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Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan received
her Bachelor of Music (1993) and Master of Music
(1998) 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, Larinda in Hasse’s
Larinda e Vanesio as well as the title
roles in Hasse’s La Contadina and
La Fantesca, Bastienne in Mozart’s
Bastien und Bastienne, 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, and Gabrielle in the world
première of Gerald Barry’s The
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at English National
Opera. Most recently she gave the world premiere
performances of Passion, the new opera
of Pascal Dusapin, at the Festival of Aix en Provence,
now starting its European tour.
She has performed with orchestras and ensembles
including the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland
Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, l’Orchestre
National de France, Toronto Symphony, Paris Opera,
Helsinki Philharmonic, Holland’s Radio Symphony
Orchestra, Radio Chamber Orchestra and Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra, , 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 and Ligeti. As part
of Maurizio Pollini’s Progetto Pollini, she
has been touring with him singing works of Luigi
Nono.
She has worked with conductors
including Reinbert de Leeuw, Esa Pekka Salonen,
Sir Simon Rattle, 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 Ligeti’s Mysteries
of the Macabre, a tour de force for soprano
and orchestra which she has sung with orchestras
in New York, LA, Toronto, Berlin, Helsinki, Frankfurt,
Amsterdam, Vienna and Cologne. She sang Ligeti’s
Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006,
conducted by Peter Eotvos, and at the Salzburg Festival
in 2004, with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted
by Jonathan Nott.
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 and the Netherlands Opera,
concerts with Ensemble Modern, LA Philharmonic,
Deutsche Symphonie Orkest, Ensemble Intercontemporain,
London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, and the title
role in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol
with the Berlin Philharmonic.
last updated: 18 August 2008
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