The Swedish mezzo-soprano, Ann Hallenberg, studied at the National College of Operatic Art in Stockholm with Kerstin Meyer and Erik Sædén, and graduated in 1994. She has also studied with Joy Mammen in London. Ann Hallenberg regularly appears in opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala Milan and Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa in Italy; Teatro Real Madrid in Spain; Opéra National Paris, Opéra de Lyon and Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg in France; Bayerische Staatsoper München, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Lirico in Bremen, Oper der Stadt Bonn, Komische Oper Berlin, and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Germany; Opernhaus Zürich in Switzeland; Theater an der Wien, Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Opéra Garnier Monaco, Opera Montpellier, Norwegian National Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Drottningholm Theatre Stockholm, and Volksoper in Stockholm. She has also appeared in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America, such as and festivals such as Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Boston Early Music Festival, Tanglewood Festival, and Utrech Festival for Old Music. She has sung concerts in USA, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Austria, England, and Switzerland.
Ann Hallenberg has collaborated and regularly works with conductors such as Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Francesco Corti, Marcus Creed, Alan Curtis, Ottavio Dantone, Patrick Fournillier, John Eliot Gardiner, Roy Goodman, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Herreweghe, Michael Hofstetter, Alessandro de Marchi, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Moulds, Riccardo Muti, Peter Neumann, Jonathan Nott, Arnold Östman, Jérémie Rhorer, Daniel Reuss, Christophe Rousset, Kwame Ryan, Federico Maria Sardelli, Andreas Spering, Christoph Spering, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, David Stern, Stephen Stubbs, Mark Tatlow, Jos van Veldhoven, Lothar Zagrosek, and.
Ann Hallenberg’s repertoire include Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Isabella in L’italiana In Algeri, Rosina in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Charlotte in Werther, the title role in Carmen, Clarice in The Love For Three Oranges, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, the title role in Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba, the title role in Gluck’s Aristeo, Aristeo in Rossi’s Orfeo, Aristeo in Sartorio’s Orfeo, Flosshilde in Das Rheingold, and Deianira in Cavalli’s Ercole Amante. Her many Georg Frideric Handel roles include Tauride in Arianna, Tedata in Flavio, Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, Dejanira in Hercules, Tirinto in Imeneo, Storgé in Jephta, Arsamene in Serse, the title role in Siroe, Irene in Tamerlano, Cyrus in Belshazzar, and Piacere in Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno. Her repertoire also includes numerous leading roles in operas by Antonio Vivaldi, such as the title role in Juditha Triumphans.
In February 2003 Ann Hallenberg had an enormous success as Piacere in IL Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno in Zurich, stepping in for Cecilia Bartoli on short notice. In the autumn of 2003 she sang Cyrus in G.F. Handel’s Belshazzar in Amsterdam and Rotterdam with the conductor Marcus Creed, Mozart’s Betulia Liberata with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 3 with the Staatsorchester Hannover, and Johannes Brahms' Liebesliederwalzer at the Opéra National Paris.Early in 2004 she sang Piacere in Il Trionfo Del Tempo e Del Disinganno in Zürich with the conductor Marc Minkowski, and G. Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Bamberger Symphoniker and the conductor Jonathan Nott. In the spring of 2004 Ann Hallenberg sang Dejanira in G.F. Handel’s Hercules at the Händel Festival in Halle with the conductor Alessandro de Marchi, Haydn’s Die Sieben Letzten Worte with RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, and she will make a recording of Josef Myslivecek’s La Passione with Christoph Spering.
Other engagements in recent years includeed concerts of G.F. Handel’s Belshazzar in Paris, Lyon, Zürich, and London with the conductor Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players, as well as in Hamburg with the conductor Marcus Creed, A. Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Rotterdam, and she sang Dejanira in G.F. Handel’s Hercules at the Wienerfestwochen, Vienna, and on tour in the USA with the conductor William Christie. With the conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi and the Ensemble Matheus she sang concerts at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, and at the Festival d'Ambronay and made a recording of Licori in A. Vivaldi’s La Fida Ninfa. With the same team she sang concerts in Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Toulouse as well as made a recording of Bradamante in A. Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso. She also sang concerts at the Barbican in London and at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris as well as recorded Piacere in Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno with the conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'
