Constance Hauman : Credits
Constance Hauman has sung with the following opera companies and orchestras:
OPERA COMPANIES
US and Canada
New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Arizona Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Dayton Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Washington Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Atlanta Opera, New Orleans Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, American Opera Projects, L’Opera Francaise de New York, Canadian Opera. Spoleto Festival Charleston,
US Orchestras
Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego and Toledo Symphony, Rochester Symphony, Roanoke and North Carolina Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony, Nashville Symphony, New York Philharmonic
UK Opera Houses/ Symphonies and Festivals
Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
London Symphony, London Philharmonia, London Sinfonietta
European Opera Houses, Orchestras and Festivals
Opera National de Paris, L’Opera de Marseilles, L’Opera de Nice, Opera St Etienne, L’Opera de Nantes, L’Opera du Rhin, L’Opera Comique; Radio France; Teatro Communale, Rome Opera. Spoleto Festival Umbria, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Orchestra, Vara Radio Orchestra, Spanga Opera Festival; Flemish Opera of Antwerp Ghent; Opera de Liege, Lisbon Philharmonic, Opera Basel Switzerland, Graz Austria, Danish Radio Orchestra, Orquestra Valencia,
Asia
New Japan Philharmonic; Hong Kong Festival
Constance Hauman has been a favorite with the directors, conductors and composers listed below:
Directors
Eric Fraad
Christopher Alden
David Alden
Willy Decker
Ivo van Hove
Travis Preston
Gary Marshall
Greg Brevoort
Pier Luigi Pizzi
Frederic Mitterand
Steven Lawless
Di Trevis
Peter Sellars
Colin Graham
Florian Leibrecht
Robert Carsen
Mark Morris
Joachim Schloemer
Conductors
Leonard Bernstein
Lukas Foss
John Mauceri
Michael Tilson Thomas
Emmanuel Vuillaume
Joseph Kalitzke
Patrick Summers
James Conlon
Frederic Chaslin
Steven Mercurio
John Crosby
Edo de Vaart
David Levi
Elgar Howarth
Gerald Schwarz
Kent Nagano
Daniel Barenboim
Kurt Masur
Ulf Schimer
Bernhard Kontarsky
Andrew Litton
Harry Bickett
George Manahan
Richard Buckley
Andreas Delfs
Steven Sloane
John Crosby
Contemporary Composers
Olga Neuwirth
David Heath
Harrison Birtwhistle
Robert Beaser
Hans Werner Henze
Lee Hoiby
Jennifer Griffiths
Dominic Mulhoney
Hershel Garfein
Frederic Chaslin
Carlyle Floyd
Constance Hauman has performed the roles/operas listed below, multiple times between 1984-2010, culminating in over 2000 performances on stage for opera alone:
Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie)
Ariadne auf Naxos (Zerbinetta)
Die Schweigsame Frau (Aminta)
Capriccio (Italian Singer)
Frau ohne Schatten (Falcon)
Rossini
La Cenerentola (Clorinda)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina )
Turco in Italia (Fiorillia)
Guillaume Tell (Jemmy)
Mozart
Die Zauberflote (Queen of the Night)
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Seraglio (Blondchen)
Don Giovanni (Zerlina)
Marriage of Figaro (Susanna)
Gounod
Romeo et Juliette (Juliette)
Werther (Sophie)
Krenek
Jonny Spieltauf (Yvonne)
Milhaud
Le Pauvre Matelot (La Femme)
Offenbach
Tales of Hoffman (Olympia)
La Perichole (Perichole)
La Grande Duchesse (Wanda)
Dick Whittington and his Cat (Miss Cicely)
Verdi
Rigoletto (Gilda)
Ballo in Maschera (Oscar)
Aida (Aida)
Falstaff (Nanetta)
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
Don Pasquale (Norina)
La Fille de Regiment (Marie)
L’Elisir d’Amore (Adina)
Cavalli
Giasone (Amor)
Gluck
L’ile de Merlin (Hippocratine)
Handel
Semele (Iris)
Bellini
La Sonnambula (La Sonnambula)
Capuletti et Montecchi (Giulietta)
Britten
Midsummer’s Night’s Dream (Tytania)
Albert Herring (Mrs. Wordsworth)
Zemlinksy
Der Zwerg (Infanta)
Carlyle Floyd
Cold Sassy Tree (Mary Willis)
Lee Hoiby
The Tempest (Ariel)
Olga Neuwirth
Lost Highway (Renee)
Harrison Birtwhistle
Gawain (Morgan le Fey)
Henze
We Come to the River (May)
Berg
Lulu (Lulu)
Ravel
L’Enfant et les Sortileges (Fire/Princess)
Puccini
La Boheme (Musetta)
Il Trittico (Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica)
Madama Butterfly (Kate)
Wagner
Siegfried (Forest Bird)
Parsifal (Blumenmadchen)
Tannhauser (Shepard)
Stravinsky
Rake’s Progress (Anne)
Kalman
Countess Maritza (Lisa)
Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus (Adele)
Franz Lehar
Merry Widow (Widow)
Chaslin
Wuthering Heights (Nelly)
Bernstein
Candide (Cunegonde)
Cole Porter
Kiss Me Kate (Kate)
Kurt Weill
Seven Deadly Sins (Anna)
The Eternal Road (Rachel)
Three Penny Opera (Mrs. Peachum)
Constance Hauman has performed the following Orchestral and Choral Works:
R. Strauss – Brentano Lieder
R. Strauss – Vier Letzte Lieder
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
Beethoven – 9th
Beaser – The Heavenly Feast
Bach – St. Matthew Passion
Mahler – 2
Mozart – Requiem
Mozart – C minor mass
Faure – Requiem
Berg – Seven Early Songs
Vivaldi – Gloria
Fall of Jerusalem
Recitals
Zemlinsky Maerlink Lieder (Austrian Cultural Center NYC; Austrian Embassy Washington DC)
Berg 7 Early Songs (Austrian Cultural Center NYC;Austrian Embassy Washington DC
Schreker Lieder (Austrian Cultural Center NYC; Austrian Embassy Washington DC)
Schoenberg Brettl Lieder (same as above)
Theatre
Souvenir, A Fantasia on Florence Foster Jenkins (Falcon Theatre/Burbank)
Kiss Me Kate (Berkshire Theatre Festival)
Alice in Bed (New York Theatre Workshop)
Film and Television
Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton/Sony Pictures)
M for Murder (Veronique/Canal Plus)
Pop
Empire of the Sun – LUX
Jimmy Harry – Queen of the Night Dance tracks
In addition to all of the above, Constance Hauman created, wrote, directed and performed her one woman show Exiles in Paradise in the following venues:
UCLA Schoenberg Hall 1997
92nd St Y (1998)
Liebeskind Jewish Museum Berlin (2001)
Austrian Embassy (2005)
Falcon Theatre Burbank one month run (2006)
Pinehurst NC (2013)
Other original works include: Cabaret Noir, a 20 piece of Kurt Weill for soprano and dance company created by Constance Hauman and Ruth Davidson Hahn; performed by Constance Hauman and The Ruth Davidson Hahn Dance Company; Olive and Edith created by Constance Hauman and Ruth Davidson Hahn, an homage to Olive Fremstad and Willa Cather performed by Constance Hauman and Ruth Davidson.
Awards
2008 Ohio Citizens Award
(Exiles in Paradise)
2008 Northwestern Alumni Award for Music
2005 Diaspon D’or
(Lost Highway/Renee)
1991 Richard Tucker Sullivan Grant
Recordings
Parsifal (Wagner/Barenboim/Teldec) 1990
Lulu (Berg/Schirmer/Chandos) 1996
Madama Butterfly (Puccini/Conlon/Sony) 1991
Milken Archives (Beaser/Weill/Berlinski /Schwarz/Naxos) 2001-03
Lost Highway (Neuwirth/Kalitzke/Koch) 2004
Lux (Empire of the Sun/Capitol) 2012
Falling Into Now (Hauman/Isotopia Records) 2015
Debut album of original songs (music and lyrics) by Constance Hauman which also reveals her talent as a songstress, pianist, arranger and music producer as well as introducing her record label Isotopia.
Fun Facts
Constance Hauman is the only singer to have performed the roles of Olympia, Zerbinetta and Ariel ‘en pointe’ ie., in and on toe shoes, using her years as training in ballet and dance. ~ She turned the role of Yvonne the french maid in Ernst Krenek’s Jonny Spieltauf into Yvonne the tap dancing maid; the role of Amor in Cavalli’s Giasone, she roller blading down the aisles and famously sang a duet while hula hooping. ~ Constance was the first singer to be completely nude for over 30 minutes on stage in the title role of Lulu in the epic production of LULU at the Queen of Denmark’s Castle in 1996. ~ After her big break of going on with 24 hrs notice for June Anderson in Candide, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, the word got around that she was fearless in replacing ailing singers without rehearsal. So, on the opening night of the New Orleans opera, Constance was flown down from Toronto where she was performing Don Giovanni, to open the New Orleans season in the title role of Lucia of Lucia di Lammermoor, for a suddenly fallen ill soprano. She famously arrived in New Orleans 6pm for a 7:30 curtain, was held in traffic on the way to the opera house, was pinned into the leading ladies costume at 7:15 and was on stage at 7:30. For the fiendishly difficult role of Aminta in Die Schweigsame Frau, she replaced Natalie Dessay, learning the role in less than a week for L’Opera de Marseilles. She replaced Sumi Jo with the New Japan Symphony in an all french heroine aria program in Tokyo on a 48 hrs notice.
And last but not least, for the infamous porn movie clip in David Lynch/Olga Neuwirth’s Lost Highway, it is safe to say, Constance is the first and only opera singer to make a porn movie for the sake of a production’s integrity.