Annette Dasch - That is why music is the most important thing (2011)

The documentary supports the concert performance and gives deep insights into Annette Dasch’s life, personality and career. There is nothing she would rather do than make music, and that came naturally to her, growing up in a musical family – as the young soprano frankly admits, having worked on the international stage ever since her student days and attained world-class status by the time of her acclaimed performance as Armida at the 2007 Salzburg Festival, which earned her a well deserved ECHO Klassik award for her debut CD “Armida”. The portrait shows the soprano at rehearsals and performances in the 2010/2011 season, which was notable for important new assignments and experiences: Annette Dasch debuted at the Bayreuth Festival, under the direction of Hans Neuenfels, and set new standards as Elsa in Wagner’s “Lohengrin”. At the Grand Théâtre de Genève, she made her eponymous debut as “The Merry Widow” in Lehár’s operetta, staged by Christof Loy. And there were far-reaching changes in her personal life too: Annette Dasch married the Austrian baritone Daniel Schmutzhard and moved from her home city of Berlin to Frankfurt am Main prior to the birth of her first child. The film shows the singer preparing for a Munich recital, together with her accompanist Helmut Deutsch, and in Berlin on the set of “Annettes DaschSalon”, which has become an institution. This is a show in which she and other members of her musical family invite various guests on stage for various reasons – a lively exchange of views, party games, poetry readings and of course shared music-making, where the audience are invited to take part. That was a long held wish of the artist, who finds in it the expression of what motivated her to follow this calling – pure joy in music, which she would like to share with others. A film by Annette Schreier Watch Annette Dasch in concert:    • Annette Dasch - Die Gretchenfrage | The Cr...   Subscribe to EuroArts: https://goo.gl/jrui3M