Barbara Hannigan is an
incredibly talented singer/actress, and a champion of 20th and 21st century
music. She is also a conductor. I keep trying to decide if her performance in this set of Mozart
arias is super-impressive, or if she's just showing off.
Of course,
there are instrumentalists (usually pianists or violinists) who conduct
their own concertos. Is this odd because she is a singer, because she is
a woman, or both? Or is it way cool? I think the answer to all these questions is "yes."
In the same concert (available on YT and on the GSO website) she also conducts a Rossini overture and vocal/performance works by Nono and Ligeti.
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