Angela Denoke

Angela Denoke appears regularly with the opera houses of Vienna, New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Munich, Madrid and Barcelona, as well as the Salzburger Festspiele and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her recordings include Vec Makropulos (Salzburg Festival 2011, DVD), Salome (Baden-Baden, DVD), Alceste (Madrid, DVD), a New Year’s Eve Lehár Gala (Staatskapelle Dresden with Christian Thielemann, CD and DVD), Die tote Stadt, Die Walküre, Kátya Kabanová, Cardillac, Beethoven Symphony No.9 (with Mikhail Pletnev / DG and Daniel Barenboim / Warner), Wozzeck (with Ingo Metzmacher / EMI) and Fidelio (with Simon Rattle / EMI).

Her jazz and chanson program “From Babelsberg to Beverly Hills”, devoted to the era of Marlene Dietrich and Zarah Leander, has toured throughout Europe. Her Kurt Weill recital “Two Lives to Live” was premiered at the 2011 Salzburger Festspiele and toured venues including the Wiener Staatsoper and the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona. "Two Lives to Live" and her latest recital program “Tanz auf dem Vulkan” with music of the Weimar Republic (recently performed at the Cologne Philharmonie) were both recorded by HonigTee.com.

Recent engagements include appearances at the Wiener Staatsoper as Geschwitz in “Lulu”, Hamburg State Opera as Nina in Péter Eötvös’ “Senza Sangue”, Kundry in “Parsifal” at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Brangäne in “Tristan und Isolde” on tour in Buenos Aires with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and as Judith in Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” for the Metropolitan Opera, New York. She also gave concert performances of Schoenberg’s “Erwartung” with the Philharmonie Essen, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva and the Philharmonia Orchestra (Esa-Peka Salonen) in London.

Opera highlights of the 2020/21 season include performances of Mrs Grose in Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin as well as Goneril in Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” for the Bayerische Staatsoper. She will give her “Tanz auf dem Vulkan” recital at the Philharmonie Essen. Angela will also be making her directing debut with “Katya Kabanova” for the Theater Ulm.

Angela Denoke was voted Singer of the Year by Opernwelt in 1999 and in 2007 received the Deutsche Theaterpreis Der Faust for her portrayal of Salome. In February 2009 the Austrian Government awarded her the title of Kammersängerin of the Wiener Staatsoper.

Angela Denoke appears with the GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER already for the second time after 1998.