The Queen of the Night from Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'' has been Damrau's most frequently performed role to date, as she has been engaged to perform it in over 15 productions at houses including Covent Garden, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, Oper Frankfurt and the Bavarian State Opera, Munich. Damrau made Metropolitan Opera history in the 2007/2008 season by appearing as both Pamina and Queen of the Night in the same run, but different performances. Other coloratura roles in her repertoire include Zerbinetta, Lucia, Elvira, Rosina, Gilda, Adina, Marie and Aminta. She also performs roles in the lyric repertoire including Manon, Donna Anna, Gretel and Pamina.
After the birth of her first child in October 2010, Damrau returned to the stage in January 2011 to perform the role of Elvira in a new production of Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto opera ''I puritani'' at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva, followed by a return to the Metropolitan Opera, New York, for a new production of Rossini's comic opera ''Le comte Ory'' and the title role in Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' for the company's tour of Japan. The up-and-coming 2011/2012 season promises further exploration of the bel canto repertoire as Damrau assumes the title role in Donizetti's ''Linda di Chamounix'' at the Liceu in Barcelona. The soprano will return to the Metropolitan Opera as both Adina and Rosina and bring her portrayal of Donizetti's Lucia to Berlin and Vienna. Damrau is scheduled to play all four heroines in Offenbach's ''Les contes d'Hoffmann'' in a new production at the Bavarian State Opera.
As well as performing in operas, Damrau is a regular on the concert stage. She has performed Lieder repertoire at Vienna's Musikverein, at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, La Scala, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Austria, and both the Munich and Salzburg Festivals. Her concert repertoire includes Carl Orff's ''Carmina Burana'', Mozart's ''Great Mass in C minor'', Requiem and ''Exsultate, jubilate'' as well as Handel's ''Messiah''. She has performed with such esteemed conductors as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Leonard Slatkin, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Jesús López-Cobos.
Previous recordings include Mahler's ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn'', and Schumann's ''Myrthen'', Op. 25, with the Telos label and live recordings of her summer 2005 ''Liederabend'' at the Salzburg Festival and her summer 2006 ''Liederabend'' at the Schubertiade are released on the Orfeo label. Damrau also appears on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi's release of Mozart's ''Zaide'' in the title role, and performs alongside Adrianne Pieczonka on mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča's first solo release with Deutsche Grammophon; together, they perform the trio finale from Richard Strauss' ''Der Rosenkavalier''.
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