Biography

Coming to music at an early age through the study of violin and piano, soprano Hannah Noyes will return to the Estates Theatre in Prague this summer to make her debut as Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro where she has also sung Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She also debuted in the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon with Peabody Opera Theatre this fall. In early 2021, Hannah was seen in the short film German Romantics: Louise, a collaboration between The Pleiades Project and INvision Operahouse about Louise Reichardt.

An advocate for contemporary classical music, Hannah has been a vocalist in numerous world premieres. Last season, she premiered works by Elijah Daniel Smith and Jacob Wilkinson. In early 2020, she starred as Émilie in Peabody's Now Hear This presentation of Kaija Saariaho's Émilie. She created the role of the Younger Brother in A Madman’s Diary by Jun An Chew in April 2019 when she was part of Peabody's Opera Etudes program where she also performed in previews for new vocal works, including a monodrama for soprano during the fall of 2018. Hannah was also part of the premier of René Clausen's Passion of Jesus Christ conducted by the composer at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, MN in April 2017.

During the 2019-2020 season, she performed Tatiana from Eugene Onegin and Lisette from La rondine with Peabody Opera Theatre. Between 2018-2019, Hannah made her Peabody Opera debut in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi and in Bernstein's MASS under the baton of Marin Alsop. Hannah appeared in the inaugural season of the Concordia Opera as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, where she also performed in scenes from Falstaff (Alice Ford) and Candide (Cunegonde). In 2018, Hannah attended SongFest in Los Angeles as a Colburn Fellow where she was featured in recital performing Arnold Schoenberg’s Brettl-lieder.

She has also been seen in Italy at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in scenes as Violetta in La traviata and at the Torre dei Calzolari in Gubbio as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. At W. Stephen Smith’s Naked Voice Institute, Hannah portrayed the partial role of Zdenka from Strauss’s Arabella.

Hannah received her Bachelor of Music in Voice, magna cum laude, from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, and her Masters in Voice studying under Ah Young Hong at Johns Hopkins University-Peabody Institute where she received the George Castelle Memorial Award and was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. She graduated with a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody in May 2023 studying with Randall Scarlata. Hannah lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her two cats, where she enjoys cooking and tending her house plants.