JUNO Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins begins his 2024-2025 season with a debut at Semperoper Dresden to perform Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and returns later in the season to sing Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Maximilian in a new production of Bernstein’s Candide. For his debut at Staatsoper Berlin, he reprises the roles of Apollo and Angry Audience Member in Bernard Foccroulle and Matthew Jocelyn’s new opera Cassandra. Joshua also returns to The Metropolitan Opera to portray Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.
In concert, Joshua brings his personal project, Songs for Murdered Sisters, to Carnegie Hall and Marian Anderson Hall in Philadelphia with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra for its American orchestral premiere. He also performs the project with Naples Philharmonic under Alexander Shelley. Written by composer Jake Heggie and author Margaret Atwood, Songs for Murdered Sisters was conceived by Hopkins in remembrance of his sister, Nathalie Warmerdam, to bring awareness to ending intimate partner violence.
Elsewhere on the concert stage, Joshua performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He also joins Manfred Honeck for performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and with the Pittsburgh Symphony to sing Fauré’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah.
Past season highlights include his signature roles of Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival, Verbier Festival, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera and Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in house debuts at Opéra de Rouen as well as The Santa Fe Opera, LA Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Vancouver Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival in a new production by Francesca Zambello; and Papageno in The Magic Flute at The Metropolitan Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Washington National Opera, Vancouver Opera and the Ravinia Festival with Marin Alsop. Mr. Hopkins made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Ping in Turandot in the 2009-10 season, conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Most recently, Mr. Hopkins won a JUNO Award for his portrayal of Athanaël with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He was the winner of both the Verbier Festival Academy’s 2008 Prix d’Honneur and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2006. He was also a prizewinner at the prestigious 2006 ARD Musikwettbewerb in Munich and at the 2005 Operalia Competition held in Madrid. Joshua has received prizes from the George London Foundation, the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation, and won the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award from the Canada Council for the Arts.
2024/25 Season
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