Annette Dasch |

Annette Dash

Annette Dasch was born on March 24, 1976 in Berlin. Annette’s parents loved music and instilled this love in their four children. From childhood, Annette performed in the school vocal ensemble and dreamed of becoming a rock singer.

In 1996, Annette moved to Munich to study academic vocals at the Munich Higher School of Music and Theatre. In 1998/99 she also took courses in music and drama at the University of Music and Theater in Graz (Austria). International success came in 2000 when she won three major international vocal competitions – the Maria Callas Competition in Barcelona, ​​the Schumann Songwriting Competition in Zwickau and the competition in Geneva.

Since then, she has performed on the best opera stages in Germany and the world – at the Bavarian, Berlin, Dresden State Operas, the Paris Opera and the Champs Elysees, La Scala, Covent Garden, Tokyo Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and many others. In 2006, 2007, 2008 she performed at the Salzburg Festival, in 2010, 2011 at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.

The range of roles of Annette Dasch is quite wide, among them the roles of Armida (Armida, Haydn), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel, Humperdink), Goose Girls (The Royal Children, Humperdink), Fiordiligi (Everybody Does It So, Mozart ), Elvira (Don Giovanni, Mozart), Elvira (Idomeneo, Mozart), Countess (The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart), Pamina (The Magic Flute, Mozart), Antonia (Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach) , Liu (“Turandot”, Puccini), Rosalind (“The Bat”, Strauss), Freya (“Gold of the Rhine”, Wagner), Elsa (“Lohengrin”, Wagner) and others.

With success, Annette Dasch also performs in concerts. Her repertoire includes songs by Beethoven, Britten, Haydn, Gluck, Handel, Schumann, Mahler, Mendelssohn and others. The singer held her last concerts in many major European cities (for example, in Berlin, Barcelona, ​​Vienna, Paris, London, Parma, Florence, Amsterdam, Brussels), performed at the Schubertiade festival in Schwarzenberg, early music festivals in Innsbruck and Nantes, as well as other prestigious festivals.

Since 2008, Annette Dasch has been hosting her very popular television entertainment music show Dash-salon, whose name in German is consonant with the word “laundry” (Waschsalon).

Season 2011/2012 Annette Dasch opened the European tour with recitals, upcoming operatic engagements include the role of Elvira from Don Giovanni in the spring of 2012 at the Metropolitan Opera, then the role of Madame Pompadour in Vienna, a tour with the Vienna Opera in Japan, another performance at the Bayreuth Festival .