Biography
Rising lyric tenor Jonah Hoskins, a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, is one of the most promising young voices in opera. A Grand Finals winner of the 2020 Met Competition, Hoskins has continued to triumph on the competition scene: he was awarded with the second prize at Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, was the recipient of the Extraordinary Artistic Promise Award at the Lotte Lenya Competition, and placed first in the National Opera Association Competition.
In the 2025-26 season, Jonah Hoskins begins his two-year tenure as a member of the Hamburg State Opera’s ensemble, debuting as Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and later appearing as Almaviva in Tatjana Gürbaca’s new production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Returning to Berlin, the tenor debuts the role of Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff with the Berlin State Opera and makes his house debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Lindoro in Rolando Villazón’s new staging of Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri. Further engagements include the role of Ernesto in Don Pasquale in his first performances for Opéra de Toulon, followed by his highly anticipated company debut with London’s Royal Opera House as Tonio in La fille du régiment.
Full Biography
Rising lyric tenor Jonah Hoskins, a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, is one of the most promising young voices in opera. A Grand Finals winner of the 2020 Met Competition, Hoskins has continued to triumph on the competition scene: he was awarded with the second prize at Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, was the recipient of the Extraordinary Artistic Promise Award at the Lotte Lenya Competition, and placed first in the National Opera Association Competition.
In the 2025-26 season, Jonah Hoskins begins his two-year tenure as a member of the Hamburg State Opera’s ensemble, debuting as Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and later appearing as Almaviva in Tatjana Gürbaca’s new production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Returning to Berlin, the tenor debuts the role of Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff with the Berlin State Opera and makes his house debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Lindoro in Rolando Villazón’s new staging of Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri. Further engagements include the role of Ernesto in Don Pasquale in his first performances for Opéra de Toulon, followed by his highly anticipated company debut with London’s Royal Opera House as Tonio in La fille du régiment.
Last season, Jonah Hoskins made acclaimed debuts with the Bayerische Staatsoper as Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La cenerentola and with the Berlin State Opera as Arbace in Mozart’s Idomeneo. The tenor returned to Semperoper Dresden as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, a role he reprised with the Glyndebourne Festival. He was heard as Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Mondavi Center under the auspices of Festival Napa Valley and performed the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Florida Grand Opera and Manitoba Opera. On the concert stage, Hoskins sang Mozart’s Requiem alongside soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and the Camerata Salzburg led by Dame Jane Glover, and joined soprano Fatma Said in the annual New Year Concert of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen under the baton of Karina Canellakis.
Highlights of recent seasons includes his role debut as Arnold in a new production of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell with Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland. With Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Opéra National de Bordeaux, he saw his first performances of Nadir in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles. He made his San Francisco Opera company debut in the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, a role he reprised for the Santa Fe Opera. In concert, Hoskins presented a solo recital in collaboration with pianist William Woodard for DC Vocal Arts at the Kennedy Center and was the tenor soloist in Carmina Burana at Theater St. Gallen.
Hoskins debuted the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has also been heard as the Dean of Faculty in Massenet’s Cendrillon (presented in English as Cinderella) for his company debut. With Dresden’s Semperoper, he made his European debut as Chevalier Belfiore in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. Additional recent performances include his first outing as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Pensacola Opera, and for the Santa Fe Opera he has appeared as Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Sailor in Tristan and Isolde. In concert, Hoskins was a soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Orchestra of Bard College at the Fisher Center in New York, under the baton of Leon Botstein.
Born in 1996 in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Hoskins earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Brigham Young University. He subsequently was a participant in the distinguished Apprentice Artist programs of the Santa Fe Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera, as well as Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy. Hoskins made his operatic debut as the First Spirit in The Magic Flute followed by the roles of Tamino (The Magic Flute), Fenton (Falstaff), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and Septimius (Theodora).
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