Samantha Hankey
Special guest
Lauded for her “elegance and youthful tone” (Financial Times) and “a complete dramatic presence with a voice as lustrous as it is molten” (Opera Magazine), mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey announces her 2024-2025 season, featuring a full slate of operatic roles, concert performances and recitals.
Highlights of Hankey’s 2024/2025 season include her highly anticipated debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in Mozart's Idomeneo and with New National Theater Tokyo in the title role of Carmen. Following critically acclaimed performances as Octavian in the 2023 Metropolitan Opera production of Der Rosenkavalier, Hankey reprises the role at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she also performs this season as Donna Elvira in a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as part of the 2025 Munich Opera Festival. In concert, Hankey is featured in a recital with two-time GRAMMY® nominee and pianist Myra Huang at The Kennedy Center, presented by Vocal Arts DC in a program of Schumann’s Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love)
Samantha Hankey has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Samantha Hankey - Mezzo-Soprano
7 February 2025 | 52 mins 43 secs
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In this episode of the OperaBiz podcast, Daniel Welch and mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey discuss the complexities of balancing a demanding opera career with personal wellbeing. They explore the evolution of careers, the challenges of learning multiple roles, the importance of language in performance, and the dynamics of live theater. The conversation also delves into mental health, the necessity of taking breaks, and the joys and challenges of traveling as an artist.
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Episode 1010: Samantha Hankey
25 March 2019 | 39 mins 1 sec
Get to know one of the Met's up and coming mezzos, on stage for 6 roles this 2018-2019 season: Samantha Hankey. We talk about juggling multi-role prep, her musical background, and collaborating on new music.