Joshua Hopkins

Simon Pauly

Joshua begins his 2024-2025 season with a debut at Semperoper Dresden to perform one of his signature roles, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and returns later in the season to sing Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Maximilian in Bernstein’s Candide. For his debut at Staatsoper Berlin, he reprises the roles of Apollo and Angry Audience Member in Bernard Foccroulle and Matthew Jocelyn’s new opera Cassandra. Joshua also returns to The Metropolitan Opera to portray another signature role, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, which features a worldwide simulcast on April 26, 2025 as part of The MET’s Live in HD series.

In concert, Joshua brings his most personal project, Songs for Murdered Sisters, to Carnegie Hall and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra for the American orchestral premiere of the cycle. He also gives performances of the work with the Naples Philharmonic under the baton of Alexander Shelley. 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. The critically acclaimed film, directed by James Niebuhr, is available to watch on YouTube and the JUNO-nominated digital album, released on the Pentatone label, is available on all streaming platforms.

Elsewhere on the concert stage, Joshua performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He also joins Manfred Honeck for performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and with the Pittsburgh Symphony to sing Fauré’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah.

Joshua appears regularly at The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company and The Santa Fe Opera amongst many others. Latest role debuts include Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with Les Grandes Voix; the title role of Cavaliere di Belfiore in a new Christopher Alden production of Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at Garsington Opera; Dandini in La Cenerentola and Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore, both at Lyric Opera of Chicago; the title role in Billy Budd with Central City Opera; and Athanaël in a concert version of Massenet’s Thaïs with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and recorded for Chandos Records, for which he won a JUNO Award.