A graduate of The Juilliard School and recipient of the Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, Theo Hoffman’s 2024-2025 season begins with his first Metropolitan Opera engagement, covering the Sensor in the season-opening production of Grounded. Additionally, he joins New York Festival of Song for an evening of French repertoire, and returns to the role of Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro for his house debut with North Carolina Opera. This summer, he returns to Opera Theatre of St. Louis, singing Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. Next season brings his debut with the Opéra Comique, as well as a return to Washington Concert Opera.
The previous season included the baritone’s role and house debut with Opernhaus Zürich as Momus in Platée, his return to Staatsoper Hamburg to sing Lescaut in Massenet’s Manon, and the role of Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro in his debut with with New Orleans Opera.
During the 2022-2023 season, Mr. Hoffman made his debut with Staatsoper Hamburg as Prosdocimo in Rossini’s Il turco in Italia and his anticipated role debut as Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande with the Taiwan Philharmonic, sang Schaunard in La bohème with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, and appeared with the Moab Music Festival in concert.
Highlights of recent seasons include a number of exciting company debuts for the baritone. He has appeared with the Israeli Opera as both Papageno in Barrie Kosky's Die Zauberflöte, and as Count Almaviva in a new David Pountney production of Le nozze di Figaro. Additionally, he made his Seattle Opera debut as Schaunard in La bohème, his debut with Berkshire Opera Festival as Charlie in Jake Heggie's Three Decembers, and performed Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin at Castleton with pianist Bradley Moore. Hoffman also appeared as Frédéric in Delibes' Lakmé with Washington Concert Opera, with the Pacific Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, and as Pierrot in Ethel Smyth's Fête Galante with the Bard Music Festival.
During the COVID-19 shortened 2019-2020 season, Mr. Hoffman made his debut with Opera Philadelphia as Denis in the critically praised world premiere of Denis & Katya by Philip Venables, followed by his return to Los Angeles Opera as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. On the concert stage, he debuted with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, singing Handel’s Messiah, returned to New York Festival of Song, and performed with Southern Oregon Repertory Singers as a soloist in Joby Talbot’s Sheen of Dew.
Amongst other earlier performances, Mr. Hoffman made role debuts as Count Almaviva and Josef K. in the American Premiere of The Trial by Philip Glass at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Mr. Kallenbach in Satyagraha with Los Angeles Opera, Paul in Les Enfants Terribles with Opera Omaha, Schaunard in La bohème with Atlanta Opera, as well as performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the prestigious Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg Mozartwoche, where he performed Colas/Buff in Bastien und Bastienne/Der Schauspieldirektor.
The Manhattan-born baritone trained at Los Angeles Opera as a Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist. While a young artist, he performed Maximilian in Francesca Zambello's acclaimed production of Candide under the baton of James Conlon, as well as Le Dancaïre in Carmen. He debuted as Il medico in Macbeth, and performed Second Nazarene in Salome, Hermann in Les contes d'Hoffmann, First Editor in Wonderful Town, and covered Horemhab in Akhnaten.
A fast-rising recitalist and concert performer, he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Cecilia Chorus of New York for Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and was presented in recital at The Kennedy Center in the 2017-18 season by Vocal Arts DC as the Gerald Perman Emerging Artist. He joined the New York Philharmonic for a chamber concert of Wolf and Mahler, and has appeared at Alice Tully Hall in recital and with Juilliard Songfest. Mr. Hoffman made his debut with the New York Festival of Song in 2013 and has since joined NYFOS regularly. A former SongFest Stern Fellow, his other recital and chamber music credits include Juilliard ChamberFest as well as works on Juilliard’s Songbook and Liederabend series, Arizona Musicfest as the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana, and completed a summer Mozart Residency at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
Mr. Hoffman completed his Bachelor of Music at The Juilliard School. He was a Grand Finalist in the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and a 2015 third prize-winner in the Gerda Lissner Foundation’s International Vocal Competition, as well as the recipient of a Richard Gaddes Career Grant from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
