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The Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg regularly appears in opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro la Fenice Venice, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, Teatro Real Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra de Bordeaux, Opéra de Monaco, Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Norwegian National Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, and Drottningholm Theatre Stockholm. She also frequently appears in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America.
Ann Hallenberg regularly works with conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Francesco Corti, Marcus Creed, Alan Curtis, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro De Marchi, Peter Dijkstra, Diego Fasolis, Patrick Fournillier, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jane Glover, Roy Goodman, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Emmanuelle Haïm, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Michael Hofstetter, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Moulds, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Daniel Reuss, Jérémie Rhorer, Christophe Rousset, Kwame Ryan, Federico Maria Sardelli, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, David Stern, Mark Tatlow, Jos van Veldhoven, Lothar Zagrosek, Alberto Zedda and Arnold Östman.
Her repertoire includes a large number of leading roles in operas by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bizet and Massenet. Equally at home on the concert platform she has built an unusually vast concert repertoire that spans music from the early 17th Century works of Monteverdi and Cavalli, via Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler, Martin and Chausson up to contemporary works of Franz Waxman and Daniel Börtz.
Engagements in the season 2009/10 included the title role in Agrippina in Venice, Madrid and Santiago de Compostela, Dido in Dido and Aeneas in Venice as well as at in Amsterdam, the title role in Ariodante in Beaune as well as in Santiago de Compostela, Storgé in Handel’s Jephta in Bordeaux, a concert with arias and duets by Handel and Vivaldi with the soprano Sandrine Piau at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, recording as well as concert of Iside in Handel’s Giove in Argo at Theater an der Wien and La Coruña, a concert with arias by Handel in Naples, and Pergolesi’s Missa Romana as well as Handel’s Dixit Dominus in Hamburg. She also recorded Selinda in Vivaldi’s Il Farnace and a solo CD with arias by Handel.
The season 2010/11 included Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Gothenburg Opera, Arsace in Rossini’s Semiramide at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Fernando in Ariosti’s La Fede nei tradimenti in Vienna, the title role in Agrippina in Halle, Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in St. Pölten, the title role in Ariodante in Moscow, concerts with arias by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti in Stavanger, Mozart’s Mass in C minor in Rome, London, Paris, Saint Denis and Dortmund, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody in Amsterdam, Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Munich, arias by Handel in Neuchatel and Zamora, arias by Porpora, Broschi, Giacomelli and Leo in Paris, Orléans, Metz and Bergen, and arias by Haydn and Scarlatti at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt.
The season 2011/12 has started with the title role in Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans in Beaune, arias by various baroque composers in Santiago de Compostela as well as in Beaune, the title role in Ariodante in Torino and Bucharest, Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in Madrid, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody in Krakow, Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Leipzig and Wroclaw, Ruggiero in Alcina in Krakow, arias by Handel in Venice, arias by Porpora, Broschi, Giacomelli and Leo in Brussels, Rome, Stockholm, Herne and Lorient, Merope in Vivaldi’s Oracolo in Messenia in Krakow, Handel’s Messiah in Stockholm and a gala concert in Paris celebrating Le Concert d'Astrée’s 10th Anniversary. In the autumn of 2011 she also recorded Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody for PHI, arias by Vivaldi for naïve as well as bel-canto arias for SONY.
January 2012
UPcoming
VIVALDI - Oracolo in Messenia / Merope - Vienna, Caen
Fabio Biondi, conductor
GRAUN - Montezuma / Narvès - Berlin
Michael Hofstetter, conductor
Monteverdi - L’Incoronazione di Poppea / Ottavia - Lille, Dijon
Emmanuelle Haïm, conductor
Handel - Arias - Cologne
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Handel - Agrippina / Title role - Paris, Brussels, Beaune
Eduardo López Banzo, conductor
Rossini - Matilde di Shabran / Eduardo - Pesaro
Michele Mariotti, conductor
Grieg - Peer Gynt / Anitra - Paris
Paavo Järvi, conductor
Handel - Agrippina / Title role - Antwerp
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Grieg - Peer Gynt / Anitra - London
Marc Minkowski, conductor
Mozart - Davide Penitente / Soprano 2 - Berlin
Louis Langrée, conductor
Handel - Hercules / Dejanira - Moscow
Christopher Moulds, conductor
Handel - Arianna in Creta / Teseo - Tour + recording
Alan Curtis, conductor
Pergolesi - Stabat Mater + Ferrandini - Il Pianto di Maria - Amsterdam, Krakow
Christophe Rousset, conductor
Bach - St Matthew Passion - Rome
Antonio Pappano, conductor
Handel - Imeneo / Tirinto - Halle
Fabio Biondi, conductor
Mendelssohn - Elias - Brussels, Dortmund, Baden-Baden
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor
Veracini - Adriano / Farnaspe - Vienna, Krakow
Fabio Biondi, conductor
Handel - Tamerlano / Irene - Brussels
Christophe Rousset, conductor
January 2012
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