BIOGRAPHY

Hanna Larissa Naujoks has recently established herself as a promising singer- actress in the Mezzo-Soprano- and young-dramatic „Zwischenfach“ repertoire, combining a warm, “powerful mezzo voice and clear high notes” (OMM) with “exciting intensity” (nmz) on stage.

In April 2024 she made a very successful role debut with Schoenberg's Erwartung conducted by Patrick Hahn and directed by Manuel Schmitt at the Wuppertal opera house, for which she was praised as a “touching protagonist” in the season review of the magazine DIE DEUTSCHE BÜHNE in the category “Special artistic achievements in music theater”.

She will portray the role of Eine Frau in Erwartung again from February 2025: in a double bill at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, where she will also take on the title role in the opera Sāvitri by Gustav Holst. In November 2024, she made her debut in the role of Jitsuko Honda in the chamber opera Hanjo by Toshio Hosokawa at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin.

After being a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera from 2012-2017, Hanna Larissa Naujoks has been working as a freelancer since 2017 and performs at numerous theaters all over Germany. Her repertoire includes Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Charlotte (Werther) and Hansel (Hansel and Gretel).

Other roles in preparation include Venus (Tannhäuser), Brangäne (Tristan and Isolde), Sieglinde (The Valkyrie), Marie (Wozzeck), Judith (Bluebeard's Castle) and Leonore (Fidelio).

In 2017, she covered the role of the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival. Most recently, she sang Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) at Theater Kiel, the Opéra Grand Avignon and the Oldenburg State Theatre, where she also appeared as Stewardess in Flight by Jonathan Dove and as Wellgunde (Das Rheingold) and Rossweiße (The Valkyrie). In concert, she sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Bergische Symphoniker and Mendelssohn's “Die erste Walpurgisnacht” in the opening concert of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl under the direction of Julia Jones.
She appeared as the Page (Salome) at the Leipzig Opera House and as Hansel at Theater Hagen. At the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck she embodied Charlotte in Werther and Lucretia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at the Staatstheater Nürnberg under the musical direction of Björn Huestege and the direction of Jens- Daniel Herzog. At the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin she impressed as Octavian, as Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Hansel and as Bersi in Andrea Chenier. At the Theater Koblenz she sang the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen.

At the Hanover State Opera, she has appeared in many lyric mezzo roles, such as Charlotte (Werther), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Marchesa Melibea (Il Viaggio à Reims) and Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana).

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