In 2018, Barbara Hannigan came to the Tiny Desk with a pianist and her simply gorgeous voice — silvery, buttery-smooth throughout the registers, with crystalline top notes emerging from thin air and ...

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more. Hannigan, the rare artist to have a career as a soprano and a conductor, will assume ...

How does internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning soprano Barbara Hannigan describe her performance of the notoriously thorny work of composer John Zorn? She compares it to Olympian Simone ...

Last week, the versatile and innovative singer and conductor Barbara Hannigan was named as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The Canadian-born soprano forged her ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Hannigan, the rare artist to have a career as a soprano and a conductor, will assume a full-time conducting post for the first time. By Javier C.

Barbara Hannigan is fearless in the face of new music. The Canadian soprano has sung the world premiere of over 100 new works, and last year released a recording of songs by the contemporary American ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Barbara Hannigan, the dynamic Canadian soprano who started singing professionally at 17 and later added separate — though sometimes simultaneous — responsibilities as conductor, ...

Premiering a new work of music — let alone a work of “new music” — is a bit like striking a match: The release of its potential relies entirely on the moment of execution. That is, it needs to ignite ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by John Adams’s opera “Girls of the Golden West,” a recital program by Barbara Hannigan and a collection of Elgar symphonies are among the highlights.

Jane Bua Bua covers classical music for Goings On. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. It ...

Soprano Barbara Hannigan takes the spotlight on Electric Fields, a new collaborative album inspired by the 12th-century abbess and composer Hildegard von Bingen. (Marco Borggreve) Barbara Hannigan is ...