Anna Prohaska

Coloratura soprano Anna Prohaska was born in 1983 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria. She is the daughter of an Austrian opera director and an Irish-English singer. She spent her early childhood in Vienna before moving with her family to Berlin, where she gained her first musical experience in choir work and received private lessons from conductor and composer Eberhard Kloke. She later studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Brenda Mitchell and Wolfram Rieger.

In the 2006/07 season, Anna Prohaska became a member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. In 2008, she made her debuts at the Salzburg Easter Festival and the Salzburg Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic. In the 2012/13 season, she was also featured in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Konzerthaus Dortmund. She has worked with renowned conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Claudio Abbado and Daniel Barenboim.

Her repertoire ranges from the late Renaissance to contemporary world premieres. In addition to performing with specialist ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, she appears with leading international orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. Residencies have taken her to venues such as the Philharmonie Luxembourg and Theater an der Wien.

Composer Jörg Widmann wrote the role of Ianna in his opera Babylon for her. Her chamber music partners include Isabelle Faust and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Anna Prohaska has received numerous awards for her artistic work, including the ECHO Klassik in 2012, the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2016 and the International Classical Music Award the following year.