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BARITONE
Theo
Hoffman
"Hoffman’s strong, warm voice filled the space...This was a performance so visceral, so equally raw and refined, it felt completely fresh."
Lately.
Theo Hoffman appears in November 2025 for a role debut as Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride at the Opéra Comique in Paris, as well as a concert performance of the opera with Washington Concert Opera the same month, with iterations of the Opéra Comique production planned for future seasons. Recent operatic performances include a role debut as Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, his first contract at the Metropolitan Opera covering the Sensor in Jeanine Tesori's Grounded, a house debut with Opernhaus Zürich in a new production of Platée, a house debut with Staatsoper Hamburg as Poeta in Il Turco in Italia, where he returned to sing Lescaut in Massenet's Manon. Signature roles inlude Papageno in Die Zauberflöte which he has performed at LA Opera and Israeli Opera, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro which he debuted as a student at Juilliard and has taken him to Israeli Opera, New Orleans Opera, North Carolina Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Schaunard in La Bohème which he has sung at Seattle Opera, Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, and Atlanta Opera. Mr. Hoffman is extremely at home in contemporary music, and performed the critically acclaimed world premiere of Philip Venables and Ted Huffman's Denis & Katya at Opera Philadelphia. He has performed several works of Philip Glass, including Satyagraha at LA Opera, Les Enfants Terribles at Opera Omaha, and The Trial at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where he also was seen as Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has concertized with Salzburg Mozartwoche, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vocal Arts DC, Castleton Festival, Ravinia Festival, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Marlboro Music, and Bard Music Festival. He has performed under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, Emmanuelle Haïm, Giovanni Antonini, Plácido Domingo, James Conlon, Giacomo Sagripanti, GiedrÄ— ŠlekytÄ—, Marin Alsop, Michele Gamba, and Christopher Allen. He has performed in productions of Barrie Kosky, Christof Loy, Tim Albery, Chas Rader-Shieber, David Bösch, Ted Huffman, Jetske Mijnssen, James Darrah, Mary Birnbaum, Phelim McDermott, Sir David Pountney, and others.

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
North Carolina Opera
April 2025

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
June 2025

IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE
Opéra Comique
November 2025
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"The production’s fire came from its Josef K., Theo Hoffman... his performance ought to serve as a letter of introduction to opera houses around the world. Streams of silver poured from his mouth; he was the bright moonlight in the cool, creepy, cirrusy sky of Glass’s score."

"As Josef K., Theo Hoffman appears and sings in every scene, displaying remarkable endurance and a gorgeous, wide-ranging baritone."
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
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