Barbara Hannigan

Classical Music Review: “An American Dream?”

July 31, 2026
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Soprano-conductor Barbara Hannigan’s semiquincentennial album reframes familiar American classics through a lens of wistfulness, insight, and quiet defiance.

December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Classical Album Reviews: “Dance With Me” and “Eden”

March 20, 2022
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Marvelously accomplished albums from American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan.

Year-end CD Round-up, Part 1: Rosanne Philippens’ Prokofiev, Dover Quartet’s “Voices of Defiance,” Longleash’s “Passage,” Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, and Barbara Hannigan’s “Crazy Girl Crazy”

December 18, 2017
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Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

Commentary: Best Classical Performances of 2016

December 16, 2016
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Picks for the top live classical performances of 2016. Feel free to agree, disagree, add to them, come up with your own list, etc.

Concert Review: The Bard in Boston, Part 2

February 9, 2016
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Everyone on stage seemed to sense that this was a special occasion and the BSO, accordingly, played with an extra jolt of electricity.

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