INTRODUCTION

Hanne Fischer, Knight of the Dannebrog, is a much sought-after Danish mezzo-soprano: at home, where she frequently performs at the Royal Danish Opera and abroad. Her strong presence of expression is often highlighted. Her role interpretations range from baroque to Wagner to contemporary music.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

Recent engagements at the Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen include, among others: Larina/Eugene Onegin, Brangäne/Tristan und Isolde, Serena Joy/The Handmaid’s Tale, Fricka/Die Walküre, Pelageya/Nose, Marthe/Faust, Magdelone/Maskarade, Auntie/Peter Grimes, 3rd Maid/Elektra

In the 2024/2025 season at the Royal Danish Opera, she performed as La Frugola/Il Tabarro, La Badessa/Suor Angelica, and La Ciesca/Gianni Schicchi in Puccini’s Il Trittico, and Magdalena/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. She also joined the Royal Summer Opera tour in summer 2024 and performed in the Royal Danish Opera’s New Year’s concert in December 2024.

In the 2025/2026 season, Hanne Fischer will take on the roles of Giovanna/Rigoletto and Mère Marie/Dialogues des Carmélites at the Royal Danish Opera.

Among Hanne’s other notable recent and future engagements are: Larina/Eugene Onegin at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet; Fricka/Die Walküre at the Greek National Opera in Athens; Niels W. Gade’s romantic cantata Elverskud with the Copenhagen Phil; Duruflé’s Requiem and a Danish Opera Gala with the Aarhus Symfoniorkester; Duruflé’s Requiem with the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir; Verdi’s Requiem with the Copenhagen Cantate Choir.

BIOGRAPHY

Past engagements of Hanne Fischer in recent years include Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking at the Opera in Copenhagen (she has received a great amount of star reviews), Waltraute in the concert performance of Götterdämmerung in Odense, under the direction of Alexander Vedernikov and Blanca/The Exterminating Angel at Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen in 2018.

At the Royal Opera House Copenhagen, she has performed many roles, such as  The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Melibea in Journey to Reims, Charlotte in Werther, Penelope in Odysseus, Ottavia in Poppea’s Coronation, and La Frugola in Puccini’s Il Tabarro, and also Carmen.

During the period 1993-1997, Hanne Fischer was part of the ensemble at Opera Kiel. She also performed at Glyndebourne Festival in England, at Staatsoper Berlin, Hamburger Staatsoper, Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, and at Théâtre de Champs-Élysées.

Since 2005, when the Royal Danish Opera inaugurated its new waterside Opera House in Copenhagen, she was among the first performers in the world premiere of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, composed by Poul Ruders and dedicated to Hanne Fischer.

After her success as Fricka in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Valkyrie in Strasbourg, Hanne Fischer debuted in 2011 as Waltraute in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung under the direction of David McVicar. She received great critical acclaim from international opera magazines, who all praised her unique voice character with poignant expression abilities, and also her strong role interpretation.

As a concert singer, Ms. Fischer has performed with all major Danish Orchestras and internationally in the big concert halls in Amsterdam, München, Berlin, Paris, and London.  In 2009, on the 60th birthday of the European Council, she performed Mahler’s 3rd Symphony under the direction of Marc Albrecht. She has also performed with many other great conductors, such as Daniel Barenboim, Andrew Davis, Mark Elder, Marko Letonja, Mark Minkowski, Giancarlo Andretta, Hartmut Haenchen, Manfred Honeck, Michael Jurowski, Ton Koopman, Susanna Mälkki, Leif Segerstam, Michael Schönwandt, Yuri Temirkanov, Alexander Vedernikov, Carlo Rizzi, and Kirill Petrenko.

Her discography includes CDs with The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Lehar’s Tatjana) and Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.  She also performs Verdi’s Requiem in a recording of Trinitatis Kantori og Orkester.

On DVD, she performs in the production of Wagner’s Ring, Carl Nielsen’s Masquerade, and also in Selma Jezkova (Dancer in the Dark) by Poul Ruders.

AWARDS

Ms. Fischer has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Noilly Prat Price in 1993, the Elisabeth Dons Memorial Award in 1995, the Danish Music Critics Artist Award in 2004, the Holger Bruusgaard Award of the Royal Orchestra in 2007, and the Axel Schiøtz Award in 2010. She has been nominated many times for the Reumert award with her performances of Sextus in Mozart’s Titus, Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydice, and Händel’s Jephta. In 2014, she received the Ellen Gilbert scholarship.

OPERA    

                                                                                                                                                                       

Delius, F. A Village Romeo and Juliet Wild girl
Gluck, C.W. Orfeo ed Euridice Orfeo
Gounod, C. Faust Siebel
Humperdinck, E. Hänsel und Gretel Hänsel
Janacek, L. The Cunning Little Vixen the fox
Korngold, E.W. Die tote Stadt Lucienne
Lehar, F. Tatjana Raisa
Ligeti, G. Le grand macabre Amando (Spermando)
Massenet, J. Werther Charlotte
Monteverdi, C. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria Penelope
L’incoronazione di Poppea Ottavia
Mozart, W.A. Cosi fan tutte Dorabella
Die Zauberflöte Zweite Dame
Don Giovanni Zerlina
Idomeneo Idamante
La clemenza di Tito Annio
Sesto
Le nozze di Figaro Cherubino
Nielsen, C. Maskerade Pernille
Offenbach, J. La Perichole La Perichole
Les contes d’Hoffmann The Voice
Nicklausse
Poulenc, F. Dialogues des Carmélites Mère Marie
Prokofiev, S. L’amour des trois oranges Smeraldina
Puccini, G. Madama Butterfly Suzuki
Rossini, G. Il viaggio a Reims Marchesa Melibea
La Cenerentola Angelina (Cenerentola)
Le comte Ory Isolier
Ruders, P. Kafka’s Trial Washer Woman
Hunchback
The Handmaid’s Tale Serena Joy
Schönberg, A. Moses und Aron Solostimme II
3. Jungfrau
Strauss, R. Ariadne auf Naxos The composer
Der Rosenkavalier Octavian
Salome Page
Tchaikovsky, P.I. Eugene Onegin Larina
Pikovaya dama Polina
Verdi, G. Rigoletto Giovanna
Wagner, R. Das Rheingold Flosshilde
Fricka
Die Walküre Waltraute
Fricka
Götterdämmerung Second Norn
Waltraute
Tristan und Isolde Brangäne

 

CONCERT

 

Bach, J.S. Johannes-Passion
Magnificat
Matthäus-Passion
Weihnachtsoratorium
Beethoven, L.v. C major Mass
Symphony no. 9
Berlioz, H. Les nuits d’ete
Britten, B. The Rescue of Penelope
Duruflé, M. Requiem
Dvorak, A. Requiem
Stabat Mater
Fauré. G. Requiem
Gade, N.W. Elverskud
Händel, G.F. Messiah
Haydn, J. Harmoniemesse
Langgaard, R. Sfærernes Musik
Mahler, G. Das Lied von der Erde
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Kindertotenlieder
Rückert-Lieder
Mozart, W.A. Alma grande e nobil core
Ch’io mi scordi di te?
Coronation Mass
Requiem
Vesperale solennes de confessores
Nordby, E. Rilke-Lieder
Pape, A. Vølvens spådom
Rosing-Schow, N. Archipel des Solitudes
Rossini, G. Petite messe solennelle
Stabat Mater
Ruders, P. Shakespeare Songs
Schumann, R. Des Sängers Fluch
Vom Pagen und der Königstochter
Sibelius, J. Orchestral Lieder
The Tempest
Vivaldi, A. Gloria

AUDIO & VIDEO

Hanne Fischer – Die Walküre by R. Wagner – Act II Duet (Excerpt) – Mar. 2022

Hanne Fischer – Götterdämmerung by R. Wagner – Höre mit Sinn

REVIEWS

Die Walküre at the Greek National Opera, Athens – March 2024

“Für die zweite Hälfte der Aufführungsserie war Hanne Fischer als Fricka aufgeboten. Ihr Mezzosopran klang weniger üppig als derjenige von Marina Prudenskaya, er beeindruckte aber mit schönem, dramatischen Ton und sicherer Führung. Fischer sang textverständlicher als Prudenskaya und ihre Artikulation der Wagnerschen Verse war schlichtweg grossartig. Hanne Fischers Auftritt als Fricka war ein Höhepunkt des Abends.”
– Ingo Starz, onlinemerker.com

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