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Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan received
her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees
from the University of Toronto where she studied
with Mary Morrison. Further studies took place at
the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Steans Institute
for Young Artists at Ravinia, the Centre d’arts
Orford, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
in Holland where she studied with Meinard Kraak.
Her operatic roles include Lucia
in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia,
Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte,
Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice,
Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s
Progress, the title role in Janacek’s
The Cunning Little Vixen, Belinda in Purcell's
Dido and Aeneas, Emmeline in Purcell's King
Arthur, Larinda in Hasse’s Larinda
e Vanesio as well as the title roles in Hasse’s
La Contadina and La Fantesca, Arethuze
in Charpentier’s Acteon, Armida in
Händel’s Rinaldo and Dalinda
in Händel’s Ariodante. She sang
the world premiere of operas including Louis Andriessen’s
Writing to Vermeer (Saskia) with the Netherlands
Opera, Jan van de Putte’s Wet Snow
(Liza) with Holland’s National Reisopera,
Luca Mosca’s Signor Goldoni (Despina)
at La Fenice, Michel van der Aa’s solo opera
One for soprano, film and electronics (toured
to 12 countries), Gerald Barry’s The Bitter
Tears of Petra von Kant (Gabrielle) at English
National Opera, and Dusapin's Passion (Lei),
for the Festival of Aix-en-Provence. She will sing
the world premieres of the new operas by Toshio
Hosokawa (directed by Sasha Waltz) and George Benjamin
(directed by Luc Bondy).
Barbara Hannigan has performed with orchestras
and ensembles including the Berlin Philharmonic,
Cleveland Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, l’Orchestre
National de France, Toronto Symphony, Paris Opera,
Helsinki Philharmonic, Holland’s Radio Orchestras,
Bamberger Symphoniker, the Radio Symphony Orchestras
of Frankfurt and Finland, Ensemble Intercontemporain,
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, the SWR German
Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain,
London Sinfonietta, Musikfabrik, the Asko and Schoenberg
Ensembles and the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, in
repertoire ranging from Händel, Bach and Mozart,
to Knussen, Dutilleux, Webern, Stravinsky and Ligeti.
As part of Maurizio Pollini’s Progetto
Pollini, she has been touring with him singing
the music of Luigi Nono, most recently at La Scala.
She has worked with conductors
including Reinbert de Leeuw, Esa Pekka Salonen,
Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Jukka
Pekka Saraste, Ingo Metzmacher, Peter Oundjian,
Oliver Knussen, Jonathan Nott, Peter Rundel, Michael
Gielen, and Peter Eötvös, and has had
the privilege of working with composers including
György Ligeti, Louis Andriessen, Gerald Barry,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Oliver Knussen and Henri
Dutilleux.
She has received much acclaim for her
performances of the music of Gyorgy Ligeti.
She has sung his Mysteries of the Macabre,
a tour de force for soprano and orchestra, in
New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Berlin, Helsinki,
Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Vienna and Cologne. She
sang Ligeti’s Requiem with the
Berlin Philharmonic in 2006, conducted by Peter
Eötvös, and at the Salzburg Festival
in 2004, with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted
by Jonathan Nott, with upcoming performances in
Paris (Salonen), Munich (Salonen), Berlin and
Salzburg (Rattle). Last season she triumphed in
the roles of Gepopo and Venus in Le Grand
Macabre at La Monnaie in the new production
by La Fura dels Baus.
Dutilleux’s Correspondances
for soprano and orchestra has become
a major work in her repertoire, which she has
sung with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by
Sir Simon Rattle, Holland’s Radio Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, CBSO
conducted by Sakari Oramo at the 2005 BBC Proms,
the Helsinki Philharmonic conducted by Esa Pekka
Salonen, the Orchestre National de France conducted
by Kurt Masur, the Toronto Symphony conducted
by Peter Oundjian, at the Palais Garnier with
the Paris Opera Orchestra conducted by Oliver
Knussen, and with the Oslo Philharmonic conducted
by Jukka Pekka Saraste.
Upcoming engagements include
opera productions at La Monnaie, Aix-en-Provence,
Covent Garden, La Scala Milan and Barcelona Liceu,
concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, New
York Philharmonic and the Bayerischen Rundfunk,
a European tour of Pli selon pli with
Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre
Boulez, and the title role in Stravinsky’s
Le Rossignol with the Berlin Philharmonic.
last updated: 2 November 2009
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