Hanna Hipp is a Polish lyric
mezzo-soprano.
Hipp trained at the
Stanisław Moniuszko in
Gdańsk, the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...
and the
National Opera Studio
The National Opera Studio in London, England was established in 1977 by the Arts Council as a link between the music colleges and the six main UK opera companies. It was resident at Morley College in Lambeth until 2003, when it gained use for t ...
.
Hipp was a member of
The Royal Opera
The Royal Opera is a British opera company based in central London, resident at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Along with the English National Opera, it is one of the two principal opera companies in London. Founded in 1946 as the Cove ...
's Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, and for the 2018/19 season she sings Hansel in Humperdinck's ''
Hansel and Gretel
"Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister.
Hansel ...
''.
She sang the title role in ''
Fantasio'' by Offenbach at the 2019
Garsington
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festival, one critic noting that along with her "good-humoured energy" she allowed her "plangent mezzo-soprano drive Fantasio's emotional journey".
[Mark Valencia. Report from Garsington. '']Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...
'', September 2019, Vol.70 No.9, p1173-74.
References
External links
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Hanna Hippat
Operabase
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Polish women opera singers
Operatic mezzo-sopranos
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