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Peter Hoare
Tenor
Renowned for his versatility and his musicianship, Peter Hoare has carved his name with his performances of 20th-century and contemporary opera, making his Metropolitan Opera debut as HauptmannWozzeck followed by Šapkin From the House of the Dead. His recent roles at the Royal Opera House include Mortimer Lessons in Love and Violence, Fatty Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and Dr Caius Falstaff. Much admired by conductors and directors the world over, his repertoire extends to Desportes Die Soldaten, Larry King Anna Nicole and Sharikov The Dog’s Heart. This season’s opera highlights include returns to English National Opera as Monostatos Magic Flute and La Monnaie as Mime Das Rheingold. In concert, he performs Piet le Pot Le Grand Macabre at Bucharest’s Enescu Festival with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Arnaud Arbet, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks cond. Sir Simon Rattle and Zinovy in Shostakovich‘s Lady Macbeth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Andris Nelsons at Boston’s Symphony Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Media
Repertoire Includes
Concert
ADAMS
The Gospel According To The Other Mary Lazarus
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
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)
Selected Discography

Press
wagner DAS RHEINGOLD / la monnaie | de munt
"Le ténor Peter Hoare brille aussi, avec une interprétation très vive et théâtrale du forgeron. Les cris de désespoir de Mime sonnent forts et poignants, témoignant d’une maitrise vocale puissamment déployée."
"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
"Doveroso citare anche, tra gli altri interpreti, il buon Mime del tenore inglese Peter Hoare."
"It is also worth mentioning, among other performers, the fine Mime by the English tenor Peter Hoare."
Alma Torretta, giornaledellamusica.it (26th October 2023)
Berg WOZZECK / aix-en-provence festival
"In McBurney’s conception, the figures of the “elite” oppressors are given no features of humanity—they are a caricature of evil that inspire no empathy. Under such direction, the characters of the Doctor and the Captain were played with mastery by Brindley Sherratt and Peter Hoare, respectively. Well acquainted with Berg’s musical ironies, they stressed as much as they could the strangeness of the text, a strangeness that needs to be visible for the play to work. I particularly cannot forget how Hoare sang “from South to North”—stressing the high note on “South” while leaving, with exquisite irony, the low note of “North” almost inaudible. A true sign of a performer unafraid to give himself to the text."
João Marcos Copertino, Operwire, 17 July 2023
"Le ténor anglais Peter Hoare est un Capitaine portant haut ses couleurs vocales, la voix infusant avec virtuosité, passant des griffures percutantes du grave au miel brûlant de l’aigu"
"English tenor Peter Hoare is a Captain wearing his vocal colors high, his voice infusing with virtuosity, passing from the hard-hitting scratches of the bass to the burning honey of the treble"
Florence Lethurgez, Olyrix, 13 July 2023
"Peter Hoare’s horrid Hauptmann and Brindley Sherratt’s sinister Doktor are exquisite villains."
Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times, 10 July 2023
"Hoare was even more effective than at Covent Garden, with a more percussive ring to the Captain’s manic outbursts."
David Karlin, Bachtrack, 8 July 2023
"Peter Hoare mezcló perfectamente el buen canto con el histrionismo que también le reserva Berg consiguiendo unos resultados excelentes."
"Peter Hoare perfectly blended good singing with the histrionics that Berg also offers, achieving excellent results."
Javier del Olivo, Platea Magazine, 8 July 2023