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The young Austrian-English singer Anna Prohaska has had a dizzyingly steep career: she made her debut at the Komische Oper at the age of 17, and at the age of 23 she was heard for the first time at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, of which she is now a permanent member of the ensemble , and at the age of 24 she made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. Anna Prohaska received the coveted Echo Klassik Prize, the Daphne Prize, the Schneider-Schott Music Prize, the Berlin Art Prize of the Academy of Performing Arts and in 2017 she was awarded the International Classical Music Award ICMA. Anna Prohaska will be a guest at the Schwetzinger SWR Festival for the first time in 2016. Accompanied by her musical partner, the violinist Veronika Eberle, and a top-class instrumental ensemble, the singer presents works by Schubert, Webern and Pergolesi. Anna Prohaska sings three completely different works, all of which have a common subject: the Mother of God. Schubert’s little-known “Salve Regina“ is complemented by the equivalent Pergolesi and Anton von Webern’s “Schmerz, immer blick’ nach hoch“, in which Webern deals with the experience of his own mother’s death. The program is rounded off with Schubert’s romance “I creep around anxiously and quietly“ from the opera “The Conspirators“. The film not only presents Anna Prohaska as a great singer, but also accompanies her in Schwetzingen as she prepares for the concert and provides insights into her eventful life as a world-renowned soprano who has now sung on almost all of the world’s major stages and released numerous CDs.
