Hannah Stephens
soprano
Lyric coloratura soprano Hannah Stephens resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her 6-year-old daughter, Amelia. Miss Stephens sang a stunning Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the New Mexico Philharmonic in 2017. She returned to the orchestra in March 2020 for Mozart’s Great Mass in c minor, and is now overjoyed to be with them once again for Orff’s incredible work Carmina Burana. Hannah’s successes in concert include Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, and Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras. With a voice known for its clarity and precision, she has become a favorite vocalist among several contemporary composers with whom she is now working on various new works.
Miss Stephens has the versatility to sing in a variety of styles and is equally at home on the operatic stage. Some past highlights of her operatic career include the roles of the Queen of the Night, Musetta, and Gilda. She has sung with West Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, and Lyric Opera of Weimar. After her debut of Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina with West Edge Opera, critic Victor Cordell for ForAllEvents wrote, “Hannah Stephens’s soprano is light and bright as Poppea. The opera is replete with challenging coloratura and staccato passages for which her voice is particularly effective.”
Born in the United Kingdom, Miss Stephens is a dual citizen and received her Master’s degree in vocal performance from Indiana University, studying with Carlos Montané, and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico, studying with Marilyn Tyler. She currently attends the University of New Mexico School of Law.
