Barbara Hendricks
One of the top singers of her generation, soprano Barbara Hendricks has excelled both on the operatic stage and in concert halls. Noted for her humanitarian work, Hendricks has had an exceptionally long career as a performer and recording artist.
Hendricks was born on November 20, 1948, in Stephens, Arkansas. As a girl, she took voice lessons and sang many solos. She attended Horace Mann High School in Little Rock, graduating with honors, and earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After a stint at the Aspen Music Festival's summer school, she was accepted at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, studying there with Jennie Tourel. Hendricks won several major awards over the next several years, including the Grand Prize and the Mozart Prize at the Concours International de Paris in 1972. In 1973, she earned a bachelor's degree in voice from Juilliard.
The year 1974 saw Hendricks make several major breakthroughs, including a recital debut at New York's Town Hall, operatic debuts with the San Francisco Symphony (as Erisbe in Cavalli's Ormindo), and the Glyndebourne Opera in Britain, a debut with the Chicago Symphony under conductor Georg Solti, and a recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with the Cleveland Orchestra under Lorin Maazel. In 1977, she moved to Europe and has lived there ever since; she married producer Martin Engström in 1981, and the couple has three children, one named Jennie. Hendricks is a Swedish citizen.
Hendricks has appeared at most of the world's major operatic venues, including New York's Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opéra, La Scala in Milan, Italy, and Covent Garden in London. She has a large repertory of German lieder and has extensive experience as a recitalist with such famed accompanists as András Schiff, Peter Serkin, Radu Lupu, and increasingly often in her later career, Love Derwinger, with whom she has often recorded on her own Arte Verum label.
Hendricks gave peace concerts in Sarajevo and Dubrovnik during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, and in 1998, she formed the Barbara Hendricks Foundation For Peace and Reconciliation. She has championed contemporary music, premiering works by such composers as David Del Tredici, Bruno Mantovani, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Arvo Pärt. She also performs jazz, and in 1981, she recorded an album of Gershwin songs with the piano duo Katia & Marielle Labèque. Hendricks has made more than 80 recordings, releasing them mostly on Arte Verum since its formation. She has remained quite active as a senior citizen, and in 2023, she issued an album of orchestral songs by Berlioz with the Pori Sinfonietta. Hendricks has been widely honored in later life; French president François Mitterand made her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1993.
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Artistas semelhantes
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Arias & Lieder
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 3 de nov. de 2008
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Wolf - Lieder
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 5 de out. de 2000
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Storytellers (Live)
Sir Peter Ustinov, Roger Vignoles, Barbara Hendricks, Michel Dalberto, Carmina Quartet
Classical - Lançado por Verbier Festival Gold em 3 de fev. de 2023
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Ravel Duparc Melodies
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 7 de dez. de 1988
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Songs Jennie Taught Me
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 13 de out. de 1997
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Fauré & Ravel: Mélodies
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger, Swedish Chamber Ensemble
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 31 de jan. de 2014
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Mélodies de Berlioz, Britten, Ravel et Duparc
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 3 de nov. de 2008
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Endless Pleasure
Barbara Hendricks, Drottningholms Barockensemble
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 15 de out. de 2007
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Mélodies nordiques
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 1 de jan. de 2002
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Berlioz/Britten: Vocal Works
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 1 de mai. de 1994
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Francis Poulenc: Mélodies
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 15 de mar. de 2008
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Debussy Melodies
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 1 de jan. de 1985
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Barbara Hendricks, Roland Pöntinen
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 18 de fev. de 2010
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Schubert: Winterreise
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 1 de set. de 2011
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Beethoven: Lieder & Volkslieder
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger, Christian Bergqvist, Leo Winland
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 22 de abr. de 2009
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Canciones Españolas
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 19 de jul. de 2006
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Schumann: Lieder
Barbara Hendricks, Roland Pöntinen
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 14 de mar. de 2007
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Brahms: Lieder
Barbara Hendricks, Roland Pöntinen
Classical - Lançado por Arte Verum em 25 de mar. de 2013
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Mozart: Lieder
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 2 de ago. de 1993
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David Del Tredici : Final Alice
Barbara Hendricks, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Sir Georg Solti
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 1 de jun. de 1981
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