10th Anniversary: Barbara Hendricks
Dates:
05/26/2009 - 20:00
Room:
Auditorium
Promoter:
Dekker Events
Tickets:
Prices
From €20 to €50
A 20% discount will apply to holders of the "El Correo" subscribers´ club card only for tickets purchased at the Euskalduna box offices.
Once a show has started, and out of respect for the rest of the audience and performers, members of the audience will only be allowed to enter or return to the room during intermissions, if any.
Buy tickets:
Telephone: 944 310 310.
Cash point: BBK Cash Point. Find BBK Cash Point.
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Seating plan:
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A diva of lyric singing and human rights
Barbara Hendricks, one of the world´s most outstanding lyric sopranos sang the premiere of "The Coronation of Poppea" by Monteverdi at the San Francisco Opera House in 1972. Her international career was boosted by performances with some of the world´s most renown opera companies. Her opera repertoire features more than twenty titles as well as American comedies, French melodies and negro spirituals. She has sung oratorios with some of the world´s best conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Metha, George Solti, Claudio Abbado or Herbert Von Karajan.
A tireless fighter in the advocacy of human rights and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 1986 the French government made Hendricks a "Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres" and in 1992 she was awarded the rank of "Chevalier de la Légion d´Honneur" by President Francois Mitterrand himself. In 2000 she received the Prince of Asturias Foundation Award for her advocacy of human rights and artistic contributions towards the cultural heritage of mankind. She is also a member of the International Tribunal for Children´s Rights.
