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Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Toronto where she studied with Mary Morrison. Further studies took place at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia, the Centre d’arts Orford, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in Holland where she studied with Meinard Kraak.
Her operatic roles include Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice, Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, the title role in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Emmeline in Purcell's King Arthur, Larinda in Hasse’s Larinda e Vanesio as well as the title roles in Hasse’s La Contadina and La Fantesca, Arethuze in Charpentier’s Acteon, Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo and Dalinda in Handel’s Ariodante. She sang the world premiere of operas including Louis Andriessen’s Writing to Vermeer (Saskia) with the Netherlands Opera, Jan van de Putte’s Wet Snow (Liza) with Holland’s National Reisopera, Luca Mosca’s Signor Goldoni (Despina) at La Fenice, Michel van der Aa’s solo opera One for soprano, film and electronics (toured to 12 countries), Gerald Barry’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Gabrielle) at English National Opera, and Dusapin's Passion (Lei), for the Festival of Aix-en-Provence. She will sing the world premieres of the new operas by Toshio Hosokawa (directed by Sasha Waltz) and George Benjamin (directed by Luc Bondy).
Barbara Hannigan has performed with orchestras and ensembles including the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, l’Orchestre National de France, Toronto Symphony, Paris Opera, Helsinki Philharmonic, Holland’s Radio Orchestras, Bamberger Symphoniker, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Frankfurt and Finland, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, the SWR German Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Musikfabrik, the Asko and Schoenberg Ensembles and the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, in repertoire ranging from Handel, Bach and Mozart, to Knussen, Dutilleux, Webern, Stravinsky and Ligeti. As part of Maurizio Pollini’s Progetto Pollini, she has been touring with him singing the music of Luigi Nono, most recently at La Scala.
She has worked with conductors including Reinbert de Leeuw, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Ingo Metzmacher, Peter Oundjian, Oliver Knussen, Jonathan Nott, Peter Rundel, Michael Gielen, and Peter Eotvos, and has had the privilege of working with composers including Gyorgy Ligeti, Louis Andriessen, Gerald Barry, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Oliver Knussen and Henri Dutilleux.
She has received much acclaim for her performances of the music of Gyorgy Ligeti. She has sung his Mysteries of the Macabre, a tour de force for soprano and orchestra, in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Berlin, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Vienna and Cologne. She sang Ligeti’s Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006, conducted by Peter Eotvos, and at the Salzburg Festival in 2004, with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan Nott, with upcoming performances in Paris (Salonen), Munich (Salonen), Berlin and Salzburg (Rattle). Last season she triumphed in the roles of Gepopo and Venus in Le Grand Macabre at La Monnaie in the new production by La Fura dels Baus.
Dutilleux’s Correspondances for soprano and orchestra has become a major work in her repertoire, which she has sung with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Holland’s Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, CBSO conducted by Sakari Oramo at the 2005 BBC Proms, the Helsinki Philharmonic conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen, the Orchestre National de France conducted by Kurt Masur, the Toronto Symphony conducted by Peter Oundjian, at the Palais Garnier with the Paris Opera Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen, and with the Oslo Philharmonic conducted by Jukka Pekka Saraste.
Upcoming engagements include opera productions at La Monnaie, Aix-en-Provence, Covent Garden, La Scala Milan and Barcelona Liceu, concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and the Bayerischen Rundfunk, a European tour of Pli selon pli with Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez, and the title role in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol with the Berlin Philharmonic.

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Date	Tue/28/June/2011 19:00
Venue	Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
Music Tomorrow 2011 [Performer] Pablo Heras-Casado（Conductor） Barbara Hannigan（Soprano） NHK Symphony Orchestra [Program] H.Dutilleux：Correspondances [Price] S\5,000 A\3,000 [Information] N Kyo Guide +81-3-3465-1780