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 Frederic in Alex Woolf/David Pountney’s A Feast of Time and Plague commissioned during the COVID-19 pandemic for Grange Park Opera, Tanzmeister Ariadne auf Naxos for the Staatsoper Hamburg and Mortimer for the Teatro Real. Concert performances this season include Britten Nocturne with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Artist Manager

Camilla Wehmeyer

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Associate

Mary Donald

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Media

News

Liverpool Philharmonic does Britten, Fauré & Mozart

On Wednesday 16 and Saturday 19 December, Peter Hoare returns to Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall for performances of Benjamin Britten’s Nocturne with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Stephanie Childress. Britten's serene song cycle is based on themes of sleep and the night with texts by British poets (Shelley, Tennyson, and Shakespeare amongst them). The orchestra will also be performing Fauré's Masques et Bergamasques and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall will be opening its doors to a live audience, though capacity is limited and seating will be done on a socially distanced basis. Tickets can be booked online via the RLPO website.

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)

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)

WEILL

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Fatty)

ZIMMERMANN

Die Soldaten (Desportes)

Selected Discography

Cast includes Peter Hoare and Rebecca Evans. Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras with the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera and the Chorus of the Welsh National Opera
LONDON (1995)

George Benjamin: Lessons In Love and Violence

Filmed at Covent Garden, cast includes Stéphane Degout, Peter Hoare, Barbara Hannigan and Samuel Boden. George Benjamin conducts the orchestra of the Royal Opera House

OPUS ARTE (2018)

Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary

John Adams Edition: Cast includes Kelley OʼConnor (Mary), Tamara Mumford (Martha), Daniel Bubeck (Countertenor), Brian Cummings (Countertenor), Nathan Medley (Countertenor), with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

BERLIN PHILHARMON (2017)

Cast includes Christopher Purves (title role), Dina Kuznetsova, Tassis Chrystoyannis and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Richard Jones production from the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

OPUS ARTE

Cast includes Peter Hoare (Tichon), Cheryl Barker, Jane Henschel and Robert Brubaker. Conducted by Carlo Rizzi with the Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera.

CHANDOS (2007)

Cast includes Peter Hoare, Stephen Gadd, and Janice Watson. Conducted by Hilary Davan

Cast includes Peter Hoare, Christopher Purves, Leigh Melrose and Sarah Tynan. Conducted by Anthony Negus with the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera and the Chorus of the Welsh National Opera
CHANDOS (2007)

Cast includes Michele Pertusi, Carlos Alvarez, Bulent Bezduz, Alasdair Elliott and Peter Hoare (Bardolpho). Conducted by Sir Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra.

LSO LIVE (2004)

Cast includes Peter Hoare (Leonard), Alwyn Mellor, Neil Archer, Richard Suart and Felicity Palmer. Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras with the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera and the Chorus of the Welsh National Opera
TELARC (2001)

Cast includes Peter Hoare, Dame Josephine Barstow, Yvonne Kenny, John Shirley-Quirk and Bryn Terfel. Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras with the Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
ARGO (1993)

Press

britten NOCTURNE / royal liverpool philharmonic orchestra

“The centrepiece was a superb performance of Benjamin Britten’s Nocturne. ... One could only marvel at Britten’s word-setting, and at Peter Hoare’s beautiful rendition. His enunciation of the verse was exemplary. I felt as if such lines as “It was a climate where, they say,/ The night is more beloved than day” could not be expressed in any other way. I was pleased that that song (words by Coleridge) was more magical and less sinister than in some performances. A “lovely boy” picking fruit in the moonlight wearing nothing but a “twine of leaves” can seem very creepy indeed. Here the harp helped create a sparkling moonlight scene.
Nocturne is not all serious, however. The noises of the night in Midnight’s Bell, a setting of Middleton, had me smiling broadly under my mask, especially the horn’s evocation of bird and animal sounds and Peter Hoare’s mimicking of the cat mewing. Another highlight was Hoare’s negotiating of Keats’ Sleep and Poetry with elaborate, cheerful contributions from flute and clarinet. .”
Peter Connors, Bachtrack, 17th December 2020

Berg WOZZECK / Greek National Opera

“Peter Hoare is delightfully hysterical.”
James Imam, Financial Times, 20th January 2020

Birtwistle THE MASK OF ORPHEUS / English National Opera

“In the insanely demanding title-role, a brave and accomplished performance by a scantily clad Peter Hoare deserves prizes.”
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 19th October 2019

“Huge respect to the heroic performers, especially Peter Hoare as Orpheus.”
Richard Morrison, The Times, 21st October 2019

“Peter Hoare’s formidable account, often half-naked or draped in a short red robe and looking uncannily like Eddie Izzard or a grizzled Gary Glitter, deserves an Oscar.”
Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, 26th October 2019

“Peter Hoare is brilliant, as always, as Orpheus the Man.”
Richard Fairman, Financial Times, 21st October 2019

Britten BILLY BUDD / Den Norske Opera, Oslo

“The main roles were consistently well performed, but Peter Hoare probably played the most important in the role of the old Captain Vere at the old folks home, especially at the end of the performance. He shaped the melodies so beautifully, that it could just as well have been high-romantic music, and I stopped reading the text because the diction was so clear.”
Magnus Andersson, Klassekampen Musikkmagasinet, 4th February 2019

Benjamin LESSONS IN LOVE & VIOLENCE / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

“Even as a military adviser, Mortimer (the bright-voiced tenor Peter Hoare), argues that love — any love — is “poison” to both the human body and the body politic.”
Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 11th May 2018

“Peter Hoare (is) utterly compelling as Mortimer.”
Warwick Thompson, Metro, 11th May 2018

“Peter Hoare’s Mortimer – wild-eyed but horribly sane in his actions, spinning even the most grotesque logic into plausible, lovely phrases.”
Alexandra Coghlan, The Arts Desk, 11th May 2018

Janáček JENŮFA / Grange Park Opera at West Horsley Place

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jenůfa’s hapless suitors Laca and Steva as strongly or sharply defined as they are by Peter Hoare and Nicky Spence. Hoare’s Laca movingly portrays low self-esteem suddenly finding inner strength, […] Both these excellent tenors sing at the top of their game.”
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, 21 June 2017

“Peter Hoare (Laca) makes this fiendishly high role sound easy, his bright timbre well suited. Hoare is pent with energy, liable to explode at any moment in this volcanic portrayal.”
Louise Lewis, British Theatre Guide 14, June 2017

Ligeti LE GRAND MACABRE / London Symphony Orchestra

“A uniformly strong cast included especially fine contributions from Peter Hoare as the inebriated Piet the Pot”
Barry Millington, Evening Standard Jan 2017

Janáček JENŮFA / English National Opera

“Peter Hoare is the intense Laca, his voice dark and strong, the man’s bitterness, desire and remorse beautifully realised.”
Tim Ashley, The Guardian, June 2016

“The real strength of the cast, though, is in its pair of tenors, Peter Hoare giving another of his gripping character portrayals as Laca…”
Richard Fairman, Financial Times, June 2016

Julian Anderson THEBANS / English National Opera

Peter Hoare was outstanding as the despotic Creon, doomed by his own inflexibility. Hoare commands the whole of proceedings both with gesture and stage movement with a strong, flexible tenor voice”
David Karlin, Bachtrack, May 2014

Berg WOZZECK / Metropolitan Opera

“Peter Hoare has long been an outstanding Captain, not unknown to New York audiences after Esa-Pekka Salonen’s devastating performance with the Philharmonia at Lincoln Center eighteen months ago. Snivelling, abrasive, fundamentally decrepit and yet earnestly devoted to a bankrupt moral order, Hoare’s … tenor suits this role superbly, and his contortions onstage thoroughly enacted the Captain’s inherent hypocrisy.”
David Allen, Bachtrack, March 2014