British mezzo soprano Hanna-Liisa is an alumni of the National Opera Studio, and studies with soprano, Nelly Miricioiu. She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and ENO's Opera Works Programme.
The 2019/20 season included a return to Welsh National Opera as Woodpecker The Cunning Little Vixen, a recital wth renowned soprano, Nelly Miricioiu, and participation in the IVC Bel Canto Masterclass. Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, all contracts in 2020 have been postponed until 2021.
The 2020/21 season hopefully brings Flora La Traviata, Siebel Faust and Mère Marie Dialogues des Carmelites with Orquesta Sinfónica de Zapopan in Mexico.
During the 2018/19 season, she sang Kate Pinkerton Madame Butterfly (Iford Arts), covered Tisbe La Cenerentola and Helene War & Peace (Welsh National Opera), as well as Varvara Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera).
The 2017/18 season included Mayor's Wife in Katie Mitchell's staging of Jenufa (Grange Park Opera), the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice (Longborough Festival Opera), the role of Flora in a new production of La Traviata (Nederlandse Reisopera), and Arsace (cover) in Händel’s Partenope (English National Opera).
The 2016 season included an international debut with Dutch National Opera/Opera Zuid/Nederlandse Reisopera as Fidalma Il Matrimonio Segreto, and UK debuts as Wowkle La Fanciulla del West (Grange Park Opera); Ruggiero Alcina (Longborough Festival Opera). She was the alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with Nederlandse Reisopera, at Le Carre Theatre in Amsterdam.
The 2015 season included the World Premiere of Nigel Osborne's "Bosnian Voices" with the Liverpool Philharmonic 10/10 Ensemble, an appearance with the Oxford Lieder Festival, and a return to Bayerische Staatsoper as Ensemble in Monteverdi's Orfeo. She was a 2015 Les Azuriales Young Artist, and a finalist in the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme auditions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Roles studied in full/in excerpts at National Opera Studio include Cenerentola La Cenerentola, Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Prince Charmant Cendrillon, 3rd Lady The Magic Flute, Frau Reich The Merry Wives of Windsor, Annio La Clemenza di Tito, Despina Cosi fan Tutte, Judy Punch and Judy and Fanny Price Mansfield Park.
Roles at RNCM included The Little Owl L’enfant et les sortileges, Glasha Katya Kabanova, Consuela West Side Story, second woman Dido and Aeneas (in collaboration with Manchester Camerata), Paquette Candide, Bacchis La Belle Helene, Cyrus Belshazzar, the cover role of Sesto La Clemenza di Tito, Mercedes Carmen, Mrs Herring Albert Herring, Xerxes Xerxes, Penelope Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and Masha Paradise Moscow. Externally, roles included Old Nog Tarka the Otter (Buxton Festival Opera), Junon Acteon (DISS), 3rd Wild Goose/Poppet Paul Bunyan (British Youth Opera) and Ensemble Orfeo (Bayerische Staatsoper 2014).
On the concert platform, works include Beethoven's Mass in C, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Handel’s Messiah, Bach's Magnificat and St John Passion, Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle and Mozart’s Requiem.
Awards have included The Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize for Singers (RNCM 2013), A Miriam Licette Scholarship administered by Musicians Benevolent Fund (2013) and an Opera Awards Foundation bursary (2013).
She has sung in master classes with Sarah Connolly, Joan Rodgers, Ryland Davies, Lynne Dawson, Patricia MacMahon, Nelly Miricioiu, Ann Murray DBE and Dame Felicity Palmer, and coached with David Gowland, Raul Gimenez, John Fisher, Steven Maughan, Michael Pollock and Della Jones.
The 2019/20 season included a return to Welsh National Opera as Woodpecker The Cunning Little Vixen, a recital wth renowned soprano, Nelly Miricioiu, and participation in the IVC Bel Canto Masterclass. Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, all contracts in 2020 have been postponed until 2021.
The 2020/21 season hopefully brings Flora La Traviata, Siebel Faust and Mère Marie Dialogues des Carmelites with Orquesta Sinfónica de Zapopan in Mexico.
During the 2018/19 season, she sang Kate Pinkerton Madame Butterfly (Iford Arts), covered Tisbe La Cenerentola and Helene War & Peace (Welsh National Opera), as well as Varvara Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera).
The 2017/18 season included Mayor's Wife in Katie Mitchell's staging of Jenufa (Grange Park Opera), the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice (Longborough Festival Opera), the role of Flora in a new production of La Traviata (Nederlandse Reisopera), and Arsace (cover) in Händel’s Partenope (English National Opera).
The 2016 season included an international debut with Dutch National Opera/Opera Zuid/Nederlandse Reisopera as Fidalma Il Matrimonio Segreto, and UK debuts as Wowkle La Fanciulla del West (Grange Park Opera); Ruggiero Alcina (Longborough Festival Opera). She was the alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with Nederlandse Reisopera, at Le Carre Theatre in Amsterdam.
The 2015 season included the World Premiere of Nigel Osborne's "Bosnian Voices" with the Liverpool Philharmonic 10/10 Ensemble, an appearance with the Oxford Lieder Festival, and a return to Bayerische Staatsoper as Ensemble in Monteverdi's Orfeo. She was a 2015 Les Azuriales Young Artist, and a finalist in the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme auditions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Roles studied in full/in excerpts at National Opera Studio include Cenerentola La Cenerentola, Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Prince Charmant Cendrillon, 3rd Lady The Magic Flute, Frau Reich The Merry Wives of Windsor, Annio La Clemenza di Tito, Despina Cosi fan Tutte, Judy Punch and Judy and Fanny Price Mansfield Park.
Roles at RNCM included The Little Owl L’enfant et les sortileges, Glasha Katya Kabanova, Consuela West Side Story, second woman Dido and Aeneas (in collaboration with Manchester Camerata), Paquette Candide, Bacchis La Belle Helene, Cyrus Belshazzar, the cover role of Sesto La Clemenza di Tito, Mercedes Carmen, Mrs Herring Albert Herring, Xerxes Xerxes, Penelope Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and Masha Paradise Moscow. Externally, roles included Old Nog Tarka the Otter (Buxton Festival Opera), Junon Acteon (DISS), 3rd Wild Goose/Poppet Paul Bunyan (British Youth Opera) and Ensemble Orfeo (Bayerische Staatsoper 2014).
On the concert platform, works include Beethoven's Mass in C, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Handel’s Messiah, Bach's Magnificat and St John Passion, Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle and Mozart’s Requiem.
Awards have included The Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize for Singers (RNCM 2013), A Miriam Licette Scholarship administered by Musicians Benevolent Fund (2013) and an Opera Awards Foundation bursary (2013).
She has sung in master classes with Sarah Connolly, Joan Rodgers, Ryland Davies, Lynne Dawson, Patricia MacMahon, Nelly Miricioiu, Ann Murray DBE and Dame Felicity Palmer, and coached with David Gowland, Raul Gimenez, John Fisher, Steven Maughan, Michael Pollock and Della Jones.
