Hanna Celeste Lu's "pliable, floating, voice," as proclaimed by Opera News Magazine, has allowed her to enjoy a variety of singing engagements as a versatile coloratura soprano.  A Metropolitan Opera Audition District Winner, she has performed many leading opera roles such as Gretel and The Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, Calisto in Calisto, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Jester in Many Moons, Lucy in The Telephone, and the role of Anicia Eritea in the U.S. premiere of Cavalli's Eliogabalo, with the Aspen Opera Theater Center under the baton of the acclaimed British conductor, Jane Glover.

Lu loves opera but feels most at home singing baroque music, church music, and concert work.  She has been soprano soloist multiple times with the South Dakota Symphony performinig Vivaldi's Gloria, Handel's Psalm 112, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Handel's Messiah, Bach's St. John Passion, Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Bach's Cantata 51, Beethoven's Mass in C, Bach's B minor Mass and Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

She solos frequently with the baroque ensemble Mercury Houston, The Houston Chamber Choir, The Aspen Music Festival, The Masterworks Festival, Houston's Masterworks Chorus, da Camera of Houston, Cantare Houston, and for the first time with the Houston Choral Society in April of 2022 in Mozart's Requiem.  Lu was the soprano in Houston Grand Opera's educational outreach program, "Opera to Go," for four seasons, a member of the HGO Chorus for ninie seasons, and a member of the Grammy nominated ensemble, the Houston Chamber Choir for four seasons.  In addition to performing, she teaches Pre-K-12th grade music at Second Baptist School University Model, part-time homeschools her own children, and teaches 1st rade choir at Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, TX where she lives with her husband, Michael, and their two children Isaac and Lydia.