Constance Hauman
is a singer, pianist, actress and producer. During her wide-ranging career, she has appeared at major opera houses and concert halls and worked in the film industry. She has sung at New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Canadian Opera, English National Opera, Opéra de Nice, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra National de Paris and Hong Kong Festival, to name just a few. She has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and London Symphony orchestras. Her solo album Falling Into Now made it into the Guardian’s Top 10 Pop Albums 2015. Its successor, High Tides, appeared in 2019. Constance Hauman has toured the US and Europe as musical director, keyboarder and producer of the band Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf. Her live recording of Alban Berg’s Lulu, in which she sang the title role, was just as much of a success as her Alice/Renee in Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek’s stage adaptation of David Lynch’s film Lost Highway. As Cunegonde in Candide she was directed by Leonard Bernstein and racked up a full 150 performances of this role. In 2000, she made her ROH Covent Garden debut in Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain.