She did both things very well in the first of two dates with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday night at a roomy-seeming Roy Thomson Hall. It is rare for the TSO to program such a disparate collection of music, some of it not widely known. TSO principal flute Kelly Zimba took a solo turn, from one of the balconies, in Debussy’s haunting Syrinx. Hannigan then took the orchestra straight into Sibelius’ tone poem Luonnotar, which includes a demanding soprano part. Hannigan’s command of the orchestra faltered a couple of times, but it was generally a clean, nicely articulated interpretation.

Source: thestar February 14, 2019 15:36 UTC