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Hanneke van Bork was born in 1931 at Amsterdam. She made her
opera debut on March 10th 1955 at the De Nederlandse Reisopera
with the chamber opera Het verzwegen huwelijk/ Il matrimonio
segreto from Domenico Cimarosa. She sang the role of Carolina.
Her career was further mainly abroad. She sang at the opera houses
of Biel, Innsbruck, Graz and Braunschweig. From 1962 until 1966
she was engaged to the Stadtheater von Basel. In 1968
she appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival in Cavalli's
L'Ormindo. Decca made a recording of this performance.
Van Bork sang also in guest appearances at the Nederlandse
Opera and sang at the Holland Festival. In 1968 she
sang the role of Pamina at the Nederlandse Operastichting
in a performance of Mozart's The magic flute. In this
performance were the other artists a.o. Cristina Deutekom (The
Queen of the Night), Marco Bakker (Papageno), Pieter van den
Berg (Sarastro), Andor Kaposy (Tamino) and Ans Philippo (Papagena).
Hanneke van Bork performed in the period 1968 to 1981 in The
Netherlands a.o. the following roles: Sicle (L'Ormindo, Cavalli),
Micaele (Carmen, Bizet), Elsa von Brabant (Lohengrin, Wagner),
Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte, Mozart), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni,
Mozart). She gave at the end of her career during a short period
also singing lessons at the Conservatory of Utrecht. Afterwards
she only kept herself occupied with some singing lessons and
recitals.
Her repertoire enclosed a great number of roles and there
exists several recordings of them, a.o. a Decca release of Die
Zauberflöte/ The magic flute, with Dietrich Fischer
Dieskau and Cristina Deutekom. Conductor is Georg Solti. Decca
made also in Glyndebourne a recording of Pietro Francesco Cavalli's
L'Ormindo with Hanneke van Bork as Sicle. At the same
time there are recordings of her with works by Bach.
Hanneke van Bork died on May 3th 2003 in Utrecht, shortly before
her fifty years wedding-feast.
Sources: a.o.
Rudi Van den Bulck, B. Goudsmit-Van Bork
 J.S.Bach, Magnificat BWV 243, Et
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