Barbara Hannigan

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Barbara Hannigan (born May 8, 1971 in Waverley , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian soprano and conductor .

education

Hannigan grew up in a musical family and was promoted by music teachers in her home community: "Every household had a piano, so I just got into music and singing." (“Every household had a piano, that's why I was passionate about music and singing.”) When she was 17 she went to Toronto, where she studied with Mary Morrison . In 1993 she obtained a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto , and in 1998 a Master of Music there . She continued her education at the Banff Center for the Arts , the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival , the Center d'arts Orford and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag . Her teachers included u. a. Meinard Kraak and Neil Semer .

singer

Hannigan is considered an exemplary interpreter of contemporary music. She sang her first performance at the age of 17, her 75th in 2011. Among them were

Between 2004 and 2007 he made four Handel recordings for Naxos , three of them with the Frankfurter Barockorchester under Joachim Carlos Martini . Hannigan made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2004 in György Ligeti's Requiem . In 2010 she sang at the Ligeti's Easter Festival Mysteries of the Macabre and in 2013 at the Summer Festival Alban Berg's Drei Bruchteile for voice and orchestra from Wozzeck (op. 7) - both concerts were performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle . The singer attracted attention in 2009 with the soprano solo in Luca Francesconi's Etymo for soprano, electronics and chamber orchestra based on texts by Charles Baudelaire, which she sang with the Ensemble intercontemporain under the direction of Susanna Mälkki in Helsinki and at the Lucerne Festival and recorded for Kairos . In 2010 she took on the title role in Stravinsky's Le rossignol , performed in concert at the Berlin Philharmonic with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Pierre Boulez . In 2011, Boulez invited her on his tour with the Ensemble intercontemporain , which was dedicated to his Pli selon pli for orchestra and soprano. Hannigan has also sung with the London Symphony Orchestra , the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra and the Orchester National de France .

Hannigan is regarded as a Ligeti specialist and, in addition to other works, has sung his Mysteries of the Macabre several times and - from 2011 - simultaneously conducted and sung. She has worked for many years with the Irish composer Gerald Barry , who wrote the one-act opera La plus forte (based on Strindberg's Den starkare ) especially for her in 2007 . In 2005 she sang Gabi in the world premiere of Barry's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and in 2012 she sang Cecily Cardew in the European concert premiere of Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest .

The premiere of George Benjamin's opera Written on Skin in July 2012 at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , staged by Katie Mitchell and conducted by the composer, was successful across Europe . This production was finally shown in 2013 in London and Paris and - conducted by Kent Nagano - at the festivals in Vienna and Munich . Hannigan, who sang the leading female role Agnès, received a standing ovation and was named Singer of the Year in Opernwelt magazine's critics' poll for this role .

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

In 2014 the artist impressed in Fausto Romitelli's video opera An Index of Metals at the Theater an der Wien and embodied Marie in Zimmermann's The Soldiers at the Bavarian State Opera - “with total artistic and vocal devotion, the range of her timbre is breathtaking. Without being in the foreground, it forms the scenic and musical fixed point of the evening. "

In 2017 she sang the role of Ophelia in Brett Dean's opera Hamlet at the premiere of the Glyndebourne Festival .

Conductor

In 2010 Hannigan made her debut as a conductor at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with Stravinsky's Renard . Since then she has directed 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 and the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon . As a conductor, the artist also focuses on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries .

Personal

Hannigan was married to the Dutch theater director Gijs de Lange and lived in Amsterdam . In 2006, the couple worked together on a production of The Mikado for the National Rice Opera in the Netherlands. She is currently in a relationship with the actor Mathieu Amalric and lives in France.

Awards

Major opera productions as a singer

Discography (selection)

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

Web links

Commons : Barbara Hannigan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

proof

  1. ↑ Ivan Hewett: Barbara Hannigan: 'You must go all the way' . In: Telegraph , September 25, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2014. 
  2. ↑ The Spellbinding Ms. Hannigan. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Cynthia Macdonald: Barbara Hannigan . In: UofT Magazine , Summer 2004. Retrieved March 4, 2014. 
  4. ↑ Shirley Apthorp: In the premiere league . In: Financial Times , September 23, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Maja Trochimczyk: “ Writing to Vermeer : A View of a 'Filmic' Opera” (Chapter 12). In: Maja Trochimczyk (Ed.): The Music of Louis Andriessen. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), New York City, ISBN 0-8153-3789-2 , p. 259.
  6. ↑ Bernard Holland: The Chaos Outside Vermeer's Quiet Rooms . In: New York Times , July 13, 2000, accessed March 2, 2014
  7. ↑ Peter Wells: Review of Gideon's recording (Naxos 8.557312-13) , MusicWeb International review, August 4, 2004
  8. ^ Robert Levine: Review of the recording by Rinaldo (Naxos 8.660165-67) , ClassicsToday.com
  9. ^ Raymond Tuttle: Review of the recording by Tobit (Naxos 8.570113-14) , Classical.net, 2007
  10. ^ Steve Smith: Classical Recordings: Of Minimalism, Avant-Garde and Beethoven's Sonatas . In: New York Times , June 29, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2014. 
  11. ↑ Shirley Apthorp: In the premiere league . In: Financial Times , September 23, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2014. 
  12. ↑ Gerald Barry: The Performer's Perspective. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Tom Service: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Coliseum, London) . In: The Guardian , September 16, 2005. Retrieved March 2, 2014. 
  14. ↑ Andrew Clements, The Importance of Being Earnest - review (Barbican, London) . In: The Guardian , April 27, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2014. 
  15. ↑ Andrew Clements: Written on Skin - review (Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) . In: The Guardian , July 8, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2014. 
  16. ↑ A radical rejuvenation treatment for the ears . In: Kurier , January 31, 2014, accessed March 2, 2014
  17. ↑ Juan Martin Koch: The potential for disturbance of a classic: Kirill Petrenko and Andreas Kriegenburg triumph with Bernd Alois Zimmermann's “Die soldiers” at the Bavarian State Opera , Neue Musikzeitung (online), May 26, 2014
  18. ↑ Gina Thomas: "Hamlet" in Glyndebourne: Shakespeare, freshly squeezed, without seeds. Review of the world premiere production. In: FAZ , June 15, 2017, accessed on October 23, 2017.
  19. ↑ 28 minutes - (February 21, 2019). Retrieved March 31, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Hannigan, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soprano and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Waverley , Nova Scotia , Canada