The Croatian singer with Italian roots studied at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Dunja Vejzović. She is still coached by Brigitte Fassbaender.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include her role debut as Elettra („Idomeneo“) and Fremde Fürstin („Rusalka“), her return to the Musiktheater an der Wien with the operetta „Das Spitzentuch der Königin“, concerts in Rijeka, with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, in Lisbon and Stuttgart, among others.
After a year in the opera studio of the Stuttgart State Opera, Diana Haller became the youngest member of the ensemble in the 2010/11 season. The artist can be heard there in her wide-ranging repertoire, which includes roles from baroque to bel canto to parts by Richard Strauss. In 2021, she was awarded the title of ‚Kammersängerin‘ at this house.
Guest engagements have taken the singer to the Salzburg Festival, the Handel Festival in London, the Bregenz Festival, the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, where she received the prestigious Belcanto Prize, the Savonlinna Festival and the opera houses in Zurich, Dresden, Milan, Strasbourg, Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt, among others.
The winner of numerous international competitions, including 1st prize at the ‚8th International Competition for Lied Art‘ at the Hugo Wolf Academy and the ‚5th Manhattan International Competition‘, she is equally in demand as a Lied and concert singer and can be heard on all major concert stages. In concert she works with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Jordi Savall and Diego Fasolis as well as with the symphony orchestras of the WDR, MDR and NDR and the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin.
At the Maggio Fiorentino she sang Mahler’s „8th Symphony“ under Fabio Luisi, as well as the same symphony at the Bregenz Festival under the direction of Kirill Petrenko. She has given recitals at the Hugo Wolf Academy, at the Stuttgart Opera, at the Eppan Song Festival, at the Schubertiade Hohenems, in Mexico, at the National Theater in Rijeka, in Vienna, Zagreb and elsewhere.
Diana Haller has also expanded her repertoire to include individual soprano roles and has already enjoyed great success as ‚Elettra’/““. Future roles include ‚Leonora’/“Il Trovatore”, ‚Desdemona’/“Otello” (Rossini) at the Bad Wildbad Festival, as well as the title role in “Norma”.