Barbara Hannigan
@HanniganBarbara
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Musician. Epicure. Traveller. 📀 Messiaen - out May 24 @alpha_classics • Spoleto Festival, July 7,10,14
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It is with heavy heart that the music world has received the news of soprano Jodie Devos' death to cancer, at the age of 35. She was a beautiful artist, vibrant and radiant of sound and presence, & I send my deepest condolences to her colleagues, her friends and to her family.
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I am thrilled to announce this news: Barbara Hannigan appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra
@IcelandSymphony
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Very exciting news to announce today!
Barbara Hannigan appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Gothenburg Symphony
photo: Marco Borggreve
@GbgSymfoniker
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I am thrilled to be bringing one of my party pieces, the fantastic “Girl Crazy Suite" by Gershwin, arranged by Bill Elliott Music, to Musikkollegium Winterthur, starting the year on a high note!
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The music world has lost two great musicians in
#MaurizioPollini
&
#PeterE
ötvös. I am eternally grateful to Maurizio Pollini for introducing me and so many others to the music of Luigi Nono, and to Peter Eötvös for the wonderful experiences of performing together over the years…
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We did it!!!! Crazy Girl Crazy won the Grammy!!! Bravi tutti and so much love to all involved!
#Grammy2018
for
#CrazyGirlCrazy
, Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
@ludwiglive
@alpha_classics
@HarrisonParrott
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I was so happy to see that “The Berliner Philharmoniker perform Unsuk Chin” has recently been released!
In 2015, I performed Chin’s “Le silence des Sirènes,” in which I play a Siren 🧜🏻♀️ (a kind of Lorelei), who seems to have gone a bit mad, with
@BerlinPhil
& Sir Simon Rattle.
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I am thrilled to accept this appointment, developing and performing beautiful and fascinating programmes with my colleagues at the LSO. This collaboration gives me a lot of energy and inspiration!
🔥🔥🔥
It's a great pleasure to announce that soprano and conductor
@HanniganBarbara
has been appointed as LSO Associate Artist for three years.
Read our full statement here:
Can't wait to get stuck in!
📸 Marco Borggreve
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Indeed I have been known to think, but who knew that thinking was cover story news?
En effet, j'ai été connu pour penser, mais qui aurait cru que penser faisait la Une des journaux?
@Diapasonmag
—
#whatweretheythinking
#descartesgonebad
#triplethreat
#conductor
#soprano
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I am incredibly honoured to receive the 2020
@SonningMusic
Prize. As I said in my acceptance speech, I’ll be donating the financial part of the award to Equilibrium Young Artists and Momentum: our future, now to support the next generation of young artists.
📸: A. Schlichtkrull
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I would deeply like to dedicate tonight’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Haydn’s Symphony No. 44 “Trauer” to the victims of this horrible attack in Ukraine and to those who are so courageously defending their families and their country.
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Announced today! Barbara has been awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2020, regarded as Denmark’s highest classical musical honor.
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Have you heard of Schönberg’s “String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor with soprano”?
I will be singing this piece on January 7th with the members of the Musikkollegium Winterthur.
A few tickets are available via the link below!
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Have you heard of Hildegard von Bingen?
She is the inspiration behind the show “Electric Fields” - a unique concert experience performed by me and pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque, with David Chalmin on live electronics.
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So happy, relieved, grateful, exhilarated that our La Voix Humaine premiere happened and that it was recorded. Huge thanks to my team,
@radiofrance
&
@104paris
. It exists and I can't wait for the next performances! Watching from my hotel room en route to Munich, it felt unreal!
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Delving into the sonic world of Olivier Messiaen’s vocal music continues to be a fulfilling journey. Recording the album MESSIAEN with pianist Bertrand Chamayou was an absolute joy.
🎶 Listen here:
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On the cover of the spring edition of the Royal Opera House mag “Barbara Hannigan: A Visionary Musician”
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Reinbert de Leeuw, Sept 8, 1938 - Feb 14, 2020 always and forever in my heart.
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I feel it is very important to encourage and support the next generation of artists…if you are currently studying or embarking on a career, here are three pieces of advice I hope helps you on your journey! ❤️
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Time to celebrate! The wonderful conductor
#BarAvni
has won the 1st prize of the International
@LaMaestraParis
! She also won 4 of the 5 other available prizes, including (so importantly!) the prize from the musicians of the Paris Mozart Orchestra…
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We’re excited to reveal the cover of “Vienna, Fin de Siècle”, an album featuring composers who left their mark on the turn of the twentieth century: Wolf, Schönberg, Webern, Zemlinsky, A. Mahler and Berg.
Look out for the
@alpha_classics
release in September!
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Learning John Zorn’s “Jumalattaret” was an epic journey that brought me to my limits mentally and musically.
This journey was captured by Mathieu Amalric in the film “Zorn III,” part of three of his films on the American composer and musician John Zorn.
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“Electric Fields,” inspired by the life & music of Hildegard von Bingen, in upcoming performances at:
@MupaBudapest
, April 10
Zurich Tonhalle, April 13 & 15”4
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Singing and conducting Barber's Knoxville with the
@londonsymphony
. Thank you to the extraordinary players of this orchestra for their heart & sound.
Shout out to
@maxinekwokvln
from the 1st violins, with gratitude for lending me the gorgeous clothing!
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Olivier Messiaen was fascinated and inspired by birdsong. 🪶He spent hours in the forest and in the countryside, notating their songs and often quoting them in compositions. Oiseaux Exotiques, for example, was a work which was using many direct birdsong quotes…
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mark your calendars! 26 May, 8:30pmCET, livestream from
#London
@TheRoyalOpera
on
@medicitv
: George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence
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Just been released from quarantine, can rehearse w/ Simon Rattle &
@londonsymphony
. I’ve absolutely loved learning both the Barber and Varese, new works I've brought into my repertoire especially for this concert, can't wait to sing them for the 1st time!
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Our performance of Lulu on November 12 was filmed LIVE at
@LaMonnaieDeMunt
, and the video and sound are now mixed and online for 6 weeks only!
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Un de mes moments favoris de "La Voix Humaine", lorsqu'Elle suggère que le téléphone pourrait devenir une arme dangereuse... et j'ai alors un geste fou pour l'illustrer...!!!
LA VOIX HUMAINE - 21 & 22 février
@OSMconcerts
à Montréal
Tickets:
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Thank you to our audiences around the world, and to all my wonderful colleagues that made 2023 such a special year!
Wishing you a happy and peaceful 2024.
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Two weeks to go until the release of Infinite Voyage on September 8 and the second single is out today: enjoy Chausson’s “Chanson perpétuelle“ with the fantastic
@emersonstringquartet
and
@bertrandchamayouofficial
on the streaming service of your choice!
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Let’s take a closer look at Messiaen’s “Antienne du Silence,” the first single (out now) from our album MESSIAEN - out May 24th on
@alpha_classics
:
Pianist:
@ChamayouB
Recording Engineer: Guido Tichelman
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Our final performance of Poulenc's La Voix Humaine is tonight! What a special experience to reconnect with this extraordinary production by Krzysztof Warlikowski and his team, and to have these weeks in Naples with the orchestra and team of
@teatrosancarlo
!
🎥:
@operadeparis
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Je suis vraiment ravie que l’Orchestre
@PhilharRF
m’ait invitée à poursuivre nos aventures musicales! Après quatre ans à faire de la musique avec ces merveilleux musiciens, l’occasion nous ait donné d’approfondir notre relation et notre amitié.
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#GramoAwards
Thank you so much to the
@GramophoneMag
for recognizing me as Artist of the Year 2022.
Thank you to my team,
@alpha_classics
& to all the teams I am working with! And special thanks to
@ChamayouB
for his beautiful playing last night & his kind speech!
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Have you heard of Andante for Strings and Orchestra by Ruth Crawford Seeger?
I will be conducting this piece December 14th & 15th with the
@Munich_Phil
.
A few tickets are available here:
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Getting a head start with
@ChamayouB
for our new Messiaen program for
@festival_aix
, July 8! So here’s a bit of Messiaen for your Friday evening!
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I am looking forward to bringing Poulenc’s opera “La Voix Humaine” in our unique production, along with Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, to the
@IcelandSymphony
at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik on April 5.
More information and tickets
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MESSIAEN - out May 24th…this Friday!
On our album, MESSIAEN, Bertrand Chamayou and I explore two of Messiaen’s song cycles, “Poèmes pour Mi” and “Chants de Terre et de Ciel.”
You can listen to our first single, or pre-order the album now:
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting Momentum in 2021!
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Closing night….my heart is breaking: Lulu, mein Engel…ich bin dir nah, bleibe dir nah, für Ewigkeit.
—
#ilovelulu
#luluat50
#barbarahannigan
#albanberg
@LaMonnaieDeMunt
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Join us for “Electric Fields” at
@FestivalPaques
in Aix-en-Provence tonight! Same-Day-Tickets are available for 15€.
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Our new album, MESSIAEN, is out today!
This recording is the result of several precious partnerships. First of all, with
@ChamayouB
on piano, a musical soul with whom I resonate in my bones. Recording these two major song cycles of Messiaen with Bertrand is a dream come true.
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Happy belated birthday to one of my favorite gentlemen!
This is the ornamented repeat of the 1st section of the 2nd mvmt of
#Haydn
’s Symphony 26 (Lamentatione), played exquisitely here by
@LPOrchestra
concertmaster Ben Gilmore, & so sensitively accompanied by his colleagues.
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Tonight at 8pm CET on
@francemusique
: Our January 6 performance of La Voix Humaine by Francis Poulenc and the Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss with the fantastic
@PhilharRF
. Watch it here!
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Thank you
@londonsymphony
!
Wishing a very happy birthday to our Associate Artist Barbara Hannigan today🎂
Here she is conducting
#Haydn
's Symphony No 90 with us at the beginning 2022, we can't wait to have her back with us in 2025!✨
@HanniganBarbara
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After a week of rehearsals, and after this morning's dress rehearsal with
@PhilharRF
and
@ChoeurRF
, a very small number of integral musicians from the orchestra announced their intention to strike tonight, leaving us without the possibility to replace them or to give our concert.
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I treasure the musical relationships that I have formed over the course of my career - including my decade-long collaboration with the Göteborgs Symfoniker, where I am Principal Guest Conductor.
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Catch us and the
@londonsymphony
tonight a 7pm GMT / 8pm CET at the
@barbicancentre
and via livestream on Takt1 - Copland, Haydn, Offenbach / Rosenthal and Weill / Elliott on the menu!
—
#barbarahannigan
#fleurbarron
#youkali
#londonsymphony
#classicalmusic
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with members of the
@BerlinPhil
last Saturday in the
#DigitalConcertHall
at the
#ThankyouSirSimon
'Late Night' concert
more photo impressions of the evening:
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Très honorée d’avoir été distinguée parmi les 100 Femmes de Culture de l’année 2022!
––
#barbarahannigan
#100femmesdeculture
#femmesdeculture
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In Copenhagen this Saturday, August 19 at 5pm: very much looking forward to revisiting John Zorn’s “Jumalattaret” together with my dear colleague Stephen Gosling at
@Tivoli
! Tickets are available here:
—
#barbarahannigan
#copenhagen
#tivoligardens
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My upcoming season is now up on - very much looking forward to it!
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Thrilled to celebrate John Zorn’s 70th birthday year in his hometown of New York City tonight!
Here are a few photos from past performances, ahead of our performance at
@MillerTheatre
, where we will present four Zorn pieces for their New York premiere.
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As Principal Guest Conductor of
@GbgSymfoniker
, it is always a great pleasure to spend several weeks of my year here with the orchestra and audience. This week we have an illuminating orchestral program of classical & neo-classical gems.
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A few phrases from our rehearsals of the Schoenberg String Quartet No 2 in Paris at
@FondationLV
, last Saturday…merci, Paris, for such a special evening! ✨
We are looking forward to our next concert on the 10th in Milan at
@ConservatorioMI
!
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Still on a high after last night’s performance of Strauss “Metamorphosen” and Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine” with
@OSMconcerts
. Such a joy to make music with this orchestra! Can’t wait for tonight’s performance!
🎟️:
📸: Antoine Saito
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MESSIAEN - Out May 24th on
@alpha_classics
Together with pianist
@ChamayouB
, I am thrilled to announce the May release of our album MESSIAEN, presenting his two major song cycles from the 1930’s.
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Have you heard of Olivier Messiaen?
Our latest album (out May 24th!), MESSIAEN, features two major song cycles by him, as well as the lesser known work, “La morte du nombre.” Messiaen is also featured in our upcoming recitals, as
@ChamayouB
& I are performing his cycle…
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Wonderful reviews coming in for the world premiere of George Benjamin's
#LessonsinLoveandViolence
at
@TheRoyalOpera
👉
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Working for the first time with Krysztof Warlikowski in 2012, on Lulu, changed my life. We have since made 5 productions together, and even with this "remount" of Lulu, it is a complete (re)creation coming from the centre of our artistic possibilities today. (1/2)
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A joyful and magical experience to perform our Messiaen-Scriabin-Zorn recital last night at the
@boulezsaal
in
#Berlin
for a full house. I am so honoured to share the stage with
@ChamayouB
and excited for our future performances!
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The cats are all very happy with their new headshots, and we are all enjoying the beautiful spring weather here in Finistère. Spot is excited to be one of the few feline CEC’s (Chief Executive Cats) in Bretagne, as her photo so clearly shows.
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Today in Stockholm, Barbara received the Rolf Schock Prize for Musical Arts.
At the ceremony she announced the entire prize money will be given to her mentor initiative, Equilibrium Young Artists.
@EQYoungArtists
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I am thrilled to conduct the
@cleveorch
this week!
November 9,10,11
Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano
HAYDN: Symphony No. 44 “Trauer”
VIVIER: Lonely Child*
LIGETI: Lontano
STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration
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The
@operadeparis
production of La Voix humaine / Bluebeard’s Castle directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski has won best Video Performance from the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA)!
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Our Metamorphosen & La Voix Humaine (starts at 32:30 min) with the fantastic
@PhilharRF
is still available to watch on
@francemusique
’s YouTube channel:
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Rehearsals with
@herascasado
& the
@philharrf
at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, as we prepare for the world premiere of “Love and Fury” by SCIARRINO…with the composer himself overseeing our progress!
Live on
@francemusique
:
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Today, we are happy to offer you some inside information about Messiaen’s mystical work, “La mort du Nombre”, the final track on our recently released album, “MESSIAEN.”
🎶 Listen here:
@alpha_classics
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Reviews from
@londonsymphony
last Sunday: “The dazzling soprano took up the baton for an evening that was out of the ordinary”
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Special memories from my last weeks in Naples performing
@TeatroSanCarlo
. Special mentions to my onstage parter Giuseppe Ciccarelli and levitation technician Marc Bizet for lifting me UP, my wonderful manager TugceTez,
@GayOdin
for the amazing salted pistachio ice cream…
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Tonight and tomorrow, I am looking forward to bringing this heavenly program to our audience in
#Copenhagen
, and our audience listening live on P2 Radio (live Thursday, starting at 19:20, link below)!
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Have you heard of “Music for the Theatre,” by Aaron Copland?
It is the opening piece on our program in Rome, in which every work has a theatrical aspect. I can't wait to join my colleagues of the wonderful
@santa_cecilia
for concerts on April 18th, 19th and 20th.
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What would we have asked Olivier
#Messiaen
?
I find with each composer, its always a different way of interacting.
@ChamayouB
& I answered this question after a practice session…with the recent release of our album “MESSIAEN,” also Bertrand’s solo album of his “Vingt Regards”
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Enjoying a few days at home in magical FInistère, with much-needed cat cuddles and fresh air!
#labellebretagne
#finistere
#catsofinstagram
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Tomorrow evening on
@londonsymphony
's streaming site Always Playing, a concert we gave in Jan 2015 in which I was soloist in two important works of the 20th century.
@SirSimonRattle
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Viewed more than half a million times! Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with the
@londonsymphony
& Simon Rattle >> Now out on
#DVD
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So happy to be working with the
@Munich_Phil
again and these wonderful
@EQYoungArtists
soloists, and having a spirited time with music by Stravinsky and Copland from the 1920s!
We of course all tested negatively, so we’re allowed to sing without masks.
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“Chanson perpétuelle” is featured on “Infinite Voyage,” my latest recording with
@EmersonQuartet
on
@alpha_classics
.
#Bertrandchamayou
makes a special guest appearance for this track, featuring the poetry Charles Cros set to music by Chausson.
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Have you heard of “Love and Fury” by Sciarrino?
I will be singing the world premiere of this piece on Dec 1st in Paris,
@Maisondelaradio
, with
@PhilharRF
, conducted by
@herascasado
.
broadcast at 20:00 on
@FranceMusique
:
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So looking forward to performing John Zorn‘s music and bringing it to the
@KunstFestSpiele
Herrenhausen this coming weekend for two concerts with my colleagues of the JACK Quartet and virtuoso pianist Stephen Gosling! Tickets here:
––
📸: De Singel Antwerp
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Your 15 seconds of calm today, brought to you by
#Messiaen
. 🌿
Listen to the full track, Bail avec Mi (Pour ma femme) on our latest album, “MESSIAEN”:
Pianist:
@ChamayouB
Recording Engineer: Guido Tichelman
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How it all started! Throwback to our LULU 2012 at
@LaMonnaieDeMunt
, my first (and life-changing!) collaboration with Warlikowski. Stay tuned for the 2021 trailer, and come see the show live in Brussels from Nov 2-18!
––
#barbarahannigan
#lulu
#thisis50
#albanberg
#onpoint
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Have you heard of Zosha Di Castri’s “In the Half-Light”?
I will be singing this piece with the
@OSMconcerts
, conducted by
@rafaelpayare
on February 28th and 29th in Montreal.
🎟️:
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Wonderful to (re)create the mystical production Electric Fields, inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, with this extraordinary team of colleagues, and to welcome light designer Bernd Purkrabek the show! Two more performances Saturday 13th, and Sunday 14th at
@tonhalle
in Zürich!
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Barbara Hannigan dans Bérénice : « Ce n’est pas un premier amour, c'est un amour pour toute la vie »
@francemusique
@operadeparis
29 Sept; 02, 05, 08, 10, 17 October 2018
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Livestream from the
@JuilliardSchool
in less than 3 hours!
Join us TONIGHT at 7:30pm ET as
@HanniganBarbara
leads the Juilliard Orchestra in music by Haydn and Stravinsky. The program is free to watch at .
#Juilliard
#JuilliardMusic
Photo by Marco Borggreve
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Crazy Girl Crazy, winner of the 2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal album!
@ludwiglive
Orchestra
@alpha_classics
@RecordingAcad
#Grammy2018
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Have you heard of “Lonely Child” by Claude Vivier?
I will be conducting this piece with The
@CleveOrchestra
, on November 9th and 11th.
@EQYoungArtists
alumna Aphrodite Patoulidou is the soprano soloist.
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So much looking forward to continuing the journey of La Voix Humaine, this fall in Rotterdam, Wroclaw and Gothenburg. Always changing, always finding new angles in this fabulous text by Cocteau and score by Poulenc!
First one this Friday in Rotterdam:
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Who was Mi?
One of the two major song cycles that
@ChamayouB
and I recorded for our latest album, ‘Messiaen,’ is “Poèmes pour Mi.” Composed in 1936-37, Messiaen wrote both the text & the music for this nine movement masterpiece. Let’s find out who inspired this work!
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* Just announced! *
Barbara to make her US debut as a conductor in 2019!
Read about it here>
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