Barbara Hannigan conducts the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and sings at the Théâtre de Beaulieu. This Grand Concert No. 4 takes place on Wednesday 9 December 2026 at 7.30 pm.
The story
Barbara Hannigan is a Canadian conductor and soprano. She grew up in Waverley, Nova Scotia.
She has premiered more than 120 new works. She created the title role of Agnes in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin.
Her album Crazy Girl Crazy, her first as singer and conductor, won a Grammy Award.
She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2016 and received the Polar Music Prize in 2025.
She is principal guest conductor of the OCL. This concert falls in her third season in that role.
In 2026-2027, she also becomes artistic director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Who organises it
The Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne presents the concert as part of its Grand Concerts series.
What to find
The programme explores the night and its colours.
It brings together Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Andante for strings.
Barbara Hannigan sings Samuel Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915.
Next come Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream overture and Seven Valleys of Love by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam.
Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 “Classical” closes the evening.
Practical information
- Dates, Wednesday 9 December 2026
- Time, 7.30 pm
- Duration, about 1 hour 30 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
- Venue, Théâtre de Beaulieu, Avenue des Bergières 10, 1004 Lausanne
- Prices, full price 30.– to 80.–, AVS, AI and unemployed 27.– to 72.–, under 30s 10.– to 30.–
- Tickets, OCL, +41 21 345 00 20, Tuesday to Friday, 9 am to 1 pm
Links
- Official website, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
- Tickets, OCL
- All events across French-speaking Switzerland, Genève Infos Agenda
Sources
- OCL, concert list, accessed on 14 November 2026
- OCL, Grand Concert No. 4 page, accessed on 14 November 2026
- OCL, Barbara Hannigan page, accessed on 14 November 2026
- OCL, access and contact, accessed on 14 November 2026
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