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Barbara Hannigan is Canadian. She studied music with Mary
Morrison at the University of Toronto and continued her education at the
Banff Centre for the Arts, the Steans Institute for Young Artists in Ravinia,
the Centre d’arts in Orford and, finally, at the Royal Conservatory in
The Hague (with Meinard Kraak).
She appeared at the Netherlands Opera in 1999 in Louis Andriessen’s
Writing to Vermeer as Saskia de Vries, and it was in this role that she was
then heard at the Adelaide Festival, at New York’s Lincoln Center, and
the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Her repertoire includes roles in works
by Hasse (Larinda in Larinda
e Vanesio, the title roles in La Cantadina and La Fantesca), Handel (Armida
in Rinaldo, Dalinda in Ariodante), Charpentier (Arethuze in Actéon); Mozart
(Bastienne, Despina); and Gluck (Amor in Orfeo ed Euridice). She also scored
successes in the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen,
as Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, as Lisa in Wet Snow by Jan
van de Putte (world premiere at the National Reisopera in Holland), Anne
Truelove in Stravinsky’s
The Rake’s Progress (Switzerland) as well as in works by Ligeti:
Mysteries of the Macabre, Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures (Proms debut,
2003), and Requiem (with Bamberger Symphoniker under Jonathan Nott). Her
recent appearances in the concert repertoire also include Oliver
Knussen’s Higgelty Piggelty Pop (with Cleveland Orchestra) and Songs
and a Sea Interlude (with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra), and Bach’s
‘Hunt’ and ‘Coffee’ Cantatas (with Combattimento
Consort of Amsterdam).
In January 2003 Barbara Hannigan appeared in the premiere of Michel van der
Aa’s one-person opera One at the Berlin Festival, the Festival
d’Automne in Paris, in Zagreb, and St. Petersburg. Later that year she
toured Russia as a soloist of the Schönberg Ensemble under Reinbert de
Leeuw. She has also collaborated with such prominent conductors as Esa-Pekka
Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Gielen, Peter Eötvös,
Dennis Russell Davies and Stuart Bedford.
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