Barbara Hendricks
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Biography
Like so many other famous American classical artists, the African-American soprano singer Barbara Hendricks attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. During her time at the school she was mentored by the Russian-born mezzo soprano Jennie Tourel and Hendricks paid homage to her former teacher with a compilation of art songs titled 'Hommage à Jennie Tourel' which she released in 1998.
Hendricks made her professional European operatic debut in 1974, firstly at the UK's Glyndebourne Festival and then in the US at the San Francisco Opera. Since then she has risen to become one of the world's leading operatic sopranos and has appeared at major opera venues around the globe including the New York Met, London's Royal Opera House, the Opera Nationale in Paris and Milan's La Scala.
Outside of classical music Hendricks is also a respected jazz singer and has appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival and other major jazz festivals around the world. In her private life she is an active campaigner for the rights of refugees and displaced people and in 2002 was named as an Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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- l'Enfant Prodigue: L'année en vain...Cependant les soirs. by Barbara Hendricks
- La Wally: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana by Barbara Hendricks
- Eugene Onegin: Act 1: Letter Aria by Barbara Hendricks
- Madama Butterfly: Act 2: Un bel dì vedremo by Barbara Hendricks
- Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro by Barbara Hendricks
- The Rake's Progress: Act 1, Scene 3: No word from Tom by Barbara Hendricks
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Ecco: respiro appena...Io son l'umile ancella by Barbara Hendricks
- Carmen: Habanera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle by Barbara Hendricks
- Magnificat in D, BWV 243: X. Suscepit Israel featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Magnificat in D, BWV 243: III. Quia respexit
- Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great": III. Credo - Et incarnatus est by Barbara Hendricks
- Mass No. 15 in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation": VI. Agnus Dei by Barbara Hendricks
- Mass No. 16 in C major, K317, 'Coronation': Agnus Dei featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K243: Dulcissimum convivium featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Ellens Gesang III, Op. 52 No. 6, D. 839: Ave Maria (Orch. Challan)
- Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Chansons Madécasses, Op. 78~Aoua!
- Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé~Surgi de la croupe et du bond
- Winterreise, D. 911~No. 1. Gute Nacht
- Gloria in D, RV 589: XI. Quoniam tu solus sanctus featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Grabmusik Betrach dies Herz K42a/K35a featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Gloria in D, RV 589: XII. Cum Sancto Spiritu featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Gloria in D, RV 589: IX. Qui tollis peccata mundi featuring Barbara Hendricks
- Gloria in D, RV 589: X. Qui sedes ad dexteram featuring Barbara Hendricks
