|
The American mezzo-soprano, Hannah Conoley Ludwig, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from the University of the Pacific. In 2018 she graduated of the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts (2014-2018), at which she sang a host of roles that include Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri (November 2014), Charlotte in Werther (February 2016), Maddalena in Rigoletto (November 2016), Fricka in Das Rheingold (January 2018), Azucena in Il trovatore (November 2017), Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos (February-March 2017) , Dritte Dame in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (April-May 2017), and the Nurse in The Demon (December 2016). With the Aspen Music Festival, she performed Ursule in Béatrice et Bénédict conducted by Johannes Debus (summer 2016) and Sesto in W.A. Mozart's La clemenza di Tito led by Maestro Jane Glover (summer 2017). She received further training from the Taos Opera Institute, Napa Music Festival, and Classical Lyric Arts in France. She recently won second place in the 2018 Loren L Zachary Society for the Performing Arts Vocal Competition. She has received encouragement awards from the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Gulf Coast Region, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini International Vocal Competition. She is also a grant winner of the Giulio Gari Vocal competition.
The New York Times calls Hannah Ludwig “best in show” and further exclaims “Her tone chocolaty and large, yet with focus and agility, she captured the integral aspect of bel canto…expression emerging from a long, intelligently shaped musical line.” Concert appearances in 2017 included George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (December 2017) as well as W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Forrest’s Requiem for the Living with MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall (May 2017). Role debuts in 2018-2019 season in the bel canto repertoire include Pippo in La gazza ladra (summer 2019) and Isaura in Tancredi (summer 2018) with Teatro Nuovo, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Annapolis Opera (October-November 2018), and Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Philadelphia (September 2018). On the concert stage, she sang her first performances of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with the Colorado Symphony (April 2019) and W.A. Mozart's Requiem with the Columbus Symphony (March 2019), both under the baton of Rossen Milanov, and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Flint Symphony Orchestra (May 2019).
In the 2019-2020 season, Hannah Ludwig sang her first performances of Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena with Baltimore Concert Opera (February-March 2020) and returned to Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte in her company debut with Dallas Opera (October-November 2019). Unfortunately, her debut with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón G. Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (June 2020) was also cancelled in the wake of COVID-19.
In the 2020-2021 season, Hannah Ludwig returns to Teatro Nuovo as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia in the first in-person opera production in New York City since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She sings the same role earlier in the season in a made-for-digital production with Opera Louisiane and is presented in “Songs from a Distance,” a recital featuring Schubert, Argento, Boyle, and Musto as well as a series of outdoor concerts by Opera Delaware and Baltimore Concert Opera. Among her performances next season are G.F. Handel’s Messiah with the Columbus Symphony - originally scheduled for this season - and her debut with Portland Opera as the District Attorney in Davis’ Central Park Five.
Her scheduled performances of Szymanowski’s Stabat mater with Gianandrea Noseda conducting the National Symphony Orchestra have been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be scheduled in a future season, as were a third Rossini role debut with Teatro Nuovo, Calbo in Maometto II and her international debut in a solo program of bel canto repertoire originally written for the castrato fact with the Bochumer Symphoniker. She currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
|
