Daniela Fally

Daniela Fally (born 1 February 1980) is an Austrian operatic coloratura soprano. Based at the Vienna State Opera, she has made an international career.

Life Born in Pottenstein, Fally first studied theatre studies and music pedagogy.

Fally made her operatic debut as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Schloss Haldenstein in Chur, Switzerland, at age 21.

She performed as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in 2007. She became a member of the Vienna State Opera in the 2009/10 season, with roles including Zerbinetta, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by R. Strauss, Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Italian singer in Capriccio by R. Strauss, Sophie in Massenet's Werther, and Adele in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. She appeared in the title role of Donizetti's La fille du régiment alongside Juan Diego Flórez.

At the Salzburg Festival, she participated in the inauguration of the new festival hall in 2012. She made her U.S. debut in 2013 as Adele at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She performed as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte on the lake stage of the Bregenz Festival in 2014. In 2015, Fally appeared at the Klosterneuburg Opera as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, as Zerbinetta in Paris, and as Sophie in Tokyo. Her repertoire also includes Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, and Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Concerts and recitals brought Fally to the Lucerne Festival, the Wiener Musikverein and the in Graz, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Salzburgarena, the , the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Munich Prinzregententheater, the Theater Bonn, the Grafenegg Festival, as well as to Switzerland, Japan, China and Dubai. She performed songs by at the Vienna State Opera with pianist Stephanie Houtzeel. The program of a Mother's Day matinee in 2012 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs with actor Peter Matić and pianist Stephan Matthias Lademann exemplifies how confidently the artist is able to combine serious commitment to classical music with comedic elements. the 2012 AIDS Gala of the Oper Bonn and in 2012 and 2014 benefit concerts for the .

Fally has been a voice teacher at the Richard Wagner Konservatorium in Vienna from 2019.

Awards

2005 Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Würdigungspreis