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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.
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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, 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.
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 the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt
Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Asko and Schönberg
Ensembles of Amsterdam, with further performances
in Cologne and Vienna. She made her BBC Proms debut
in August 2003, performing Ligeti’s Aventures
and Nouvelles Aventures with the London
Sinfonietta conducted by Peter Eötvös,
and sang Ligeti’s Requiem in 2004
with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan
Nott at the Salzburg Festival and in 2007 with the
Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2006 she sang Mysteries
of the Macabre, Aventures and
Nouvelles Aventures with the Chamber Music
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Dutilleux’s
Correspondances for soprano and orchestra
has become a major work in her repertoire, which
she has sung with the Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Reinbert de Leeuw in 2003, and more recently
with the 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, Berliner Philharmoniker conducted
by Sir Simon Rattle and at the Palais Garnier with
the Paris Opera Orchestra and Oliver Knussen, with
further performances planned for Madrid, Oslo and
Cardiff.
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She
has performed with orchestras and ensembles
including the Berliner Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra,
l’Orchestre National de France, the orchestra
of the Paris Opera, Helsinki Philharmonic, Holland’s
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio Chamber Orchestra
and Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, l’Orchestre
National de France, Bamberger Symphoniker, the Radio
Symphony Orchestras of Frankfurt and Finland, Combattimento
Consort Amsterdam, the SWR German Radio Orchestra,
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. In the
2005-06 season, she was invited by Maurizio Pollini
to sing Luigi Nono’s A floresta at
concerts in Tokyo, Vienna and Bologna.
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. |
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engagements include debuts in productions
at La Fenice, La Monnaie, Aix en Provence Festival,
Berlin Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. |
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