Ann Hallenberg

Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg regularly appears in major opera houses and festivals, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Real in Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Staatsoper Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the Edinburgh Festival.

Her operatic repertoire includes a large number of roles in works by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bizet and Massenet, to name but a few.

She is highly sought after as a concert singer and frequently appears in concert halls throughout Europe and North America. She has built an unusually extensive concert repertoire spanning music from early seventeenth-century works to those of the twentieth century. Among her most frequently performed concert works, alongside the Baroque repertoire, are Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, La damnation de Faust and L’enfance du Christ; Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, Kindertotenlieder, Das Lied von der Erde and Symphony No. 2; Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody; Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos; Rossini’s Giovanna d’Arco; Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Symphony No. 9; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; and Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust.

She has performed with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre national de France, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic. She enjoys a particularly close collaboration with the ensembles Les Talens Lyriques, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Europa Galante.

Ann Hallenberg has worked regularly with conductors including Fabio Biondi, Gianluca Capuano, William Christie, T eodor Currentzis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Daniel Harding, Andrea Marcon, Cornelius Meister, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Antonio Pappano, Evelino Pidò and Christophe Rousset.

Recent engagements include the role of Juditha in Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans in Rome with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Dejanira in Handel’s Hercules at the Händel Festival in Karlsruhe; Marie in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and in London with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras; Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos and Scena di Berenice at the Barbican Centre in London with the Academy of Ancient Music; Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, Lobgesang, with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Beethoven’s Missa solemnis in London and Berlin under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner; the title role in Handel’s Ariodante in Ljubljana with Il Pomo d’Oro; Bach’s St John Passion with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; the title role in Vivaldi’s Griselda at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; the title role in Handel’s Solomon in London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Madrid with The English Concert; and arias by Handel at Wigmore Hall in London with The Mozartists and Ian Page.

She was appointed Court Singer by the King of Sweden in 2021 and elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2022.

She has recorded more than 40 CDs and DVDs. At the International Opera Awards in London in May 2016, her solo CD Agrippina won the award for Best Operatic Recital. This marked her second win in the category, having previously received the award in 2014.