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Soprano Barbara Hannigan: Interpreting Comic Contemporary Operatic Song

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis
Published September 2, 2013 at 9:22 AM EDT

Barbara Hannigan is a world-renowned vocalist at home in many genres. She's known especially for her performances of contemporary music. This Sunday, WRTI’s broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra in concert, features Hannigan in what has become one of her signature works:  Ligetti's Mysteries of the Macabre. Berlin Philharmonic Music Director Simon Rattle conducts.

http://youtu.be/8ZKaMuALMMY

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Susan Lewis
Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
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