-Provence and went on to win the Hanns-Eisler-Preis für Komposition und Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik two years later. She was selected for the Internationale Händelakademie Karlsruhe and won the Daphne-Preis. Anna has also won the Schneider-Schott Music Prize and in 2012 received an Echo Deutscher Musikpreis Klassik for her album 'Sirène'.
Reviews
'The repertoire is as eclectic as the tone ... When it works it's gripping stuff ....'
Gramophone
'Her understanding of the text is just as convincing as her handling of dynamics and tone: sometimes relaxed and detached, sometimes dramatic, sometimes cheerful, sometimes effervescent.'
Das Opernglas
Editor's Choice: '... there's plenty of edgy vitality on this eclectic recital which spans eight centuries and only slightly fewer countries.'
Presto Music
