BIOGRAPHY

Mezzo-soprano Hanna Larissa Naujoks captivates audiences with her warm, expressive voice and powerful stage presence. She has established herself as a versatile artist in both the lyric and youthful dramatic repertoire and is distinguished by her keen sensitivity to complex, psychologically multifaceted characters.

Her career has been shaped by roles such as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Charlotte (Werther), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), and Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), which have taken her to renowned stages including Opéra Grand Avignon, the Glyndebourne Festival, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, and Theater Kiel.

Her role debut in Schönberg’s Erwartung under Patrick Hahn at Oper Wuppertal in 2024 was met with exceptional acclaim; Die Deutsche Bühne praised her in its season review as a “touching protagonist.” In November of the same year, she performed the role of Jitsuko Honda in Toshio Hosokawa’s chamber opera Hanjo at Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin. Most recently, she portrayed the Woman in Erwartung in a double bill at Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, where she also took on the title role in Gustav Holst’s chamber opera Sāvitrī.

After five years as a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Hannover, Hanna Larissa Naujoks has been working as a freelance artist since 2017, performing throughout Germany and other European countries. Her repertoire is steadily expanding toward more dramatic roles, including Marie (Wozzeck), Venus (Tannhäuser), Kundry (Parsifal), Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Judith (Herzog Blaubarts Burg), and Leonore (Fidelio).

She is also an active concert performer, appearing in works such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mendelssohn’s First Walpurgis Night, notably at Tiroler Festspiele Erl under Julia Jones. Further engagements have taken her to houses including Oper Leipzig, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Köln, Staatstheater Kassel, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, Theater Koblenz, and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.