Anna Prohaska

2024 Opus Klassik Female Singer of the Year, the Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska made her debut aged 18 at
Berlin’s Komische Oper as Flora in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and soon after with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Berlin, entering the ensemble at age 23. She has since gone on to have an extraordinary international career with some
of the world’s greatest opera houses and orchestras.
Operatic highlights include Zabelle in the world premiere of George Benjamin’s Picture a day like this & Morgana Alcina
for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Constance Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Nannetta
Falstaff for the Royal Opera House, Pelléas et Mélisande for the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Anne Trulove The Rake’s
Progress, Merab Saul and Angelica Orlando for Theater an der Wien, Zerlina Don Giovanni for La Scala, title role Orphée
et Eurydice for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opéra national de Paris, Sophie Der
Rosenkavalier in Baden-Baden, Iphis Jephtha in Amsterdam, as well as Marzelline Fidelio, Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Blonde,
Ännchen Der Freischütz and Adele Die Fledermaus for the Bayerische Staatsoper. A regular guest at the Salzburg Festival,
Anna has appeared as Vitellia, Zerlina, Despina, Deola in Luigi Nono’s Al Gran Sole Carico d’Amore, Susanna and Cordelia
in Aribert Reimann’s King Lear.
Noted for her diverse repertoire with the Deutsche Staatsoper, her roles include Anne Trulove, Susanna, Sophie, Pamina,
Ilia, Oscar, Blonde, Poppea, Euridice, Aricie, Ännchen, Anna Reich as well as world premieres by Beat Furrer and Peter
Ruzicka. Conductors she has worked with include Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Philippe Jordan, Gustavo Dudamel
and René Jacobs.
In huge demand on the concert platform, Anna has performed regularly with the Berliner Philharmoniker since her debut
with them aged 24, performing under Rattle, Harding and Abbado. Other orchestras include the Vienna Philharmonic
under Boulez, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jansons, Harding, Blomstedt and Nézet-Séguin, the LSO
under Rattle, Los Angeles Philharmonic under Dudamel, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under François-Xavier
Roth, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under John Eliot Gardiner, the Cleveland Orchestra under Welser-Möst and the
Boston Symphony Orchestra under von Dohnányi. Recent seasons have included artistic residencies at the Konzerthaus
Berlin, Konzertahus Dortmund, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Philharmonie Luxembourg.