Voice Area presents: Barbara Hannigan
Award-winning Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan will present on her new initiative Momentum, a program that connects leading international artists with younger professional colleagues in support of the first substantial phase of their career. Other topics will include diversity and inclusion in classical concert programming; building stamina; and keeping a busy schedule of singing, conducting, directing, and mentoring.
Read our recent Q&A with Hannigan.
Please note: These workshops are available to staff and students at the Schulich School of Music. Zoom links will be sent by email from publicity.music to the Schulich community weekly.
Embodying music with an unparalleled dramatic sensibility, soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. Her artistic colleagues include Christoph Marthaler, Sir Simon Rattle, Sasha Waltz, Kent Nagano, Vladimir Jurowski, John Zorn, Andreas Kriegenburg, Andris Nelsons, Reinbert de Leeuw, David Zinman, Antonio Pappano, Katie Mitchell, Kirill Petrenko, and Krszysztof Warlikowski.
As a singer and conductor the Canadian musician has shown a profound commitment to the music of our time and has given the world première performances of over 85 new creations. Hannigan has collaborated extensively with composers including Boulez, Zorn, Dutilleux, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Sciarrino, Barry, Dusapin, Dean, Benjamin and Abrahamsen.
Unforgettable operatic performances at the world’s leading opera companies include: Lulu in productions by both Krszysztof Warlikowski at La Monnaie and by Christoph Marthaler at Hamburg Staatsoper; Pelléas et Mélisande in both Katie Mitchell’s staging at the 2016 Festival d’Aix-en-Province conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and in Krszysztof Warlikowski’s 2017 production at the Ruhrtriennale; and Marie in Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten at the Bayerische Staatsoper directed by Andreas Kriegenberg and conducted by Kirill Petrenko, for which she won Germany’s Faust Award. Hannigan embodied the role of Elle in Warlikowski’s production of La Voix Humaine at Opéra de Paris in 2015 and again for its reprise in April 2018. She created the role of Agnès in George Benjamin’s landmark Written on Skin, which premiered at Festival d’Aix-en-Province in 2012. Further recent operatic world première incarnations include Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at Glyndebourne Festival 2017, Isabel in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence directed by Katie Mitchell (Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Dutch National Opera, 2018), and the title role in Michael Jarrell’s Bérénice at the Paris Opera (2018).
Barbara Hannigan’s 2019/2020 season marks the beginning of her role as Principal Guest conductor at Gothenburg Symphony. She also has engagements with London Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra, and will be artist in residence at Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Hannigan will première the role of Gerda in Bayerische Staatsoper’s production of Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen and will return to the role of Lulu at Hamburgische Staatsoper.
