Barbara Hannigan

Born: 1971-05-08

Barbara Hannigan is a Canadian soprano and conductor, known for her performances of contemporary opera. She studied music at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.


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Burnt Toast

as Constance
Released: 2005-10-01

An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love...

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Lulu - La Monnaie / De Munt

as Lulu
Released: 2021-11-02

Alban Berg explores the power that Eros and Thanatos, in their rawest forms, have over our...

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Maestras: The Long Journey of Women to the Podium

as Self/Conductor/Soprano
Released: 2017-03-24

When a woman steps onto the conductor's podium, she is always one of the first: the first to...

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Le Grand Macabre

as Venus / Gepopo
Released: 2011-11-19

Premiered in Stockholm in 1978, the work is based on a play by Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962)...

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Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

as Her
Released: 2018-06-01

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as...

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Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence

as Isabel
Released: 2018-05-10

Opera based on the story of Edward II and Piers Gaveston. Music by George Benjamin, libretto by...

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Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence

as Mélisande
Released: 2016-07-07

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Jarrell: Bérénice

as Bérénice
Released: 2018-09-26

Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover,...

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Music is Music/Crazy Girl Crazy

as uncredited
Released: 2017-10-13

In a poetic composition of song, narration, and images, this film follows Canadian soprano and...

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C'est presque au bout du monde

as uncredited
Released: 2015-09-15

In “C’est presque au bout du monde”, I explore a mystery which fascinates me : where do these...

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John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ Volume 10 - Bozar, Brussels

as Herself
Released: 2022-12-02

Part of a CD+DVD set released by Tzadik. Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall,...

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Taking Risks: Barbara Hannigan

as Self
Released: 2019-10-20

Barbara Hannigan is a renowned soprano and exceptionally talented artist and musician from...

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Fuoco sacro – Suche nach dem heiligen Feuer des Gesangs

as Self
Released: 2022-04-21

What drives men and women to risk their own lives to save those of others? Fuoco Sacro tells the...

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Toothpaste

as Wife
Released: 2002-07-20

A humourous "domestic opera" about an upwardly mobile couple in their mid thirties who can't...

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Written On Skin

as uncredited
Released: 2013-03-08

When Written on Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by...

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Glyndebourne: Hamlet

as Ophelia
Released: 2018-06-29

Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival...

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One

as Soprano
Released: 2011-07-26

The chamber opera One represents a new kind of music multimedia drama. Michel van der Aa's...

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I'm a Creative Animal

as uncredited
Released: 2014-05-05

The audience in the upper crust concert venue KKL at the Lucerne Festival must have felt...

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Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen

as Gerda
Released: 2022-01-14

The Snow Queen is Hans Abrahamsen's first opera, composed to a self-penned libretto, based on...

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Kulturzeit

as self
First aired: 1995-10-02

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