Peter Hoare

Peter Hoare was born in Bradford and initially trained as a percussionist, before making his debut as a singer at Welsh National Opera where his many roles include Herod Salome, Mal in James MacMillan The Sacrifice (world premiere) and Alwa Lulu The Jailer/Grand Inquisitor Il Prigioniero and The Magician/Nika Magdoff The Consul. Also a regular at English National Opera, his roles here include Laca Jenůfa, Zinovy Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Faust The Damnation of Faust, Hermann Queen of Spades and Orpheus Man in Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus. Other UK appearances include Boris Káťa Kabanová for Opera Holland Park and Laca Jenůfa for Grange Park Opera’s opening season at the newly built Theatre in the Woods at West Horsley Place. During the curtailed 2020-21 season, Peter performed Frederic in Alex Woolf/David Pountney A Feast of Time and Plague for Grange Park Opera, the only new opera to have been commissioned during the Covid-19 pandemic.

On the international stage, Hoare's roles include Hauptmann at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Shapkin at the Opéra National de Paris and La Monnaie, Alviano Salvago in Schreker Die Gezeichneten at the Komische Opera Berlin and in Palermo, Sharikov for Die Nationale Opera, Amsterdam, La Scala, English National Opera and Opéra de Lyon, Desportes for Opernhaus Zürich and in David Pountney’s production at the Ruhr Triennale, at the New National Theatre Tokyo and at the Lincoln Center in New York.  Other appearances include Mortimer in Hamburg, Amsterdam and Lyon, and his debut as Captain Vere in Annilese Miskimmon’s acclaimed production of Billy Budd for Den Norske Opera in Oslo. He has sung Frère Elie in Saint François d’Assise for the Staastoper Hamburg, Witch Hänsel und Gretel in Amsterdam, Creon Thebans in Bonn and at ENO, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Lyon. 

On the concert platform, Hoare has appeared with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of Kurt Weill Seven Deadly Sins and Das Berliner Requiem in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of John Adams The Gospel According to the Other Mary, recorded as part of the orchestra’s multi-disc box set ‘The John Adams Edition’. Last season he sang Zinovy in Shostakovich Lady Macbeth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Andris Nelsons at Boston’s Symphony Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Recent appearances with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks include Schoenberg Gurrelieder in 2024 and Mime in Wagner Siegfried on tour to Munich, Hamburg and Luxembourg in 2023. He has sung Piet le Pot in Ligeti Le Grand Macabre at Bucharest’s Enescu Festival with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Arnaud Arbet and in a co-production with the London Symphony Orchestra. He appeared at the 2017 BBC Proms singing Gurrelieder with the LSO, and at the 2016 Proms with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Tippett A Child of Our Time. Further performances include Britten Nocturne (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Das Lied von der Erde (Harding/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic), Janacek The Diary of One who Disappeared and Elliot Carter In sleep in thunder with Contrechamps in Geneva and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette (Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra), Verdi Requiem (RLPO), La Damnation de Faust and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Bochumer Symphoniker), Elgar Spirit of England and La Damnation de Faust at the Three Choirs Festival, Mahler 8th Symphony (Elder/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hallé) and performances of The Cunning Little Vixen with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle. 

Hoare's discography includes Wagner Siegfried with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks on BR Klassik; Delius Song of the High Hills and Master of Ceremonies in Britten Gloriana conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras for Decca Records; Tichon Káťa Kabanová with Carlo Rizzi, and Bardolfo Falstaff with Sir Colin Davis for Chandos; and Leonard Meryll Yeomen of the Guard with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera for the Telarc label. 
 
Highlights of Hoare's 2024-25 season include a return to La Monnaie as Mime, his debut at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples as Gamekeeper Rusalka, title role The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at the Staatsoper Berlin and in concert performances at London’s Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra cond. Sir Simon Rattle, Herodes Salome at the Hamburg State Opera and Hauptmann Wozzeck in semi-staged performances at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra cond. Alan Gilbert. Future plans include returns to Covent Garden and his house debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.  

2024/25 season / 853 words. Not to be altered without permission.