Joshua Hopkins

Joshua Hopkins opens his 2025-26 season with a return to the Semperoper Dresden as Papageno in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute, going on to repeat the role in Julie Taymor’s production at the Metropolitan Opera. He also performs Figaro in Emilio Sagi’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville for San Francisco Opera. Concert highlights include William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast at the Romanian Athenaeum; Bucharest with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Daniel; and more across the United States.

Hopkins brings his most personal project, Songs for Murdered Sisters, to two new venues this season, performing the song cycle with the Victoria Symphony in Canada and University of Michigan’s Philharmonia Orchestra in Ann Arbor. 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. 

Last season, Hopkins made a series of notable debuts throughout Germany. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera in a signature role as Count Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which featured on a worldwide simulcast as part of The Met's Live in HD series. On the concert stage, he brought Songs for Murdered Sisters to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall and to Marian Anderson Hall with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra for its American orchestral premiere. Hopkins returned to Montreal’s Metropolitan Orchestra for his first Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and joined Manfred Honeck for performances of Joseph Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 

Hopkins has developed a reputation for his work in contemporary operas by celebrated American composers, creating leading roles for the world premieres of new works both in the United States and Europe. Recent original roles have included Orpheus in the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice for Los Angeles Opera, which he also performed at the Metropolitan Opera including a worldwide simulcast for The Met’s Live in HD series; and Niccolò Machiavelli in the premiere of Mohammed Fairouz and David Ignatius’ The New Prince in his company debut for Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. 

Profoundly committed to the art of song, Hopkins’s first recital disc, Let Beauty Awake, features songs of Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Srul Irving Glick, and Ralph Vaughan Williams on the ATMA Classique label.