about
The German soprano Hannah-Theres Weigl has been a member of the opera studio of the Wiener Staatsoper since the 2024/25 season, where she has been heard as Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Giannetta (L'elisir d'amore), Ida (Die Fledermaus) and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), among other roles. She opened her second season at the Haus am Ring with the OpernAir Gala in the Wiener Burggarten, followed by her debut as Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande). From the 2026/27 season she joins the ensemble of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and the Staatskapelle Weimar, where she will sing her role debuts as Musetta (La Bohème), Sophie (Werther) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).
In the summer of 2025 she took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburger Festspiele and sang the female title role of D'Artagnan in the world premiere of Musketiere!. In Vienna she was heard as Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and as Anna Reich (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. Further engagements took her to the Theater für Niedersachsen in 2022, where she sang Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Frasquita (Carmen).
During her bachelor studies at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium with Prof. Mag. Maria Erlacher-Forster she appeared as a guest in several productions at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, among them Mozart's Zauberflöte. Alongside opera she keeps up an active concert schedule, most recently at the Salzburger Festspiele with the Camerata Salzburg and the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, at the Wiener Konzerthaus for Christmas in Vienna 2024 with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, and with the Nürnberger Symphoniker. In May 2024 she made her debut at the Gluck Festspiele in the Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth.
She completed her studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Prof. KS Daniela Fally, complemented by lied interpretation with Prof. KS Angelika Kirchschlager. She also holds a degree in Music Business from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Musical roots
My musical roots go back to Adelheid Lang, who taught me with great patience, in a tiny garden house of the Erlangen music institute, how free singing can feel. To this day I am grateful to our neighbour and adopted grandfather Otto Schacher - a virtuoso brass player with a gift for improvisation - who once said to my mother: “There is something pure and fine in that little voice. It should be encouraged.” And so I got my lessons. My grandfather on my mother's side, Rudi Möhrle - the Tannenwirt of the Tonbach valley - once wanted to become an opera singer. Plainly put: he was not allowed to, but he sang all his life anyway. Two of his favourite songs, more about my grandfathers, what connects me with Gluck and who else did me good…
