Temple Hammen, American lyric soprano, is currently based in Chicago and Frankfurt am Main. In 2022, Temple sang Annina in La Traviata with South Bend Lyric Opera and South Bend Symphony Orchestra. She also sang her role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with South Bend Lyric Opera. Temple was featured as a recitalist in the “Composed by Women'' festival at Indiana University, a festival dedicated to exclusively performing and exploring works composed by women. She performed works by Clara Schumann, Amy Beach and Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová. As a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at Songfest, she performed the world premiere of Sheila Silver's If Trees Could Talk and Schubert-Liederabend with Graham Johnson.

Other role credits and scenes include: Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dafne in La Dafne, Adina in Elisir D´Amore (Mannes Opera), Hero in Béatrice et Bénédict (Classic Lyric Arts), Iolanthe in Iolanthe, Filia in Carissimi’s Jephta, Un Patré in L'enfant Et Les Sortilèges, and Una Conversa in Suor Angelica (Westminster Opera Theater).

As an avid oratorio and concert soloist, Temple was to make her Lincoln Center debut as Voice 2 in Steve Reich’s Tehillim (COVID cancellation). She performed as a soloist in the first American production of Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl (Spoleto Festival USA), and has also been seen in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Spoleto Festival USA), Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Mannes Sounds Festival) Beethoven Choral Fantasy (Westminster Choir), Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes, and Bach’s Wachet Auf (Calvary Episcopal Church), Handel’s Messiah (St. John on the Mountain).

Temple received her M.M in Vocal Performance from Mannes School of Music and B.M in Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College where she toured and performed with the awarded Westminster Choir. Temple also studied at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she received a Deutsches Sprachzertifikat.