PETER HOARE

Peter Hoare was born in Bradford and studied percussion at the Huddersfield School of Music. Following several years as a freelance percussionist, he began his professional singing career in 1992. Operatic rôles include Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Captain in Wozzeck, Vaudemont in Iolanta, Tito in La clemenza di Tito, Narraboth in Salome, the Simpleton in Boris Godunov, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, Tikhon in Kat’á Kabanová and Golitsyn in Khovanshchina for Welsh National Opera; Bardolfo in Falstaff, Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier, Goro in Madama Butterfly for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Mr Upfold in Albert Herring, Idomeneo and Arbace in Idomeneo and Brother Elusaf in A Betrothal in the Monastery for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Arbace for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin, Lucerne, and at the Salzburg Festival, Herod in Salome for Opera North, the Schoolmaster in The Cunning Little Vixen for Scottish Opera; Desportes in Die Soldaten for Kultur Ruhr, Tikhon for Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bardolfo with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, Sellem in The Rake’s Progress for Opéra de Lausanne; Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro and Sellem in The Rake’s Progress at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

His concert engagements include Das Lied von der Erde with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding; the Royal Flemish Philharmonic conducted by Daniele Callegari in Brussels and Antwerp and the Nash Ensemble conducted by Martyn Brabbins at the Cheltenham Festival, Tippett’s A Child of our Time with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz, Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared and Elliot Carter’s In Sleep, In Thunder with Contrechamps in Geneva and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Bochumer Symphoniker, Roméo et Juliette with the Bochumer Symphoniker, Judas Maccabaeus recorded for Anglia Television, La damnation de Faust and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland). Recordings include Delius’s Song of the High Hills and the Master of Ceremonies in Britten’s Gloriana conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras for Decca Records, and Leonard Meryll in Yeomen of the Guard with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera for the Telarc Label.

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