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Signor
Goldoni
opera by Luca Mosca
(world
premiere, live dvd recording)
conducted
by Andrea Molino, directed
by Davide Livingstone
Teatro La Fenice, 2007
Dynamic Italy B001RJXC7G
available through www.amazon.com
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"Late
in the opera, Barbara Hannigan
(Despina) is dazzling in
one of the most virtuoso
coloratura arias this reviewer
has ever heard."
Opera
News, Autumn 2009 |
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The
House of the Sleeping Beauties
opera by Kris Defoort (world
premiere, live recording)
Asko | Schoenberg Ensemble,
conducted by Patrick Davin
La Monnaie, Brussels, 2009
FUG 708 - 2 CDs
www.fugalibera.com
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"...the
most riveting performance
was that of Canadian soprano
Barbara Hannigan: her
agile coloratura easily
overcame the difficult
passages in the part of
The Woman, including a
brief episode in the 2nd
Night where I was reminded
of Ariadne auf Naxos's
ebullient Zerbinetta."
The
Bulletin May 14,
2009
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Sables,
Oxygène
for soprano and orchestra
by Bart Visman, with poems
by Saskia Macris
(world premiere, live recording)
Limburgs
Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Ed Spanjaard
Etcetera - KTC1378
www.prestoclassical.co.uk
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"Above
all the last work, brilliantly
sung and interpreted by
soprano Barbara Hannigan
and the Limburg Symphony
Orchestra, has a hallucinatory
quality, in which the
music rose above the sometimes
looming threat of nostalgia."
De
Volkskrant, Netherlands
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Symphony
No. 4
Gustav Mahler
Toronto
Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Peter Oundjian
available
through: download.tso.ca/app
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"The
(Mahler Fourth) symphony's
otherworldly finale, a child's
innocent ideal of heaven,
once more brought Hannigan
into the spotlight, and
again she sang with a winning
combination of technical
aplomb, warmth and understanding."
Detroit
News, March 15, 2008 |
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Etymo
for
soprano and chamber ensemble,
with live electronics
Luca Francesconi
IRCAM
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Susanna Malkki, conductor
KAIROS 0012712KAI
available through www.amazon.com
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“In
Etymo, the skillful
soprano Barbara Hannigan
sings, chants and otherwise
intones lines and verses
by Baudelaire while a chamber
ensemble ripples and surges
around her. Ms. Hannigan’s
voice is like a siren call
amid the music’s iridescent
swirl; now and again Mr
Francesconi isolates her
sound and distorts it through
electronics means, adding
immesurably to the hallucinatory
effect.”
New
York Times, cd review, June
29, 2008 |
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Writing
to Vermeer
Louis Andriessen
with the Asko and Schoenberg
Ensemble, conducted by Reinbert
de Leeuw
Nonesuch
Records (USA)
available through www.amazon.com
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“The
impressive Barbara Hannigan
sings Saskia, a high soprano
role with sweetly angelic
vocal lines that sometimes
turn tremulous and wistfully
sad.”
New
York Times, Writing to Vermeer
cd review, July 2006 |
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“As
Saskia, Canadian soprano
Barbara Hannigan, whose
part is the highest, is
an energetic singer you
can't take your ears off;
her entrance in Scene 2,
introduced by Andriessen
in the score with some of
the highest-register symphonic
writing in an opera whose
music tends toward those
ranges, is a standout.”
Washington
Post, Writing to Vermeer
cd review, May 13, 2006 |
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Rinaldo
George Frederick Handel
with
the Aradia Baroque Orchestra,
conducted by Kevin Mallon
Naxos (USA)
available through www.amazon.com
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“Barbara
Hannigan's Armida is nicely
teeth-gnashing: she sings
the heck out of her arias
and duets and her recits
are delivered with real
fire.”
Classics
Today, Rinaldo cd review,
May 2006
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