Hailed a "Standout" by Ted Medrek of the Boston Herald for her performance of Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Meredith Hansen has scored many successes, both domestically and internationally. In addition to receiving Grant Support from the prestigious Gerda Lissner Foundation, she was chosen for the Final Rounds of The 45th Annual Francisco Viñas Singing Contest in Barcelona, Spain, and awarded First Place Winner in the Charles Lynam Competition, the Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition, and the Opera Birmingham Competition (where she was also chosen as the Audience Favorite). Ms. Hansen has been a Regional Semi-Finalist and Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was the 2010 recipient of the Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence from the Boston Lyric Opera, which named her an Emerging Artist for their 2011-12 season.
2011-12 engagements include a concert at Boston’s Hatch Shell with the Landmarks Orchestra singing Tatyana, Rosina and Countess Almaviva; Carmina Burana with the Charlotte Symphony; Poulenc’s Gloria with the Plymouth Philharmonic; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Greensboro Symphony; Mozart’s Missa Brevis and an opera recital in Aiken, SC; and Beatrice in Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of The Inspector by John Musto.
During the 2010-11 season, Meredith Hansen was a featured performer with the Boston Lyric Opera’s Signature Series (alongside Opera Great Joyce Castle), and made her Opera Boston debut as Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio, for which she was deemed "a real find" by Opera Magazine (UK). Opera News Magazine stated: "As Marzelline, the jailer's daughter in love with Fidelio, soprano Meredith Hansen was a bright, clever presence, and the size and color of her voice matched the role perfectly. She succeeded where very few singers do, making perfect dramatic sense of a romantic comedy figure essentially stranded in this otherwise dark and serious work." She also made her role debut as Gretel in Boston Lyric Opera’s Hansel and Gretel. Other engagements included her Jordan Hall debut as Donna Anna in Rob Kapilow’s "What Makes It Great: Don Giovanni," as well as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Bozeman Symphony.