Anna Prohaska effortlessly mastered Anne’s coloratura outbursts, and her lullaby for the dying Tom was as moving as the production allowed.”
– Opera [review of Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress at the Deutsche Staatsoper, 2011]
She sculpted her phrases elegantly, singing with confidence and emotional conviction. Her vocal range was impressive, extending from richly resounding low notes to soaring, brilliant coloratura passages. Opera News [review of Handel’s Agrippina at the Deutsche Staatsoper, 2010]
Born into a distinguished musical family in Vienna (her great-grandfather was the composer Carl Prohaska, her grandfather the conductor and teacher Felix Prohaska), Anna Prohaska studied in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and made her debut in 2002 at the Komische Oper in Harry Kupfer’s production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw and then in Willy Decker’s production of Albert Herring. After taking on the role of Frasquita at short notice in a production of Carmen conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, she was engaged a member of its permanent ensemble; in December 2010 at the Staatsoper, she sang Anne Trulove in a new production of The Rake’s Progress under Ingo Metzmacher. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in Rusalka under Franz Welser-M?st in 2008; in 2009 she returned for Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore and in 2010 sang her first Zerlina there.