'This was all about the joy of the journey. Eclecticism was one of its strengths.'
The Times
Anna Prohaska
Anna Prohaska
Soprano
Anna Prohaska is an Austrian coloratura soprano. She was named Female Singer of the Year at the 2024 Opus Klassik Awards.
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
Top 15 Albums of 2022 #1: '... a performance that feels like a theater of the voice.'
VAN Magazine
'The repertoire is as eclectic as the tone ... When it works it's gripping stuff ....'
Gramophone
'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