(About Pascal Dusapin and her role in the his opera Passion, HF 2009) Having spent months learning this role, having performed it many times, and now revisiting it for HF 2009, I am struck with how, each time, each phrase that Dusapin created is so fresh, so full of possibility. He challenges me with his writing, to be him, to be his voice and remain myself, to remain myself and to go far away from what I can consciously understand, to give up on understanding and just SING and trust that it is enough. And it is! I am very grateful to him for every note of this opera, every note of both the voices and the orchestra.
Barbara Hannigan