Barbara Hannigan to conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Barbara Hannigan makes her first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra on 1, 2 and 4 December. She will be conducting a very personal programme centering on love and loss.  

Hannigan's programma with the Concertgebouw Orchestra has two versions. The concert on Thursday, 1 December is a compact, intimate Late Night programme without interval, in which the audience will be seated on cushions on the floor of the Concertgebouw's Main Hall. The orchestra will perform Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Claude Vivier's Lonely Child featuring Aphrodite Patoulidou. The Greek soprano will also be performing a Greek lullaby, accompanying herself on the nyckelharpa, a traditional Swedish string instrument. Creative partner of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Pierre Audi and Jean Kalman will join forces to create a total experience fitting the music. 

 

On Friday 2 and Sunday 4 December the Strauss and Vivier works will be part of a more regular concert with interval, which will also feature Samuel Barber's Mutations from Bach and Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with soloist Vilde Frang. The programme is a musical voyage of ‘memory, loss, solitude, youthful innocence and coming of age’, in Hannigan’s own words.   

 

The Friday 2 December concert is preceded by an introduction by Patrick van Deurzen in the Choir Hall at 7.15 p.m. After the concert there will be a Meet the Artists in the Mirror Hall. 

 

This programme is made possible with financial support from Ammodo. 

 

Barbara Hannigan is known and admired worldwide as a soprano of extraordinary range and versatility. In recent years whe manifests herself more and more as a very distinctive conductor and programmer.