Conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan has introduced that she can be extending her present contract because the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra’s principal visitor conductor till summer time 2025.
Hannigan’s Gothenburg connections date again to 2013, when she gave her first live performance with the orchestra. That first collaboration featured the Canadian as conductor and soloist in works by Mozart, Rossini and Ligeti.
Later, for Gothenburg’s 2015-2016 season, Hannigan took up the function of artist-in-residence. Standout live shows that season included a efficiency of Alban Berg’s Lulu Suite. Then, in 2019, Hannigan was appointed the orchestra’s principal visitor conductor. Her repertoire with Gothenburg since then has included every part from Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht to Gershwin’s Woman Loopy Suite.
Hannigan and the GSO’s subsequent performances can be on 28-29 September, once they carry out Francis Poulenc’s solo opera La Voix Humaine. The manufacturing will function Hannigan within the double function of singer and conductor.
Other than her function with Gothenburg, Barbara Hannigan can also be an affiliate artist with London Symphony Orchestra, and première artiste invitée with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
‘Barbara has a novel place on the planet of music,’ says Arna Einarsdóttir, head of planning on the Gothenburg Symphony. ‘She is a supply of nice inspiration for each audiences and orchestras, at all times exploring new methods of performing classical music. There appear to be no limits to her creativity and superb artistry.’
‘It has been an exquisite expertise these previous years to work with the Gothenburg Symphony,’ says Hannigan. ‘Now we have so many attention-grabbing initiatives and are persevering with to discover new prospects. I’m additionally excited to develop cross-disciplinary concepts which ought to attain new audiences.
‘I would love our GSO live shows to encourage, problem, and entertain our audiences; to offer them pause for reflection; and to make them interested in what we’ll do subsequent!’
