'Paradise Lost is a daring recital from a superb soprano ... one of the finest and most perceptive song exponents of our troubled times.'
San Francisco Classical Voice
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
'Most of all I urge all readers to invest in this disc without delay. You won’t regret the outlay.'
MusicWeb International
'... the album is so beautiful, that it allows us to spend some time in a musical paradise!'
Klassiek Centraal
Editor's Choice: 'Prohaska is especially gripping in the songs more usually associated with male singers ...'
Presto Music