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Barbara Hannigan and LUDWIG gave two performances of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Klarafestival on 25 and 26 March, featuring singers from Equilibrium Young Artists.
Inspired by Faust’s story of temptation, lust and decline, Barbara conducted this semi-staged contemporary production in collaboration with stage director and lighting designer Linus Fellbom.
Financial Times 19 March 2019 (4 out of 5 stars) “As a singer, Hannigan has always stood out from the crowd, unable to see a musical boundary without wanting to cross it. “ “The dazzling soprano took up the baton for an evening that was out of the ordinary” Bachtrack 18 March 2019 (4 out of 5 stars) “The power …
Vienna: Fin de siècle is the winner of the 2019 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 Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of …
Barbara Hannigan has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2020, regarded as Denmark’s highest classical musical honor.
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, 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 …
Barbara Hannigan is Bérénice in the Opéra national de Paris world premiere by Michael Jarrell.
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 …
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.
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 …