Constance Hauman
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Constance Hauman, soprano; Born 1961; Attended Northwestern University. Miss Hauman is credited with having the only live recording of Alban Berg's LULU(Chandos) in the title role; recorded in Copenhagen 1996 at the Queen of Denmark's Castle. This historic production took place in the Royal Riding Stables and brought the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Groengard Teatre and an international cast together to honor Copenhagen as the Cultural City of Europe for 1996. In 2003-4 Ms. Hauman sang the World Premiere of Alice/Renee in Olga Neuwirth's, Elfriede Jelinek's stage adaptation of David Lynch's film LOST HIGHWAY. This production was a special event to honor the city of Graz, Austria as the Cultural City of Europe 2003. Performances continued in Basel Switzerland and the Cité de la musique in Paris. Miss Hauman is the creator, writer, producer, performer of EXILES IN PARADISE, a documentary film/live performance recital with string quartet which spans the history, lives and hollywood stories of Eastern Europe's exiled composers in Los Angles from 1932-1949. EXILES opened up the Jewish Museum in Berlin on Sept. 10th 2001; It has been performed at the 92nd St.Y. NYC; Austrian Embassy, Washington D.C.; and most recently (2006) for a run of performances at the Falcon Theater (Garry Marshall) in Burbank, CA. Leonard Bernstein handpicked Constance Hauman to fill in on 24 hrs. notice to replace an ailing June Anderson in the only concerts where he conducted his operetta CANDIDE himself. This performance catapulted her to over 150 performances of Cunégonde in CANDIDE over a 6 year period.
She made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut in 2000 for the re-opening of the Opera house in the fiendishly difficult role of Morgan le Fey in Harrison Birtwhistle's GAWAIN; Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Lyric Opera; Chicago Symphony; San Francisco Symphony; London Symphony; New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Long Beach Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Dallas Opera, Washington National Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Miami Opera, Toledo Opera, Spoleto Festival Charleston S.C.; Canadian Opera; English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, London Sinfonietta; Opera de Nice, Opera de Marseilles, Opera de Tours, Opera de Nantes, Opera de St, Etienne, OPera du Rhin, Opera de Montpelier,Theatre Champs Elysee, Opera de Comique, Opera National de Paris; Opera de Roma, Teatro Communale Florence; Spoleto Festival SPanga Festival Holland; Japan Philharmonic; Royal Danish Radio Orchestra; Hong Kong Festival; Orquesta di Lisboa, Portugal; VARA Radio Orchestra, Amsterdam; Miss Hauman is Tucker Foundation Recipient. Miss Hauman recorded for the Milken Archives, Teldec and Sony; She can be heard as Kate Pinkerton in Frédéric Mitterrand's critically acclaimed film, MADAMA BUTTERFLY.
