Addio del passato damrau biography
Diana Damrau was born in Günzburg, Bavaria on into a musical family..
In the dying Violetta's exquisite farewell to bygone days (“Addio, del passato”), the insistent pathos of the off-beat accents is evocative of.
Diana Damrau
“Ms. Damrau was an extraordinary Violetta, singing with big, plush yet focused sound, taking enormous but well-calculated dramatic liberties during Violetta’s moments of soulful reflection and wrenching despair over her illness.”
New York Times
“Diana Damrau, a consummate singing actress, was in her element with this characterization.
Her pearly soprano and spicy coloratura captured Violetta’s brittle fever of self-deception in Act I; Act III’s “Addio del passato” sounded, appropriately, as if drawn from her last ounce of strength. But Act II was the most original: At the end of the confrontation with Germont, Alfredo’s father, who demands that she give him up for the sake of family propriety, Violetta issues her own demand: that Alfredo be told of her sacrifice when she is dead.
Some sopranos make this a plea: Ms. Damrau made it seem like a threat—if he didn’t comply, she would haunt him forever.”
Wall Street Journal
“The evening’s greatest d