{"id":2277,"date":"2023-01-10T17:53:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:03:07","slug":"hanna-elisabeth-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/artists\/soprano\/hanna-elisabeth-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna-Elisabeth M\u00fcller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hanna-Elisabeth M\u00fcller, possessing \u201ca voice as if cut from crystal\u201d (Salzburger Nachrichten<\/em>) is considered in equal measure to be one of today\u2019s foremost interpreters of lied and concert repertoire, and one of the most sought-after operatic artists.\u00a0The soprano\u00a0made\u00a0her international\u00a0breakthrough at the 2014 Salzburg Easter Festival as\u00a0Zdenka\u00a0in Strauss\u2019\u00a0Arabella<\/strong><\/em>, co-starring with Ren\u00e9e Fleming and Thomas Hampson under the baton of Christian Thielemann. For this role, she was voted\u00a0\u201cYoung Artist of the Year\u201d by Opernwelt magazine. The production was subsequently released on DVD under United Classica in partnership with C Major.\u00a0M\u00fcller is a frequent guest of the world\u2019s leading opera houses and festivals, including the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Vienna Staatsoper,\u00a0the Metropolitan Opera, Dresden\u2019s Semperoper, Teatro alla\u00a0Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opernhaus Zurich, and the Salzburg Festival, among others.<\/p>\n

In the 2025\/26 season, Hanna-Elisabeth M\u00fcller takes on three major new productions at leading houses. She tours Japan with the Vienna State Opera, appearing at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan as the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro<\/em><\/strong>, conducted by Bertrand de Billy in Barrie Kosky\u2019s acclaimed staging. In the same role, she makes her company debut with the Paris Opera under Antonello Manacorda in a new production by Netia Jones. She returns to the Vienna State Opera as Vitellia in a new production of La clemenza di Tito<\/em><\/strong>, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado and directed by Jan Lauwers.<\/p>\n

On the concert stage, M\u00fcller joins the Wiener Symphoniker under Petr Popelka for Berg\u2019s Sieben fr\u00fche Lieder<\/em><\/strong> and appears in Paris with the Orchestre National de France and Philippe Jordan in Schumann\u2019s Das Paradies und die Peri<\/em><\/strong>. At the Salzburg Easter Festival, she performs Haydn\u2019s The Creation<\/em><\/strong> with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Daniel Harding. Further engagements include Beethoven\u2019s Missa Solemnis<\/em><\/strong> with Zubin Mehta and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra; Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2 \u201cResurrection\u201d<\/em><\/strong> in Utrecht with Karina Canellakis and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest; and a program combining Berg\u2019s Sieben fr\u00fche Lieder<\/em><\/strong> with Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 4<\/em><\/strong> in Palermo under Lothar K\u00f6nigs. At the Weiwuying International Music Festival in Taiwan, she presents a recital of Schumann\u2019s Liederkreis<\/em><\/strong> and Myrthen<\/em><\/strong> alongside Strauss Lieder and performs with Chien Wen-pin and the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra Strauss\u2019s Vier letzte Lieder<\/em><\/strong>. She also appears at Munich\u2019s Cuvilli\u00e9s-Theater for a Festspiel-Kammerkonzert devoted to Zemlinsky and Wagner, a program she later brings to Blaibach and Schloss Elmau for the Tage der Romantik festival.<\/p>\n

Highlights of recent seasons include acclaimed appearances on the stages of the world\u2019s most prestigious opera houses. At the Vienna State Opera, M\u00fcller sang Rosalinde in Strauss\u2019s Die Fledermaus<\/em><\/strong>, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro<\/em><\/strong>, the title role in Strauss\u2019s Daphne<\/em><\/strong> under Sebastian Weigle, and Eva in Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg<\/em><\/strong>. At the Staatsoper Berlin she appeared as Eva in Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg<\/em><\/strong> and as Elettra in Idomeneo<\/em><\/strong>. With the Bayerische Staatsoper, she was heard as Elettra in Idomeneo<\/em><\/strong> and as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni<\/em><\/strong>, a role she also performed in Barrie Kosky\u2019s staging in Vienna and in Robert Carsen\u2019s celebrated production at La Scala under Pablo Heras-Casado. At the Metropolitan Opera she made her debut as Marzelline in Fidelio<\/em><\/strong> before returning as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro<\/em><\/strong> and Pamina in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em><\/strong>. M\u00fcller\u2019s Zurich Opera debut came as Ilia in Idomeneo<\/em><\/strong>. From 2012 to 2016, she was a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble, appearing on international tours to Japan (Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em><\/strong>), Carnegie Hall New York (Der Rosenkavalier<\/em><\/strong>), and the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris.<\/p>\n

Hanna-Elisabeth M\u00fcller has collaborated on the concert stage with many of the world\u2019s foremost orchestras and conductors. Noteworthy engagements include Richard Strauss\u2019s Vier letzte Lieder<\/em><\/strong>, performed with Philharmonia Z\u00fcrich under Gianandrea Noseda, with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, at the CRR Concert Hall in Istanbul, in Bamberg under Christoph Eschenbach, and with the Staatskapelle Berlin. She was frequently heard as soprano soloist in Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2 \u201cResurrection\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, performing with Orchestre National de France under Cristian M\u0103celaru, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Daniel Harding, the Seoul Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden, and at the Philharmonie in Cologne. She also sang Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 4<\/em><\/strong> with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with whom she additionally performed Unsuk Chin\u2019s Alice in Wonderland<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Further highlights include Beethoven\u2019s Missa solemnis<\/em><\/strong> with the Munich Philharmonic under Philippe Herreweghe, Brahms\u2019s Ein deutsches Requiem<\/em><\/strong> in Z\u00fcrich, and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Stabat mater<\/em><\/strong> in Dresden under Marek Janowski. With Christian Thielemann she appeared in Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9<\/em><\/strong> both with the S\u00e4chsische Staatskapelle Dresden and in the 2023 Christmas Concert at Frauenkirche Dresden. She has sung Schumann\u2019s Faust Scenes<\/em><\/strong> with Daniel Harding and the Orchestre de Paris, Strauss\u2019s orchestral songs with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, and Berg\u2019s Sieben fr\u00fche Lieder<\/em><\/strong> with both the Berlin Philharmonic under Paavo J\u00e4rvi and in Helsinki.<\/p>\n

Additional appearances include Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9<\/em><\/strong> with the Academy of Bayerische Staatsoper and Vladimir Jurowski, Mozart\u2019s Requiem<\/em><\/strong> with Camerata Salzburg, and an opera gala concert with the W\u00fcrth Philharmoniker under Claudio Vandelli.<\/p>\n

A seasoned recitalist, M\u00fcller recently appeared with pianist Juliane Ruf and clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer at the Philharmonie K\u00f6ln, the Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling Festival, and other venues.<\/p>\n

Hanna-Elisabeth M\u00fcller is a Pentatone exclusive artist. Her debut album Traumgekr\u00f6nt<\/em> (2017), featuring songs by Strauss, Berg, and Sch\u00f6nberg, was followed by Reine de Coeur<\/em> (2020) with works by Schumann, Zemlinsky, and Poulenc. Her most recent release, Sinnbild<\/em> (2022), an all-Strauss program recorded live with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, was widely acclaimed. A longtime student of Rudolf Piernay, she has also benefited from masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady, Elly Ameling, and Thomas Hampson.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 CSAM, August 2025<\/p>\n

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Hanna-Elisabeth M\u00fcller, possessing \u201ca voice as if cut from crystal\u201d (Salzburger Nachrichten) is considered in equal measure to be one of today\u2019s foremost interpreters of lied and concert repertoire, and one of the most sought-after operatic artists.\u00a0The soprano\u00a0had\u00a0her international\u00a0breakthrough at the 2014 Salzburg Easter Festival as\u00a0Zdenka\u00a0in Strauss\u2019\u00a0Arabella, co-starring with Ren\u00e8e Fleming and Thomas Hampson under the baton of Christian Thielemann. For this role, she was voted\u00a0\u201cYoung Artist of the Year\u201d by Opernwelt magazine. The production was subsequently released on DVD under United Classica in partnership with C Major.\u00a0M\u00fcller is a frequent guest of the world\u2019s leading opera houses and festivals, including the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Vienna Staatsoper,\u00a0the Metropolitan Opera, Dresden\u2019s Semperoper, Teatro alla\u00a0Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opernhaus Zurich, and the Salzburg Festival, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soprano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11053,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/11053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}