Embodying music with an unparalleled dramatic sensibility, soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. Her much-anticipated Severance conducting debut features a fascinating juxtaposition of works by Haydn, Ligeti – marking the centenary of the composer’s birth – and Vivier. The program concludes with Richard Strauss’s exploration of the most universal of questions: what lies waiting ahead for all of us?
Hannigan Conducts Strauss

Barbara Hannigan (Photo: Marco Borggreve)
Playlist
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Mourning’
Claude Vivier: Lonely Child
György Ligeti: Lontano for Orchestra
Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration, Op 24