BIOGRAPHY

The German mezzo-soprano Hanna Larissa Naujoks is praised above all for her "warm, seductive timbre" (Opera Online), her "voice rich in overtones and carrying" and her "convincing and committed performance on stage" (Olyrix).

In the 2023/24 season she will make her role debut with Schönberg's Erwartung under the baton of Patrick Hahn at the Oper Wuppertal. She returns to the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater as Rossweiße (Die Walküre), where she also debuts as Stewardess in Flight by Jonathan Dove. On the concert stage, she will sing Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Bergische Symphoniker conducted by Daniel Huppert and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang in the Gedächtniskirche Speyer with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

In the 2022/23 season she sang Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, and Wellgunde (Das Rheingold) and Rossweiße (Die Walküre) in the first complete „Ring“ in Oldenburg. She also made her debut as Octavian at the Opéra Grand Avignon, as Page (Salome) at the Oper Leipzig, and appeared as Hänsel at the Theater Hagen.
She most recently was invited to the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck to sing Charlotte in Werther and made her successful debut as Lucretia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at the Staatstheater Nürnberg in 2021.

From 2012 to 2017 she was permanently engaged at the Staatsoper Hannover, where she sang Charlotte in Werther, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Annio in La Clemenza di Tito, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Olga in Eugen Onegin, Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marchesa Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims and Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, among others.

She has been freelancing since 2017, first covering the role of the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival.

She impressed as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, where she also appeared as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Hänsel and Bersi in Andrea Chenier. At the Theater Koblenz she sang the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen.

She has also made guest appearances at the Semperoper Dresden, Oper Köln, Staatstheater Kassel, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and at the theaters in Aachen, Braunschweig, Dortmund and Würzburg.

Hanna Larissa Naujoks comes from Villingen in the Black Forest.
She received her training at the music academies of Nuremberg and Hanover. She also attended master classes with Hedwig Fassbender, Brigitte Fassbaender, Kiri Te Kanawa, Hans-Peter Blochwitz and Julie Kaufmann.

Immediately after her studies she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Oper Köln. Hanna Larissa Naujoks is a prize-winner of the singing competition of the Schlossoper Haldenstein in Switzerland, as well as a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation "Live Music Now" Franken and the Richard Wagner Association Hanover.