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Peter Hoare

Tenor

  • Renowned for his versatility and his musicianship, Peter Hoare has carved his name internationally with spectacular performances of 20th-century and contemporary opera, making his Metropolitan Opera debut as Hauptmann Wozzeck followed by Shapkin From the House of the Dead. His repertoire extends to Desportes Die Soldaten, Larry King Anna Nicole and Sharikov The Dog’s Heart, with recent roles at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden including Mortimer Lessons in Love and Violence, Fatty Rise and Fall of Mahagonny and Dr Caius Falstaff.

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  • Peter Hoare was born in Bradford and initially trained as a percussionist, before making his debut as a singer at Welsh National Opera where his many roles include Herod Salome, Mal in James MacMillan The Sacrifice (world premiere) and Alwa Lulu The Jailer/Grand Inquisitor Il Prigioniero and The Magician/Nika Magdoff The Consul. Also a regular at English National Opera, his roles here include Laca Jenůfa, Zinovy Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Faust The Damnation of Faust, Hermann Queen of Spades and Orpheus Man in Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus. Other UK appearances include Boris Káťa Kabanová for Opera Holland Park and Laca Jenůfa for Grange Park Opera’s opening season at the newly built Theatre in the Woods at West Horsley Place. During the curtailed 2020-21 season, Peter performed Frederic in Alex Woolf/David Pountney A Feast of Time and Plague for Grange Park Opera, the only new opera to have been commissioned during the Covid-19 pandemic.


    On the international stage, Hoare's roles include Hauptmann at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Shapkin at the Opéra National de Paris and La Monnaie, Alviano Salvago in Schreker Die Gezeichneten at the Komische Opera Berlin and in Palermo, Sharikov for Die Nationale Opera, Amsterdam, La Scala, English National Opera and Opéra de Lyon, Desportes for Opernhaus Zürich and in David Pountney’s production at the Ruhr Triennale, at the New National Theatre Tokyo and at the Lincoln Center in New York.  Other appearances include Mortimer in Hamburg, Amsterdam and Lyon, and his debut as Captain Vere in Annilese Miskimmon’s acclaimed production of Billy Budd for Den Norske Opera in Oslo. He has sung Frère Elie in Saint François d’Assise for the Staastoper Hamburg, Witch Hänsel und Gretel in Amsterdam, Creon Thebans in Bonn and at ENO, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Lyon. 


    On the concert platform, Hoare has appeared with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of Kurt Weill Seven Deadly Sins and Das Berliner Requiem in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of John Adams The Gospel According to the Other Mary, recorded as part of the orchestra’s multi-disc box set ‘The John Adams Edition’. Last season he sang Zinovy in Shostakovich Lady Macbeth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Andris Nelsons at Boston’s Symphony Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Recent appearances with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks include Schoenberg Gurrelieder in 2024 and Mime in Wagner Siegfried on tour to Munich, Hamburg and Luxembourg in 2023. He has sung Piet le Pot in Ligeti Le Grand Macabre at Bucharest’s Enescu Festival with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Arnaud Arbet and in a co-production with the London Symphony Orchestra. He appeared at the 2017 BBC Proms singing Gurrelieder with the LSO, and at the 2016 Proms with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Tippett A Child of Our Time. Further performances include Britten Nocturne (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Das Lied von der Erde (Harding/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic), Janacek The Diary of One who Disappeared and Elliot Carter In sleep in thunder with Contrechamps in Geneva and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette (Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra), Verdi Requiem (RLPO), La Damnation de Faust and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Bochumer Symphoniker), Elgar Spirit of England and La Damnation de Faust at the Three Choirs Festival, Mahler 8th Symphony (Elder/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hallé) and performances of The Cunning Little Vixen with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle. 


    Hoare's discography includes Wagner Siegfried with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks on BR Klassik; Delius Song of the High Hills and Master of Ceremonies in Britten Gloriana conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras for Decca Records; Tichon Káťa Kabanová with Carlo Rizzi, and Bardolfo Falstaff with Sir Colin Davis for Chandos; and Leonard Meryll Yeomen of the Guard with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera for the Telarc label. 
     
    Highlights of Hoare's 2024-25 season include a return to La Monnaie as Mime, his debut at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples as Gamekeeper Rusalka, title role The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at the Staatsoper Berlin and in concert performances at London’s Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Simon Rattle, Herodes Salome at the Hamburg State Opera and Hauptmann Wozzeck in semi-staged performances at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra cond. Alan Gilbert. Future plans include returns to Covent Garden and his house debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.  

    2024/25 season / 853 words. Not to be altered without permission.

Performances

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Concert repertoire

ADAMS
The Gospel According To The Other Mary 


BACH
St Matthew Passion
St John Passion
Christmas Oratorio
Mass In B Minor 


BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 


BERLIOZ 
La Damnation de Faust
Romeo Et Juliette
Grand Messe De Morts
Requiem 


BRITTEN
Serenade For Tenor, Horn & Strings
St Nicholas
Les Illumination
War Requiem
Songs Of The High Hills 


ELGAR
Dream Of Gerontius 


FINZI
Intimations Of Immortality 


GOUNOD
Messe Solennelle 


HANDEL
Messiah 


HAYDN
Nelson Mass
Creation 


JANÁCEK 
Diary Of One Who Disappeared 


MAHLER
8th Symphony 


MENDELSSOHN
Elijah 


MOZART
Requiem
Mass in C Minor 


PUCCINI
Messa di Gloria 


RACHMANIOV 
The Bells 


SCHOENBERG 
Gurrelieder (Waldemar) 


TIPPETT 
Child Of Our Time 


VERDI
Requiem 


WEILL 
Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny

Opera repertoire

ANDERSON 
The Thebans (Creon) 


BENJAMIN
Lessons In Love And Violence (Mortimer) 


BERG 
Wozzeck (Hauptmann)
Lulu (Alwa) 


BERLIOZ 
Damnation de Faust (Faust) 


BOITO 
Mefistofele (Nereo, Wagner) 


BRITTEN 
Albert Herring (Mr Upfold)
Rape Of Lucretia (Male Chorus)
Gloriana (Master Of Ceremonies)
Billy Budd (Vere)
Peter Grimes (Bob Boles) 


DALLAPICCOLA
Il Prigoniero (Gaoler/Inquisitor) 


DONIZETTI
Belisario (Eutropio)
Lucia Di Lammermoor (Normanno) 


GIORDANO
Andrea Chenier (Abbé) 


HUMPERDINCK
Hänsel Und Gretel (Witch) 


JANÁCEK
Kat’a Kabanovâ (Tikhon)
Makropulos Case (Gregor/Vitek)
Cunning Little Vixen (Schoolmaster)
Jenufa (Laca)
House Of The Dead (Shapkin)
The Excursions of Mr Br ouček (MatějBrouček) 


LIGETI
Le Grand Macabre (Piet The Pot) 


MARTINU 
Julietta (Michel) 


MONTEVERDI 
L’incoronazione Di Poppea (Arnalta) 


MOZART 
Idomeneo (Idomeneo, Arbace)
La clemenza di Tito (Tito)
Le nozze di Figaro (Curzio, Basilio)
Die Zauberflöte (Monastatos)
Die Entführung (Pedrillo) 


MUSSORGSKY 
Boris Godunov (Shuisky, Simpleton)
Khovanshchina (Golitsyn) 


NONO
Al gran sole carico d’amore (Thiers) 


PROKOFIEV 
Betrothal In A Monastery (Brother Elusaf)​
 
PUCCINI 
Madama Butterfly (Goro)
Manon Lescaut (Il Maestro Di Ballo)
Turandot (Pong, Pang) 


RASKATOV 
A Dog’s Heart (Sharikov) 


RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Tsar’s Bride (Bomelius) 


SCHREKER
Die Gezeichneten (Alviano) 


SHOSTAKOVICH
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Zinovy) 


STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Bacchus)
Salome (Herod)
Der Rosenkavalier (Valzacchi)
Elektra (Aegisthus) 


STRAVINSKY 
The Rake’s Progress (Sellem) 


TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin (Monsieur Triquet)
Pique Dame (Hermann/Tchekalinsky)
Iolanta (Vaudemont) 


TURNAGE
Anna Nicole (Larry King) 


VERDI 
La Traviata (Gastone)
Falstaff (Bardolfo/Caius) 


WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde (Der Hirt)
Der Fliegende Holländer (Steuermann)
Tannhäuser (Heinrich Der Schreiber)
Siegfried (Mime) 


WEILL
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Fatty) 


ZIMMERMANN 
Die Soldaten (Desportes)

"Tenor Peter Hoare also shines, with a very lively and theatrical interpretation of the blacksmith. Mime's cries of despair sound loud and poignant, testifying to a powerfully displayed vocal mastery."

Soline Heurtebise, Olyrix, 25 October 2023

"The Mime of Peter Hoare is truly excellent-sung throughout with minimum “sprechgesang”, interpreted brilliantly as the nasty, fearful and vengeance bent character the work suggests, and if at times it is a little over the top in exaggerated yelps and squawks it can be forgiven as this apparently worked very well in the concert setting and was very well received in the reviews immediately following. It seems to be the custom now to eliminate the humour-such as it was- Wagner intended in the interchanges between Mime and Siegfried, though some does creep back in to the scene between Mime and the Wanderer. I find it to be a superb performance worthy of rank alongside Stolze, Herold Kraus, Heinz Zednik and Graham Clark."

Stewart Crowe, Amazon, 6 October 2023

Intermusica represents Peter Hoare worldwide

Camilla Wehmeyer
Associate Director, Vocal & Opera

cwehmeyer@intermusica.com

Mary Donald
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera

mdonald@intermusica.com

All artists

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam

Contralto

Avery Amereau