Anna Prohaska
Anna Prohaska has drawn comparison with Anna Netrebko and other leading sopranos, owing to the beauty, warmth, and power of her voice. Indeed, critics across the globe have noted the ravishing character of Prohaska's tone, from its secure and potent upper notes to its dark middle register and her seemingly effortless manner of delivery. She sings a range of operatic roles, too, from Poppea in Handel's Agrippina and Blonde in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio to Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and Anne Truelove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Her concert and recital repertory is equally broad, taking in works by Dowland, Purcell, Haydn, Schubert, Mahler, Fauré, Wolf, Berg, Honegger, Luigi Nono, and many others. Prohaska has performed throughout the U.K., Europe, U.S., and Japan, often with such conductors as Barenboim, Abbado, Rattle, and Jansons. Also, she regularly appears in recital with her accompanist, pianist Eric Schneider. Prohaska has recorded for DG and Accentus Music.
Anna Prohaska was born into a musical family in Neu-Ulm, Germany, in 1983. Her great-grandfather, Carl Prohaska, was a respected composer and her grandfather was conductor Felix Prohaska; her Irish-English mother and her brother Daniel are singers and her Austrian father an opera director. Raised in Vienna, Anna began piano and ballet lessons at age six.
At 11 she and her family moved to Berlin. She began vocal studies there at 14 with conductor Eberhard Kloke. Later on at the Berlin-based Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, she continued vocal studies with Brenda Mitchell, Norma Sharp, and Wolfram Rieger.
Prohaska was also busy during her student years on the concert stage, making her first professional appearances at 16 at the North-Rhine Westphalia and Potsdam music festivals. In 2002 she debuted at the Komische Oper Berlin as Flora in Britten's The Turn of The Screw.
Prohaska had further training at the Aix-en-Provence Festival's Académie Européenne de Musique in 2003 and later on at the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe. In 2005 she appeared at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) in the premiere of Seven Attempted Escapes From Silence, a contemporary opera fashioned by seven different composers and librettist Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. In 2006, Prohaska sang Frasquita in a Barenboim-led performance of Bizet's Carmen at the Berlin State Opera, and the following year she became a member of the company. Since 2007, Prohaska has appeared regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2008 Prohaska debuted as the First Wood Nymph at the Salzburg Festival in a Franz Welser-Möst-led production of Dvorák's Rusalka. Prohaska gave the 2009 Berlin premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Mnemosyne, with the Berlin Philharmonic under Matthias Pintscher. Prohaska's 2010 live performance in the Berg Lulu Suite with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra under Abbado was issued on an acclaimed Accentus DVD. In 2011 Prohaska's first recital disc for DG, Sirène, was issued. It featured works by Mahler, Debussy, Dowland, Lawes, and others. 2011 was also the year she signed an exclusive contract with the label.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Maria Mater Meretrix
Anna Prohaska, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Apr 14, 2023
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Bach: Redemption
Anna Prohaska, Lautten Compagney, Wolfgang Katschner
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Jun 26, 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Paradise Lost
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Apr 10, 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Aug 19, 2022
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (Anna Prohaska - Bernarda Fink - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Bernhard Forck)
Anna Prohaska, Bernarda Fink, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Nov 18, 2010
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Celebration of Life in Death
Anna Prohaska, La Folia Barockorchester, Robin Peter Müller
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Feb 25, 2022
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Serpent & Fire (Arias for Dido & Cleopatra)
Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Alpha Classics on May 20, 2016
Gramophone Award24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert
Lara St. John, Anna Prohaska, Marie-Pierre Langlamet
Classical - Released by Ancalagon LLC on Oct 14, 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Weber
Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach, Martin Helmchen, Anna Prohaska
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on May 28, 2021
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Puccini: La bohème, SC 67 / Act 1: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Feb 5, 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Oboe Concertos & Cantatas
Xenia Löffler, Anna Prohaska, Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704, Václav Luks
Classical - Released by Accent on Sep 21, 2018
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Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: 21. Das Wirtshaus (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Sep 18, 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sirène
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Anna Prohaska, Bernarda Fink, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by harmonia mundi on Nov 18, 2010
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Frohe Weihnachten!
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Anna Prohaska - Great Recordings
Classical - Released by UME - Global Clearing House on Jun 22, 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Behind The Lines
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Enchanted Forest
Anna Prohaska, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Classical - Released by Archiv Produktion on Jan 1, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Frohe Weihnachten!
Anna Prohaska, Albrecht Mayer, Daniel Hope, Adoro
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Jan 1, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: 21. Das Wirtshaus (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Sep 18, 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Puccini: La bohème, SC 67 / Act 1: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on Feb 5, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo