This season, up-and-coming soprano Hanan Alattar makes her debut at the English National Opera as Musetta in a new production of La Bohéme by Jonathan Miller. She recently made her debuts at the Ravinia Festival as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with James Conlon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival in a concert with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Bard Music Festival in their production of Der Zwerg, and at the Berlin Staatsoper in Manon.

This season, up-and-coming soprano Hanan Alattar makes her debut at the English National Opera as Musetta in a new production of La Bohéme by Jonathan Miller. She recently made her debuts at the Ravinia Festival as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with James Conlon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival in a concert with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Bard Music Festival in their production of Der Zwerg, and at the Berlin Staatsoper in Manon.

Other recent opera engagements have included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte  at the Arizona Opera, Dragonette in the world premiere of Elliot Goldenthal's Grendel, directed by Julie Taymor, at both the Los Angeles Opera and the Lincoln Center Festival; productions of Don Carlo, Manon, and L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Los Angeles Opera, Gilda in Rigoletto at Opera Santa Barbara, Water in The Little Prince, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and First Maid in Daphne at the New York City Opera; Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd at Wolf Trap Opera, Alceste in Arianna in Creta at the Gotham Chamber Opera, and Sacagawea in Stephen Mager's new children's opera Dream of the Pacific at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis. As a New Horizon Scholar at the Aspen Music Festival, her many appearances there included Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, and concert performances of  Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard, and Stravinsky's Les noces.

Ms. Alattar's many concert engagements have included the role of Bubikoph in Victor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantic with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New World Symphony, and at the Spoleto Festival in Italy and the Central Synagogue in New York City, all under the baton of James Conlon; Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, and the title role in Rusalka in concert performances with Miguel Harth Bodoya and the Forth Worth Symphony. She has also been presented in recital in New York's Weill Hall by the Marilyn Horne Foundation. This season she will again be presented in recital by the Marilyn Horne Foundation and appears with the Ft. Worth Symphony.

Ms Alattar received an Artist Diploma and a Masters of Music degree from The Juilliard School, and a Bachelor of Music Degree from University of Texas at Austin. She is also the recipient of a 2004 Sullivan Foundation Award, the winner of the 2002 Aspen Concerto Competition, and was a finalist in the Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers.