Hanan Alattar

Hanan Alattar is an American

Alattar was born in Houston, Texas. She first became interested in opera while a student at Saint Agnes Academy in her native city. She studied vocal performance at the University of Texas at Austin and with Marlena Malas and Diane Richardson at the Juilliard School in New York City. While at Juilliard she portrayed roles in several productions, including Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Lady Billows in Britten's Albert Herring, and the title role in Igor Stravinsky's The Nightingale (2004). In The New York Times review of the latter performance, Allan Kozinn wrote that "[Alattar] sang the Nightingale's music with beauty, suppleness and the right measure of flighty virtuosity."^[3]

Alattar was the New Horizon Scholar at the

Alattar made her professional opera debut in 2004 with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) as Sacagawea in the world premiere of Stephen Mager's Dream of the Pacific. Later that year she made her debut with the New York City Opera (NYCO) as the First Maid in Richard Strauss' Daphne. She has since returned to the NYCO as The Water in Rachel Portman's The Little Prince (2005)^[5] and as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni (2006).

In 2005 Alattar made her debut with the