Barbara Hannigan

Barbara Hannigan (born 1971 in Waverley ( Nova Scotia ) ) is a Canadian soprano and conductor.

Training

Hannigan grew up in a musical family and was encouraged in her home community of music teachers: "Every household had a piano, so I just got into music and singing. " By 17, she moved to Toronto, where she studied with Mary Morrison. In 1993, she earned a Bachelor of Music at the University of Toronto, 1998 just there a Master of Music. She continued her education then continued at the Banff Centre for the Arts, at the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, as well as at the Centre d'arts Orford and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag. Her teachers included, inter alia, Meinard Kraak and Neil Semer.

As a singer

Hannigan is considered exemplary interpreter of contemporary music. Your first premiere they sang ready at age 17, their 75th in 2011 Below. :

  • Looking for my face, song cycle by Friedrich Cerha (2007)

In the years 2004 to 2007 he had taken four Handel recordings for Naxos, three of them with the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini. At the Salzburg Festival Hannigan debuted in György Ligeti's Requiem in 2004. In 2010 she sang at the Easter Festival Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre and 2013 at the Summer Festival of Alban Berg Three Fragments from Wozzeck for voice and orchestra (Op. 7) - both concerts were disputed by the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. Attention was the singer in 2009 with the soprano solo in Luca Francesconi Etymo for soprano, electronics and chamber orchestra based on texts by Charles Baudelaire, which she sang with the ensemble intercontemporain led by Susanna Mälkki in Helsinki and at the Lucerne Festival and recorded for Cairo. In 2010 she took over the title role in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol, performed with the Berlin Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez concert at the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2011 she invited Boulez to his a tour with Ensemble intercontemporain that ' Pli selon pli was dedicated for orchestra and soprano Boulez. Hannigan sang further with the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France.

Hannigan is considered Ligeti specialist and in addition to other works whose Mysteries of the Macabre repeatedly sung and - from 2011 - also directed and sung. A long-standing collaboration connects them to the British composer Gerald Barry, the one-act opera La plus forte ( starkare after Strindberg's Den) specially written for Hannigan 2007. She sang the 2005 Gabi in the world premiere of Barry's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Cecily Cardew in 2012, the European premiere of the concert version BarrysThe Importance of Being Earnest.

Europe successfully the world premiere of George Benjamin's opera Written on Skin in July 2012 was at the Festival Aix- en- Provence. It staged Katie Mitchell, it conducted by the composer. This production was finally in 2013, inter alia, also shown in London and Paris, as well - conducted by Kent Nagano - at the festivals in Vienna and Munich. Hannigan sang Agnès, the main female role, won a standing ovation and was elected to the critics' poll of the magazine world of opera for the design of this role Singer of the Year.

Similarly successful Hannigan is since 2009 in the concert hall with Henri Dutilleux's work for orchestra and voice Correspondences on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Solzhenitsyn, Prithwindra Mukherjee and Vincent van Gogh. The composer wrote specifically for Hannigan a new version of the final piece, which can also be heard in the recording for Deutsche Grammophon. She sang the soprano solo in 2009 in Bergen, Haugesund and Dortmund, 2010 at the Palais des Beaux- Arts de Bruxelles and at Liège, in 2011 with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Pablo Heras- Casado in Tokyo, and finally in 2013 in the Berlin Philharmonic, the Paris Salle Pleyel and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

2014 impressed the artist in Fausto Romitelli video opera An Index of Metals at the Theater an der Wien.

As a conductor

2010 debuted the Hannigan as a conductor at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Stravinsky's Renard. Since then she has led, among other things, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. Even as a conductor sets the artist to focus on music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Personal

Hannigan is married to the Dutch theater director Gijs de Lange and lives in Amsterdam. The pair worked together in 2006 a production of The Mikado for the National Reisopera in the Netherlands.

Awards

  • 2013 Singer of the Year, the opera world - for Benjamin's Written On Skin
  • 2013 Gramophone Award in the Category Contemporary - for Dutilleux's Correspondences
  • 2014 Victoires de la Musique Classique fr - for Dutilleux's Correspondences

Major opera productions as a singer

  • 2004 Jan van de Puttes Wet Snow ( U) - Holland Festival
  • 2005 Gabi in Gerald Barry's The Bitter Tears of Petra From Kant (U) - English National Opera, London
  • 2008-10 Elle in Pascal Dusapin Passion, in a Giuseppe Frigeni staging in Strasbourg, Rouen, Paris and Luxembourg, as well as in a 2010-12 Sasha Waltz - staged in Paris, Lille and Brussels
  • 2009-11 Gepopo in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre - Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, then the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
  • 2009 The Woman in Kris Defoorts The House of the Sleeping Beauties (U) - Bruxelles
  • 2011-13 title role in Toshio Hosokawa's Matsukaze - Bruxelles, then at the Grand Théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
  • 2012-13 Agnès in Benjamin's Written On Skin ( U) - Festival d' Aix -en- Provence, then at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, at the Vienna Festival Weeks, the Munich Opera Festival and at the Opéra -Comique in Paris
  • 2012 title role in Berg's Lulu, Bruxelles
  • 2013 Kaija Saariaho's Emilie title role - Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon
  • 2014 Marie in Zimmermann's soldiers - Bavarian State Opera in Munich

Discography (selection)

The opera productions Signor Goldoni, One, Le Grand Macabre and Written On Skin appeared as DVDs, The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Written On Skin as CDs. Other recordings:

  • Henri Dutilleux: Correspondences, conductor Esa -Pekka Salonen, German Grammophon 2012 ( first recording )
  • Harry Freedman: Spirit song. Centre Discs 2012
  • Handel: Gideon. Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini, Naxos, 2004
  • Handel: L' Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini, Naxos 2005
  • Handel: Rinaldo. Aradia Baroque Orchestra, conductor: Kevin Mallon Naxos 2006
  • Handel: Tobit. Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini, Naxos 2007
  • György Ligeti's Requiem and Apparitions, with Susan Parry, WDR Radio Choir Cologne, SWR Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble, San Francisco Polyphony, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, conducted by Peter Eötvös, Budapest Music BUAE 2012
  • Bart Visman: Sables, Oxygène poems by Saskia Macris (U), Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Ed Spanjaard; Live recording at Etcetera 2008
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