The Croatian mezzo-soprano Diana Haller is an ensemble member of the Stuttgart Opera, where she sings all the important roles of her character type, including Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dorabella (Cosí fan tutte), Orlowsky (Fledermaus), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Ruggiero (Alcina), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Adalgisa (Norma), Ariodante, and Giulio Cesare. Guest engagements have taken the artist to Milan’s La Scala, the Hamburg State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, the Cologne Opera, and the Zürich Opernhaus.

 

Diana Haller has been a prizewinner at a number of competitions, including, among others, first prize at the 8th International Competition for Art Song of the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart. She has presented her extensive Lied and concert repertoire at renowned concert venues, such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Maggio Musicale Firenze, the Cologne Philharmonie, Heidelberger Frühling, and the Schubertiade Hohenems. She maintains an active collaboration with orchestras such as the NDR Symphonieorchester, the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Symphony Orchestra Zagreb, and the Symphonisches Orchester Vorarlberg.

 

Diana Haller studied at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart with Dunja Vejzovic. Sie is currently coached by Brigitte Fassbaender. 

 

Her discography includes works by Handel and Bach (Chorus of the Bavarian Radio/Concerto Köln), a recording of Gounod’s Faust (Universal Music), and a solo album with Lieder by Schumann and Wolf.