CRITICAL ACCLAIM for
Berg's 'Lulu Suite'
London Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Vladimir Jurowski
The Rest is Noise Series
Royal Festival Hall, London

The Sunday TImes:
“It wasn’t only musical theatre, but musical bliss: the top register spine-tinglingly in tune, the articulation breath-taking, and her subsequent assumption of the Countess Geschwitz role no less riveting.”

The Independant:
“This Canadian soprano’s stage presence is always mesmerising whatever she does"

The Guardian:
“Barbara Hannigan was the compelling soprano soloist in the vocal movements, giving London just a tantalising taste of the performance she gave in the much-admired Brussels production of Lulu earlier this year.

The Times:
“And this performance had a Lulu who embodied, visually and vocally, the strange, deadpan detachment of this most ambivalent heroine: Barbara Hannigan”

The Arts Desk:
“Barbara Hannigan, the pre-eminent Lulu of our day.”

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RECENT CONDUCTING REVIEWS
London Sinfonietta (February 2013)
Tapiola Sinfonietta (April 2013)

The Guardian
"Hannigan returned to conduct the final work, a pungent, punchy account of one of the lest-often heard of Stravinsky's minor masterpieces....Done as slickly as this, its a real treat."
February 2013

The Financial Times
"In Renard, a 20 minute folk tale burlesque, a lively quartet of singers and the London Sinfonietta, with Hannigan conducting, showed how vividly Stravinsky could compress an opera, and indeed a whole sound-world."
February 2013

Göteborgs Posten
"...one can appreciate that no one else could achieve anything close to Barbara Hannigan’s musical and theatrical performance. Hence the mark above! (Five stars.) Seven minutes of Rossini, fourteen minutes of Mozart, five of Nono, fifteen of Stravinsky and twenty one of Ligeti. How does one characterise that? A combination seldom offered!"
April 2013

Helsingin Sanomat
"Barbara Hannigan, who has become known as a soprano, conducted Tapiola Sinfonietta, sang arias and accompanied herself on the piano. (...)
An alliance of multiplicity, quality and artistic integrity is rare. Her versatility is both deep and wide. "
April 2013

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CD REVIEWS
Dutilleux: 'Correspondances'
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Deutsche Grammophon

"Barbara Hannigan has made the music very much her own and the nonagenarian composer has written a new, suitably stratospheric ending for her, as magical as one might have hoped.”
Gramophone Magazine, May 2013

"In this, the first commercial recording of the song cycle 'Correspondances', Barbara Hannigan is simply superb - faultless pitching, crystal-clear words, a shining tone, and total empathy with the composer's message."
BBC Music Magazine, May 2013

"Par leur interprétation idéale, Esa Pekka Salonen et Barbara Hannigan exaltent la profonde humanité de la partition. "
La Croix



Britten: 'Les Illuminations'
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Channel Classics 32213

Gramophone Magazine:
"Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan brings to the texts the dramatix energy she has to burn in her championship of Ligeti and Boulez, while the conductorless orchestra and soloist (herself sometimes a conductor) sound a natural fit."
March 2013