Full Biography
Rising lyric tenor Jonah Hoskins, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, is one of the most promising young voices of the opera world. 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 at the Bolshoi Theatre, 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 2024-25 season, Jonah Hoskins makes his highly anticipated Bayerische Staatsoper debut as Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola. He returns to Semperoper Dresden as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, a role he also brings to the Glyndebourne Festival. He sings Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Mondavi Center under the auspices of Festival Napa Valley, and twice revisits the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, with Florida Grand Opera and Manitoba Opera. On the concert stage, Hoskins is heard as tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem alongside soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and the Camerata Salzburg, led by Dame Jane Glover. He also joins the annual New Year Concert of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden with soprano Fatma Said and under the baton of Karina Canellakis. The concert will be broadcast on national television.
Last season, as an ensemble member at Theater St Gallen in Switzerland, Jonah Hoskins debuted the role of Arnold in a new production of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. With Opéra National de Bordeaux and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, he saw his first performances of Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles. He made his house debut with the San Francisco Opera in the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, a role he reprised in the summer for the Santa Fe Opera. On the concert stage, Hoskins presented a solo recital in collaboration with pianist William Woodard for DC Vocal Arts at the Kennedy Center and sang as the tenor soloist in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at Theater St. Gallen.
Highlights of recent seasons include his role debut as 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. Hoskins made his European debut as Chevalier Belfiore in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at Semperoper Dresden. He also sang Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Pensacola Opera in his role and house debut. With the Santa Fe Opera, he was heard as the Sailor in Tristan and Isolde, and in 2021 he saw his first performances with the company as Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro and Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In concert, Hoskins was a soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Bard Orchestra 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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