AMERICAN MEZZO-SOPRANO
Lauded for her “elegance and youthful tone” (Financial Times) and “a complete dramatic presence with a voice as lustrous as it is molten” (Opera Magazine), mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey announces her 2024-2025 season, featuring a full slate of operatic roles, concert performances and recitals.
Highlights of Hankey’s 2024/2025 season include her highly anticipated debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in Mozart's Idomeneo and with New National Theater Tokyo in the title role of Carmen. Following critically acclaimed performances as Octavian in the 2023 Metropolitan Opera production of Der Rosenkavalier, Hankey reprises the role at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she also performs this season as Donna Elvira in a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as part of the 2025 Munich Opera Festival. In concert, Hankey is featured in a recital with two-time GRAMMY® nominee and pianist Myra Huang at The Kennedy Center, presented by Vocal Arts DC in a program of Schumann’s Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love).
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July 9, 2023
'PellEas et MElisande' brings royal intrigue to Santa Fe Opera
Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey will make her Santa Fe house and role debut singing Mélisande in Pélleas et Mélisande.
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Not seen at the Santa Fe Opera since 1977, Claude Debussy’s symbolist masterpiece opens on Saturday, July 15. The production stars mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as Mélisande.
February 8, 2023
Mezzo-Soprano Samantha Hankey to Join the Cast of DER ROSENKAVALIER at The Met
Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey will make her Met role debut singing Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.
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Der Rosenkavalier opens on March 27 with soprano Lise Davidsen as the Marschallin, soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, mezzo-soprano Katharine Goeldner as Annina, tenor René Barbera as the Italian Singer, tenor Thomas Ebenstein as Valzacchi, baritone Markus Brück as Faninal, and bass Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs. Simone Young conducts Robert Carsen's production.
June 30, 2022
INTERVIEW WITH
THE TELEGRAPH
In preparation for her Glyndebourne debut as Ruggiero in Alcina, Samantha Hankey reveals why playing
men gives her confidence, and why representation matters.
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"I find playing a man on stage incredibly empowering.
I really notice the amount of space I can take up. And the costumes are so much more comfortable. I’ve never been a fan of corsets.”
February 4, 2022
LA OPUS: THREE LADIES SPARKLE IN
SAN DIEGO COSI
LA Opus' Erica Miner Interviews Sarah Tucker, (Fiordiligi) Samantha Hankey, (Dorabella) and Alisa Jordheim (Despina).
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"San Diego Opera’s performance of Mozart’s Così fan tutte on Saturday, February 12, 2022, celebrates the Company’s safe return to the Civic Theatre since February of 2020 and the first time this opera has been presented by the Company since 2005. Three young American sopranos head the cast... All three, with their sparkling, youthful voices, are making names for themselves in major houses worldwide."
April 16, 2022
Cast Change in
Paris Opera’s ‘Cendrillon’
Samantha Hankey jumps into the role of Prince Charmant in “Cendrillon” at the Opéra National de Paris. This performance represents Hankey’s company debut.
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She joins a cast starring Tara Erraught, Daniela Barcellona, Kathleen Kim, Charlotte Bonnet, Marion Lebègue, Lionel Lhote, Philippe Rouillon, Cyrille Lovighi, Olivier Ayault, and Vadim Artamonov. Carlo Rizzi conducts.
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Listen to live radio broadcasts, video streams, and select performances from Ms. Hankey's appearances.
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