British mezzo soprano Hanna-Liisa is an alumni of the National Opera Studio, and studies with soprano, Nelly Miricioiu. She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and ENO's Opera Works Programme. The 2019/20 season included a return to WNO as Woodpecker (The Cunning Little Vixen), a recital wth renowned soprano, Nelly Miricioiu, and participation in the IVC Bel Canto Masterclass. Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, all contracts in 2020 have been postponed until 2021. During the 2018/19 season, she sang Kate Pinkerton (Madame Butterfly) with Iford Arts, covered Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Helene (War & Peace) for Welsh National Opera (WNO), as well as Varvara (Katya Kabanova) with Scottish Opera. The 2017/18 season included Mayor's Wife in Katie Mitchell's staging of Jenufa for Grange Park Opera, the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice (Longborough Festival Opera), Flora in a new production of La Traviata (Nederlandse Reisopera), and Arsace (cover) in Händel’s Partenope at English National Opera. The 2016 season included an international debut with Dutch National Opera/Opera Zuid/Nederlandse Reisopera as Fidalma (Il Matrimonio Segreto), and UK debuts with Grange Park Opera as Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West), and with Longborough Festival Opera as Ruggiero (Alcina). On the concert platform, works include Beethoven's Mass in C, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Handel’s Messiah, Bach's Magnificat and St John Passion, Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle and Mozart’s Requiem.