Barbara Hannigan is a Canadian soprano and conductor, known for her performances of contemporary opera. She studied music at the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

KNOWN FOR

Four Rational People
2025
Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence
2018
Music is Music/Crazy Girl Crazy
2017
Nostradamus
2000
Toothpaste
2002
Burnt Toast
2005
Barbara Hannigan - Ligeti and Stravinsky
2024
One
2011
Jarrell: Bérénice
2018
C'est presque au bout du monde
2015
Zorn III (2018 – 2022)
2024
Lulu - La Monnaie / De Munt
2021

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
27
Sound
3
Crew
1
2026
Barbara Hannigan: Soprano and Conductor
as Self
2024
Before It's Too Late
as Barbara Hannigan
2024
Barbara Hannigan - Ligeti and Stravinsky
2024
Zorn III (2018 – 2022)
as Self
2022
Fuoco Sacro - A Search for the Sacred Fire of Song
as Self
2022
John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ Volume 10 - Bozar, Brussels
as Herself
2022
Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen
as Gerda
2021
Lulu - La Monnaie / De Munt
as Lulu
2021
Barbara Hannigan Conducts Stravinsky and Weill Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
2019
Barbara Hannigan - Ein Opernstar auf neuen Wegen
as Self
2018
Jarrell: Bérénice
as Bérénice
2018
Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence
as Isabel
2018
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
as Her
2018
Glyndebourne: Hamlet
as Ophelia
2017
Music is Music/Crazy Girl Crazy
2017
Maestras: The Long Journey of Women to the Podium
as Self/Conductor/Soprano
2016
Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence
as Mélisande
2015
C'est presque au bout du monde
2015
Pappano e l'Accademia di Santa Cecilia: Sciarrino - Bach
2014
I'm a Creative Animal - A Portrait of Barbara Hannigan
as Self
2014
I'm a Creative Animal
2014
Casanova Variations
as Sofia
2013
Written On Skin
2011
Le Grand Macabre
as Venus / Gepopo
2011
One
as Soprano
2005
Burnt Toast
as Constance
2002
Toothpaste
as Wife