Diana Damrau’s extensive range consists of coloratura and lyric singing. Her title roles in ›Lucia di Lammermoor‹, ›La Traviata‹ as well as The Queen of the Night in ›Die Zauberflöte‹ have taken her all over the world, including La Scala Milano, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Opéra National de Paris, the Wiener Staatsoper and to the Salzburg Festival. In addition, this sought-after soprano is a Bayerische Staatsoper Kammersängerin and also a holder of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Art and Science. She was also recently awarded the Federal Republic of Germany’s Order of Merit.

As a Warner Classics/Erato exclusive artist, Diana Damrau has won numerous awards, including the Echo and the Opus Klassik. At the beginning of 2020, she released Richard Strauss’ ›Vier letzte Lieder‹ under the baton of Mariss Jansons and her most recent album ›Tudor Queens‹ with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nationale di Santa Cecilia was named ›Recording of the Month‹ by BBC Music Magazine. In the 2021/22 season, Diana Damrau can be seen giving her debut as ›Anna Bolena‹ at the Opernhaus Zurich and at the Vienna State Opera. A recital programme featuring lieder by Brahms and Schumann on the theme of love will be taking her, together with Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, to Europe’s most celebrated concert halls.

With his compelling interpretations of Mozart, Jérémie Rhorer took the international music scene by storm almost twenty years ago. Since then, this French conductor and composer has successfully moved between opera and symphonic music. Rhorer was already performing at a high level as a child and went on to study conducting with Emil Tchakarov, Karajan’s renowned assistant, before finally finding his artistic calling whilst studying composition with Thierry Escaich.

Through Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he founded in 2005 and continues to lead to this day, Rhorer is regarded as one of the pioneers of historically informed performance practice for the Classical and Romantic repertoire, exploring a path stretching from Haydn and Mozart through Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms to Bruckner, and from Gluck and Berlioz to Verdi and Wagner –  always with the aim of reviving the timbres and theatricality, in keeping with the spirit of the work.

Guest engagements regularly take him to renowned orchestras worldwide as well as to Europe’s leading opera houses and festivals in Vienna, Amsterdam, Zurich, Brussels, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Venice and Florence, with a repertoire expanding from Mozart to Schoenberg.

In 2025, Jérémie Rhorer received the Honor of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

This sought-after conductor has been working closely with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years. Their current collaboration focuses on works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.