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) with Iford Arts, covered Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Helene (War & Peace) for Welsh National Opera, as well as Varvara (Katya Kabanova) with Scottish Opera.
The 2017/18 season included Mayor's Wife in Katie Mitchell's staging of Jenufa for Grange Park Opera - in their inaugural season at their newly built theatre, the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice with Longborough Festival Opera, the role of Flora in a new production of La Traviata with the Nederlandse Reisopera, and she will cover the role of Arsace in Händel’s Partenope at English National Opera.
The 2016 season included an international debut with Dutch National Opera/Opera Zuid/Nederlandse Reisopera as Fidalma (Il Matrimonio Segreto) in March 2016, and UK debuts with Grange Park Opera as Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West), and with Longborough Festival Opera as Ruggiero (Alcina) in July/Aug 2016. 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 in RNCM excerpts included Helen (King Priam), Carmen (Carmen), Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw) Angelina (La Cenerentola), Emilia (Otello), Ottavia/Virtu (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Phoebe (Yeoman of the Guard), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Mistress Quickly (Falstaff), Mrs Kneebone (A Dinner Engagement), Mrs Herring (Albert Herring) and second shining one (The Pilgrim’s Progress). For ENO Opera Works: Orfeo (Gluck), Ruggiero (Alcina) and Annio (La Clemenza di Tito).
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 Hanna-Liisa has sung Old Nog (Tarka the Otter with Buxton Festival Opera), Junon (Acteon with DISS), 3rd Wild Goose/Poppet (Paul Bunyan with British Youth Opera 2013) and Ensemble (Orfeo at 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 Elsie Thurston Prize (2007), Alexander Young Prize (2008), The Eunice Pettigrew Prize (2009), The Annie Ridyard Scholarship (2010-12) The Amanda Roocroft prize (RNCM 2010), 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) with Iford Arts, covered Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Helene (War & Peace) for Welsh National Opera, as well as Varvara (Katya Kabanova) with Scottish Opera.
The 2017/18 season included Mayor's Wife in Katie Mitchell's staging of Jenufa for Grange Park Opera - in their inaugural season at their newly built theatre, the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice with Longborough Festival Opera, the role of Flora in a new production of La Traviata with the Nederlandse Reisopera, and she will cover the role of Arsace in Händel’s Partenope at English National Opera.
The 2016 season included an international debut with Dutch National Opera/Opera Zuid/Nederlandse Reisopera as Fidalma (Il Matrimonio Segreto) in March 2016, and UK debuts with Grange Park Opera as Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West), and with Longborough Festival Opera as Ruggiero (Alcina) in July/Aug 2016. 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 in RNCM excerpts included Helen (King Priam), Carmen (Carmen), Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw) Angelina (La Cenerentola), Emilia (Otello), Ottavia/Virtu (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Phoebe (Yeoman of the Guard), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Mistress Quickly (Falstaff), Mrs Kneebone (A Dinner Engagement), Mrs Herring (Albert Herring) and second shining one (The Pilgrim’s Progress). For ENO Opera Works: Orfeo (Gluck), Ruggiero (Alcina) and Annio (La Clemenza di Tito).
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 Hanna-Liisa has sung Old Nog (Tarka the Otter with Buxton Festival Opera), Junon (Acteon with DISS), 3rd Wild Goose/Poppet (Paul Bunyan with British Youth Opera 2013) and Ensemble (Orfeo at 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 Elsie Thurston Prize (2007), Alexander Young Prize (2008), The Eunice Pettigrew Prize (2009), The Annie Ridyard Scholarship (2010-12) The Amanda Roocroft prize (RNCM 2010), 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.
