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Soliste vocal : Hasnaa BENNANI
Hasnaa BENNANI
Soprano
Bennani’s voice is flexible and smooth and her phrasing is elegant. Her breath control is extraordinary and allows her to sing long lines with extreme elegance. 
Opéra Magazine
What strikes you about Hasnaa Bennani as soon as you hear her first notes is the creaminess and honey-colour of her radiant timbre. Then there's her art of phrasing, with its confounding subtlety and naturalness, combined with flawless agility. These qualities make her an ideal interpreter of the Italian repertoire of the 18th century, but also of French tragédie lyrique, thanks to her sovereign elegance of line and superlative diction.
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The French Moroccan soprano began her musical career in Rabat with her sister Jalila Bennani, a singer and choirmaster, and Lazslo Fodor, her violin teacher – she is what you might call a complete musician. She then graduated from the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Glenn Chambers and went on to perfect her early music skills with Howard Crook and Isabelle Poulenard.
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After winning First Prize at the Froville Baroque Singing Competition, Hasnaa's career took off rapidly, and she began working with a host of renowned ensembles, including, in France, La Grande Écurie and La Chambre du Roy (with the late Jean-Claude Malgoire), Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Les Surprises (Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas), La Rêveuse (Benjamin Perrot), Les Ambassadeurs (Alexis Kossenko), Akadêmia (Françoise Lasserre), Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller) and Le Caravansérail (Bertrand Cuiller).
Abroad, her refined artistry has attracted ensembles such as Les Muffatti (Peter Van Heyghen), the Capella Cracoviensis (Jan Tomasz Adamus), the Hassler Consort (Franz Raml), the Orfeo Orchestra (György Vashegyi) and Armonia Atenea (George Petrou).
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In opera, Hasnaa has sung the role of Al-Faïma in Dubois's Aben-Hamet at the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, Snow and Spring in Gérard Condé's La Chouette Enrhumée at the Opéra de Metz, a Water Nymph in Lully's Armide at the Opéra de Nancy, Cléone and an Ombre Heureuse in Castor et Pollux by Rameau successively with Le Concert Spirituel at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and with Les Talens Lyriques at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Ismène in Alcione by Marais with Jordi Savall at the Opéra-Comique, and the role of Berenice in Scipione by Handel at the Halle Festival with Armonia Atenea conducted by Georg Petrou. With the same team, she sang the role of Gildippe in Porpora's Carlo il Calvo. In 2020, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival in the role of Giuditta in Vinci's Gismondo, Re di Polonia.
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Recent engagements have seen her in fine company: Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus and Rameau's Castor et Pollux, two major projects with the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra conducted by György Vashegy (Budapest and Versailles), a tour with Scarlatti's Stabat Mater in Paris and Lyon, and at the Festivals of Saint-Dié and Vézelay and the Musicales de Normandie with Le Caravansérail; concerts and recording of Mondonville's Carnaval du Parnasse with Les Ambassadeurs at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and in Tourcoing.
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For 2024/2025, her singing will flourish in Italian music, in particular with a tour of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater alongside Le Poème Harmonique. Hasnaa Bennani will perform the role of Mary Magdalene in Handel's La Resurrezione with Le Concert de la Loge in Ghent. She will take part in the production of Landi's La Morte di Orfeo in Versailles with Stéphane Fuget and Les Épopées. Finally, in summer 2025, Hasnaa will be Ismene in Telemann's Orpheus at the Drottningholm Festival, conducted by Francesco Corti and directed by Elena Barbalich.
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Her discography includes Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres with Le Poème Harmonique (Alpha), Lully's Amadis (as Corisande) and Rameau's Zaïs (as Amour) with Les Talens lyriques (two recordings for Aparté), and an album of opera arias by Handel written for Francesca Cuzzoni with Les Muffatti (Ramée). She recorded the role of Cecina in Porpora's Germanico in Germania for Decca with the Cappella Cracoviensis (this opera was given in concert in Moscow and at the Theater an de Wien).
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The French Moroccan soprano began her musical career in Rabat with her sister Jalila Bennani, a singer and choirmaster, and Lazslo Fodor, her violin teacher – she is what you might call a complete musician. She then graduated from the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Glenn Chambers and went on to perfect her early music skills with Howard Crook and Isabelle Poulenard.
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After winning First Prize at the Froville Baroque Singing Competition, Hasnaa's career took off rapidly, and she began working with a host of renowned ensembles, including, in France, La Grande Écurie and La Chambre du Roy (with the late Jean-Claude Malgoire), Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Les Surprises (Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas), La Rêveuse (Benjamin Perrot), Les Ambassadeurs (Alexis Kossenko), Akadêmia (Françoise Lasserre), Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone), La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller) and Le Caravansérail (Bertrand Cuiller).
Abroad, her refined artistry has attracted ensembles such as Les Muffatti (Peter Van Heyghen), the Capella Cracoviensis (Jan Tomasz Adamus), the Hassler Consort (Franz Raml), the Orfeo Orchestra (György Vashegyi) and Armonia Atenea (George Petrou).
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In opera, Hasnaa has sung the role of Al-Faïma in Dubois's Aben-Hamet at the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, Snow and Spring in Gérard Condé's La Chouette Enrhumée at the Opéra de Metz, a Water Nymph in Lully's Armide at the Opéra de Nancy, Cléone and an Ombre Heureuse in Castor et Pollux by Rameau successively with Le Concert Spirituel at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and with Les Talens Lyriques at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Ismène in Alcione by Marais with Jordi Savall at the Opéra-Comique, and the role of Berenice in Scipione by Handel at the Halle Festival with Armonia Atenea conducted by Georg Petrou. With the same team, she sang the role of Gildippe in Porpora's Carlo il Calvo. In 2020, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival in the role of Giuditta in Vinci's Gismondo, Re di Polonia.
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Recent engagements have seen her in fine company: Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus and Rameau's Castor et Pollux, two major projects with the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra conducted by György Vashegy (Budapest and Versailles), a tour with Scarlatti's Stabat Mater in Paris and Lyon, and at the Festivals of Saint-Dié and Vézelay and the Musicales de Normandie with Le Caravansérail; concerts and recording of Mondonville's Carnaval du Parnasse with Les Ambassadeurs at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and in Tourcoing.
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For 2024/2025, her singing will flourish in Italian music, in particular with a tour of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater alongside Le Poème Harmonique. Hasnaa Bennani will perform the role of Mary Magdalene in Handel's La Resurrezione with Le Concert de la Loge in Ghent. She will take part in the production of Landi's La Morte di Orfeo in Versailles with Stéphane Fuget and Les Épopées. Finally, in summer 2025, Hasnaa will be Ismene in Telemann's Orpheus at the Drottningholm Festival, conducted by Francesco Corti and directed by Elena Barbalich.
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Her discography includes Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres with Le Poème Harmonique (Alpha), Lully's Amadis (as Corisande) and Rameau's Zaïs (as Amour) with Les Talens lyriques (two recordings for Aparté), and an album of opera arias by Handel written for Francesca Cuzzoni with Les Muffatti (Ramée). She recorded the role of Cecina in Porpora's Germanico in Germania for Decca with the Cappella Cracoviensis (this opera was given in concert in Moscow and at the Theater an de Wien).
General management
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Virginie GOUET virginie@concertsparisiens.fr +331 48 24 16 97 +336 64 85 09 00 |
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Yutha TEP ytep@concertsparisiens.fr +331 48 24 16 97 +336 61 88 64 78 |
