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.

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.