Hanna Hipp

Polish mezzo-soprano Hanna Hipp was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2011-13. She made her Royal Opera debut as Emilia (Otello Act IV) in the Plácido Domingo Celebration and went on to sing roles including Flora Bervoix and Annina (La traviata), Emilia, Anna (Les Troyens), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Bianca (La rondine), and Les Nuits d'été and Jean (Le Portrait de Manon, Meet the Young Artists Week). She has returned to sing Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), and Hansel (Hansel and Gretel) and in the 2019/20 Season sings Ensemble/German Mother/Newspaper Seller (Death in Venice). 

Hipp studied at Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio. Since leaving the Programme her operatic engagements have included Frances Essex (Gloriana) for Teatro Real, Madrid, Clairon (Capriccio) and the title role of Fantasio for Garsington Opera, Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri) for Opéra de Montpellier, Beatrice (Beatrice and Benedict), Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and Isolier (Le Comte Ory) for Seattle Opera, Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) for Glyndebourne Festival and Minnesota Opera, Mercédès (Carmen) for La Scala, Milan, Varvara (Kát’a Kabanová) and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) for Scottish Opera, Cat/Squirrel (L’Enfant et les sortilèges) and Magdalene for Glyndebourne Festival and Page of Herodias (Salome) for Dutch National Opera. 

Hipp's concert engagements have included recitals throughout Europe, Les Nuits d’été with Orchestre de Chamber de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony no.9 with the Oslo Philharmonic and Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Rossweisse (Die Walküre) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Jurowski and Anna (Les Troyens) with Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, recorded for Warner Classics/Erato. She has also recorded a disc of songs by Pizzetti.