Hannah De Priest is a fearless performer of a wide range of lyric soprano repertoire. Hailed a “breakout artist” (Boston Globe) with “gleaming timbre” (Chicago Classical Review), recent credits include her debut at the Kennedy Center with Opera Lafayette, her European debut at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, and multiple productions with Boston Early Music Festival and Haymarket Opera. Next season, she makes her debut as Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Music of the Baroque conducted by Dame Jane Glover. Hannah De Priest joins WFMT to preview her upcoming performance of the title role in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Bella Voce next month. Learn more HERE.
Watch Hannah’s prize-winning performance at the International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing.
Playlist
Selections from Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
Act I “Shake the cloud from off your brow…Banish sorrow”
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
“Ah! Belinda, I am press’d”
Véronique Gens, soprano
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
“Grief increases by concealing…Fear no danger”
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Julianne Baird, soprano
Catherine Bott, soprano
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Act II “Wayward sisters…In our deep-vaulted cell”
Felicity palmer, mezz0-soprano
Anna Dennis, soprano
Alexandra Gibson, contralto
Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
“Thanks to these lonesome vales”
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Steven Devine & Elizabeth Kenny
Act III “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain…Great minds against themselves conspire”
Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Giulia Semenzato, soprano
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
La Nuova Musica/David Bates
“Thy hand, Belinda…When I am laid in earth”
Jessye Norman, soprano
English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard
Antonio Vivaldi: Amor, hai vinto, RV 683
“In che strano e confuso…Se à me rivolge il ciglio”
Hannah De Priest, soprano
Morgan Little, cello
Jason J. Moy, harpsichord Private recording used with permission of artists with thanks to Classical Music Chicago Mary Mazurek, engineer
Ars Musica Chicago presents Music Among Friends featuring Hannah De Priest on Sunday, April 27. Learn more HERE.
