Barbara Hannigan : a late night concert.
There are pianists who also conduct, and concertmasters who lead their orchestra from the violin chair. But a star soprano who coordinates a large instrumental ensemble while at the same time negotiating the trickiest coloratura singing is something entirely new. That is, until Barbara Hannigan came...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Italian English |
| Language Notes: | Vocal works sung in Italian and English. |
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Berlin, Berlin State :
C Major Entertainment,
2015.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | There are pianists who also conduct, and concertmasters who lead their orchestra from the violin chair. But a star soprano who coordinates a large instrumental ensemble while at the same time negotiating the trickiest coloratura singing is something entirely new. That is, until Barbara Hannigan came along to reveal this remarkable skill. "It's like walking on virgin snow," says the Canadian "artiste étoile" who teamed up at Lucerne Festival in Summer with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Next to conducting works by Fauré, Mozart and Rossini she performed onstage, decked out in a daring S & M-style leather bodice, Ligeti's "Mysteries of the Macabre." |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 26, 2016). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (72 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 01:11:46 |