Hannah Schmidt-Ott was born in Berlin and discovered her passion for music at an early age. From 2007 to 2018 she was a member of the Children’s and Youth Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin, where she began her solo training in 2015.

Since 2019, she has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in the class of Prof. Britta Schwarz. She is a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin e.V., the Deutschlandstipendium, and the Richard Wagner Foundation Minden 2024.

At the Hanns Eisler School of Music, she appeared in the 2022 production of M. Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges under Rebekah Rota and sang Ilia in W. A. Mozart’s Idomeneo under Markus Stenz in 2024. In 2025 she will perform the role of Bubikopf in V. Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, as well as Adele in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus.

In 2023, Hannah Schmidt-Ott appeared in the collaborative project “Neue Szenen VI exposed” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and sang the role of Amital in W.A. Mozart’s Betulia Liberata in the same summer.

In spring 2024, she presented a versatile “Opera vs. Operetta” program with the Preußisches Kammerorchester with Jürgen Bruns and performed several concerts of the Christmas Oratorio with the Münchner Hofkapelle the following winter. She was also featured at the 2024 MOMENTUM Spring Festival in cooperation with the Barenboim-Said Academy.

As a guest artist, she performs annually at the Saarländisches Staatstheater.

Hannah Schmidt-Ott is a double finalist of the 2023 International Antonín Dvořák Competition in Karlovy Vary in the categories Opera and Song. She was additionally a finalist at the Vienna International Classical Singing Competition 2025 and is a prizewinner of the 2025 International Singing Competition Rheinsberg.

Her artistic development was shaped by her collaboration with Britta Schwarz, Thomas Quasthoff, Chen Reiss, Claudia Visca, Krassimira Stojanowa, Nadja Michael, Barbara Bonney, Wolfram Rieger, Caren van Oijen und Mara Kurotschka.