Barbara Hannigan has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2020, regarded as Denmark’s highest classical musical honor.
Reviews: let me tell you with the London Symphony Orchestra
Reviews of let me tell you Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra 9 & 10 January 2019, Barbican Hall The Times Niel Fisher, 14 January 2019 (4 out of 5 stars) “It would take a long time to absorb all the tiny details from Abrahamsen’s similarly intricate drama, written for the soprano Barbara Hannigan. Let me tell you …
Crazy Girl Crazy: Opus Klassik Award for Best Solo Performance / Vocals of the Year (Oratorio, Concert, Lied)
Crazy Girl Crazy, the debut album of Barbara Hannigan as singer and conductor is the winner of the 2018 Opus Klassik Award for Best Solo Performance / Vocals of the Year (Oratorio, Concert, Lied). The Opus Klassik Award is the new award for classical music in Germany (succeeding the former ECHO-Klassik) and the winning discs are selected by a jury …
Bérénice: world premiere at Opéra national de Paris
Barbara Hannigan is Bérénice in the Opéra national de Paris world premiere by Michael Jarrell.
Reviews Vienna: Fin de Siècle: “hypnotic”, “sensual”, “thrilling immediacy”
The Times (5 out of 5 stars) Geoff Brown, 21 September 2018 Feverish poetry performed by a seriously sensuous soprano “Barbara Hannigan and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw cast a spell with Vienna: Fin de Siècle” “It’s clear from this hypnotic and lovely album that the Canadian soprano is a powerful singer of late romantic lieder” “De Leeuw’s piano playing, gently …
Lessons in Love and Violence at Dutch National Opera
Following the highly acclaimed world premiere at London’s Royal Opera House, Lessons in Love and Violence travelled to Amsterdam to the Dutch National Opera as part of the Holland Festival, with Barbara as Queen Isabel.
World premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence
Lessons in Love and Violence is the latest collaboration between composer George Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp. Their previous work includes the large-scale opera Written on Skin – which has since become the most performed new opera of the 21st century. The world premiere of Lessons in Love and Violence opened at London’s Royal Opera House on May 10th. The …
2018 JUNO Award: Crazy Girl Crazy Classical Album of the Year
Crazy Girl Crazy, the debut album of Barbara Hannigan as singer and conductor is the winner of the 2018 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral. The JUNO Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music …
Crazy Girl Crazy nominated for a Juno Award
Crazy Girl Crazy nominated for a Juno Award in the category Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral. The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music.
Barbara Hannigan & LUDWIG on tour: “magical” “sensational” “overwhelming”
Last December soprano/conductor Barbara Hannigan and LUDWIG Orchestra toured throughout Europe, performing music from their Grammy nominated album, Crazy Girl Crazy. Reviews de Volkskrant , 05 December 2017 “The enamoured public knows: we’ll still be talking about this in fifty years” “On Monday she confirmed in the Concertgebouw what we never should have doubted: Hannigan is not only the coolest …