About
Daniela Fally (born February 1, 1980 in Pottenstein) is an Austrian opera singer (coloratura soprano).
Fally completed her vocal studies with distinction in June 2005 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she studied opera singing with Helena Łazarska, song and oratorio with Edith Mathis, having previously completed a theater science degree, musical education and private acting education with final stage exams (also with distinction). Since the age of 19 she has been on stage again and again, first as an actress, later in musicals and finally as an opera singer. She also won some prizes.
Fally had her beginnings alongside Felix Dvorak at the Stadttheater Berndorf: "There I was the girl for everything. From lighting to sponsorship, I did everything! And another important step was my involvement at the Stadttheater Baden, where I had my first speaking roles. "It joined an activity at the Municipal Theater Mödling, which was then also directed by Dvorak.
Her opera debut was as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni in Switzerland. In the summer of 2005, she portrayed the Bronislava in Carl Millöckers beggar student at Lehár Festival Bad Ischl, from autumn 2005 she was a member of the ensemble Volksoper Wien for four years and was able to develop a comprehensive repertoire across all genres.
Debut at the Vienna State Opera
After Franz Welser-Möst had experienced her in Bad Ischl, Fally debuted on December 9, 2006 as Fiakermilli in Richard Strauss' Arabella at the Vienna State Opera with great success in the press and the audience: "So debutante Daniela Fally is the heroine of the evening: The quicke Fiakermilli completes sparkling coloratura - some more even, as the Gruberova once did - as well as acrobatic stunts that fit into the half-silk ambience,". Thus, the critic of the press addresses the exorbitant mobility of the singer, which even managed a balancing act during the main aria. Even the otherwise cool opera reporter of the standard resorted to praising words like "shiny" and "impeccable". After the international press - especially the Herald Tribune - literally overturned in anthems, an international career has already emerged.
International career
First, the artist debuted in 2007 as Zerbinetta at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. The press critic praised "exuberant operetta temperament and the coloratura sophistication of a world-class opera diva," the standard left its usual sobriety and reported "a very decent musical performance, with, of course, Daniela Fally (as Zerbinetta) giving the most applause , And rightly so. She masters the coloratura-spotted lot with flying colors; but she also manages to draw the figure believably - between sympathy for the composer and the body-conscious confrontation with her male fans, which then develops on the piano almost in the direction of fast fives. A voice for prominent houses! "In January 2008, even in the American magazine Opera News a hymn of praise was par excellence:" Daniela Fally's very first Zerbinetta has what it takes to make Natalie Dessay and Diana Damrau in cover. She feels quite comfortable in the vocal stratosphere, her voice is both big and adorable, she has a captivating technique (which trills!), A seemingly infinite height - she is tiny, free of inhibitions, has the grace of one Ballerina and the mobility of a contortionist. "
It took almost three years, but since the 2009/10 season, the singer belongs to the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, where she has been to such times as Zerbinetta, Sophie Rosenkavalier, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, Rosina in Barbiere di Siviglia, as well as an Italian singer in Capriccio, when Sophie was in the Werther and Adele was seen and heard in the bat. On the side of Juan Diego Flórez, she sang the title role in Donizetti's La fille du régiment (The Regimental Daughter), with Piotr Beczała in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Olympics).
In 2009 she took over the title role of the regimental daughter also at the opera Klosterneuburg. In 2011, the singer was engaged to the Opéra national Rhin in Strasbourg, as Blonde in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, and guested as Zerbinetta at the Munich Opera Festival at the Bavarian State Opera, as well as at the Cologne Opera. In 2012 she sang both the regimental daughter and the Zerbinetta at the Hamburg State Opera, in Strasbourg she was the Sophie and at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch the Adele. In November of this year she was engaged as Sophie at the Semperoper in Dresden. She also sang the Adele in Munich, Zurich and Dusseldorf, the Fiakermilli in Hamburg, and the Zerbinetta in Liège.
In 2012, she opened the first festival ball at the Salzburg Festival. In December 2013 she made her debut as Adele at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in April 2014 as Fiakermilli at the Salzburg Easter Festival under the direction of Christian Thielemann. She also took over this role in November 2014 at the Semperoper. In the summer of 2014, she made her debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Bregenz Festival Seebühne. In 2015, Fally debuted at the Klosterneuburg Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto, singing the Zerbinetta in Paris and the Sophie in Tokyo. Her repertoire includes Norina at Don Pasquale, Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel and Titania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Her popularity with the audience also reflects numerous appearances on television, including in the cult show Wir sind Kaiser, in which they as reasons for their commitment to the Vienna State Opera - in addition to the three-line E in Bad Ischl - quite ironically also stated: a "relatively deep Exhausted décolleté and I have already done splits back then in Bad Ischl. "
In the concert hall
Concerts and recitals brought Fally to the Lucerne Festival, the Wiener Musikverein and the Musikverein für Steiermark in Graz, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Salzburgarena, the Großer Kongresssaal Innsbruck, the Hamburger Laeiszhalle, the Munich Prinzregententheater, the Theater Bonn, the Grafenegg Festival, as well as Switzerland, Japan, China and Dubai. Oliver Ostermann composed the song cycle of birds and insects for the Fally, which she premiered in the Wiener Musikverein. Together with Stephanie Houtzeel she presented songs by Albin Fries in an afternoon concert of the Vienna State Opera. The program of a Mother's Day Matinee 2012 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs with the actor Peter Matić and the pianist Matthias Lademann shows how sovereign the artist is able to combine a serious commitment to classical music with comedic elements.
Daniela Fally has worked with well-known conductors and conductors such as Ádám Fischer, Asher Fisch, Fabio Luisi, Leopold Hager, Julia Jones, Philippe Jordan, Simone Young, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Schneider, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bertrand de Billy and Christoph Eschenbach.
In 2008, Fally participated in the 15th Festival Opera Gala of the German AIDS Foundation, in 2012 at the AIDS Gala of the Bonn Opera. In 2012 and 2014, Fally appeared in charity concerts for Wiener Hilfswerk.