Soprano Diana Damrau has been performing on the world’s leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans both lyric soprano and coloratura roles including the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House), Manon (Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera) and La Traviata (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Opéra national de Paris and Bavarian State Opera) as well as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House, Bavarian State Opera).
She has been invested as Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera (2007) and holder of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2010).
I remember learning this as a teenager When my instructor first had me try singing it, he had previously been pulling out various songs in Italian and English, which I hadn't liked. We even tried one in French (a language I've only rarely really gotten along with) and we easily agreed that was NOT a song for me after I had tried it. Then we did THIS one and we both knew it had clicked! I like the sound of the German language and I was very happy to get to sing it. It sticks out in my memory so much it feels nostalgic. In fact I just went and found guitar chords for it! This is a lovely rendition of it 🤍
