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German soprano Diana Damrau is fast becoming a coloratura superstar. Her recent triumph as winner of Female Singer of the Year at the Opera Awards, followed on from her success in Italy, where she opened the 13/14 season at Teatro alla Scala in Milan – an honour bestowed upon few of her fellow countrywomen – singing Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov under the baton of Daniele Gatti, which was broadcast live on television and radio throughout Europe and in selected movie theaters throughout Europe and USA. Diana brings her charming interpretations and beguiling voice to a wide range of repertoire, as presented on her most recent solo album Forever. This release sees Diana take the lead role in one of Donizetti’s best-loved operas, Lucia di Lammermoor, amongst a stellar cast of the world’s leading belcanto interpreters, including singers Ludovic Tézier and Joseph Calleja, and further affirms her place as one of the most important coloratura sopranos of her generation. Reviews BBC Music Magazine January 2015 “Damrau seizes hold of the text and is expressive and imaginative with her vocalism, even if she lacks an ideal richness of tone to quite achieve classic status. She’s slightly outgunned by Calleja, whose highly distinctive voice allows him to be ardent and eager; he shapes his lines with firm and sound artistic intentions. – 4 out of 5 stars Financial Times 22nd November 2014 “For the modern coloratura soprano it is not enough just to sing. Diana Damrau has a strong sense of theatre and her portrayal of Walter Scott’s wretched Lucy is typically intense. Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment there are also more than a few shrill sounds. – 3 out of 5 stars Gramophone Magazine January 2015 “It would be mealy-mouthed to deny the soprano’s cool, unflinching note-for-note accuracy. In the Mad scene every high note and every strand of coloratura written or implied…has been faultlessly planned and rehearsed and is executed likewise…But our temperatures rarely rise or our pulses beat faster. The Times 19th December 2014 “Damrau creates her own Lucia, precise and detailed enough in technique to keep the consonants crisp and rolling even when the doomed character is most unhinged, yet still able to tingle spines with her crazed vocal pyrotechnics…With Joseph Calleja’s Edgardo you feel his dark charisma the moment he enters…Tézier’s strapping baritone serves him well as the villainous Enrico. – 4 out of 5 stars |
