With “much elegance and youthful tone” (Financial Times), mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey is increasingly lauded for her powerful stage presence and as “a complete dramatic presence with a voice as lustrous as it is molten” (Opera Magazine).

Hankey’s 2025-2026 season included house debuts with Staatsoper Berlin and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as multiple opera productions with Wiener Staatsoper and the Glyndebourne Festival. In concert, she appears at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, and alongside pianist Myra Huang with the Art Song Chicago and in her Cal Performances debut in Berkeley, California.

Recent seasons saw Hankey make debuts in leading roles at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Idomeneo), New National Theatre Tokyo (title role, Carmen), Bayerische Staatsoper (Octavian, Donna Elvira, Cherubino), Royal Opera House (Dorabella, Così fan tutte), Detroit Opera (Fox, The Cunning Little Vixen), and Lyric Opera of Kansas City (Santuzza, Cavalleria Rusticana). She performed as a soloist with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette (Met Live in HD) and Opernhaus Zürich as Dorabella in Così fan tutte. 

Hankey received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, followed by multiple prizes at the Glyndebourne Cup and Operalia Competitions, Grants from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, Grand Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, and more.