Ann Hallenberg

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Ann Hallenberg

Ann Hallenberg (born March 17, 1967 in Västerås ) is a Swedish opera and concert singer with a mezzo-soprano voice .

biography

She studied in Stockholm at the National College of Operatic Art with Kerstin Meyer and Erik Sædén. After graduating in 1994 she completed her education with Joy Mammen in London .

Her soft, agile and coloratura mezzo-soprano has given Ann Hallenberg a successful career, especially in the field of baroque opera . She is particularly well known as a Handel interpreter and, in addition to appearances on the opera stage and in the concert hall, has made numerous recordings of rare repertoire.

She had a kind of international breakthrough when she stepped in for Cecilia Bartoli at short notice and with great success as Piacere in Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Zurich in February 2003 . Further roles by Georg Friedrich Handel from Hallenberg's repertoire are Cornelia in Giulio Cesare , Teodata in Flavio , Irene in Tamerlano , the title role in Siroe , Tauride in Arianna , the title role in Ariodante , Tirinto in Imeneo , Arsamene in Serse , Dejanira in Hercules , Cyrus in Belshazzar and Storgé in Jephtha .

She has also sung in several works by Antonio Vivaldi , including the title role in the oratorio Juditha triumphans , Servilia in Tito Manlio , Ramiro in Motezuma , Bradamante in Orlando furioso and Licori in La Fida Ninfa .

Her operatic repertoire also includes Penelope in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria , Aristeo in Sartorio's Orfeo , Aristeo in Rossi's Orfeo , Deianira in Cavalli's Ercole Amante , Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice , the title role in Gluck's Aristeo , the title role in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Ascanio in Alba , Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito ; also Isabella in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri , Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia , Charlotte in Werther , the title role in Carmen , Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Clarice in The Love For Three Oranges .

Her sacred repertoire includes Bach's Christmas Oratorio , Pergolesi's Stabat Mater as well as Mozart's C minor Mass and Requiem .

Ann Hallenberg has also sung important works of the romantic concert repertoire, such as the love songs waltzes by Johannes Brahms , the Kindertotenlieder by Gustav Mahler and Ernest Chausson's Poême de l'amour et de la mer , as well as in Mahler's Symphony No. 3.

The conductors Ann Hallenberg has worked with include Fabio Biondi , Ivor Bolton , Frans Brüggen , William Christie , Marcus Creed , Alan Curtis , Ottavio Dantone , John Eliot Gardiner , Roy Goodman , Emmanuelle Haïm , Philippe Herreweghe , Michael Hofstetter , Paul McCreesh , Marc Minkowski , Riccardo Muti , Arnold Östman , Christophe Rousset , Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Stephen Stubbs .

Awards and honors

CD recordings (selection)

(in each case chronologically according to the date of admission)

Arias programs

Complete opera recordings

  • Francesco Maria Veracini : Adriano in Siria , with Romina Basso, Sonia Prina, Roberta Invernizzi and others, Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi (recording from the Resonanzen 2014 in the Wiener Konzerthaus, FB)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel : Giove in Argo , with Karina Gauvin, Vito Priante a. a., Il Complesso Barrocco, Alan Curtis. Virgin Classics (EMI), 2013
  • Antonio Vivaldi : Catone in Utica , with Sonia Prina, Romina Basso, Topi Lehtipuu a. a., Il Complesso Barrocco, Alan Curtis. Naïve Classique (Indigo), 2013
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Il Farnace , with Karina Gauvin, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Max Emanuel Cencic u. a., I Barrocchisti, Diego Fasolis . Virgin Classics, 2011
  • Georg Friedrich Händel: Ezio , with Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Vito Priante a. a., Il Complesso Barrocco, Alan Curtis. Archive production, 2008
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Tolomeo , with Karina Gauvin, Anna Bonitatibus, Romina Basso a. a., Il Complesso Barrocco, Alan Curtis. Archive production, 2008
  • Georg Friedrich Händel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno , with Nathalie Dessay, Sonia Prina a. a., Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm . Virgin Classics, 2007
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando furioso , with Marie Nicole Lemieux, Philippe Jaroussky, Lennifer Larmore, Veronica Cangemi u. a., Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi , Naïve, 2004
  • Antonio Sartorio : L'Orfeo , with Suzie Le Blanc, Rodrigo del Pozo, Harry van der Kamp u. a., Teatro Lirico, Stephen Stubbs. Vanguard Classics, 1998/1999

Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano) on the Bach Cantatas website (accessed on August 12, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Hallenberg, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Västerås