Ioan Hotea
tenor
© Frances Marshall
The Romanian tenor Ioan Hotea is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he appeared for the first time in 2017/18 singing his first Elvinos in La sonnambula, to sing the title role in the last revival of this wonderful production of Massenet’s Werther. He has sung many roles at Hessen’s Staatstheater in Wiesbaden since 2015, including Alfredo (La Traviata), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and his first Taminos (Die Zauberflöte), des Grieuxs (Manon Lescaut), Dukes (Rigoletto) and the title role in Werther. This season you can hear him there singing Camille de Rossillon in a new production of The Merry Widow, the Duke and Rinuccio. He recently sang Prince Léopold for the first time, in a new production of La Juive at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague, singing the Duke. Since winning the 2015 Operalia Singing Competition in London he has appeared at leading opera houses around the world including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra National de Paris, Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg and Stuttgart state operas, Zurich and Monte Carlo operas, singing roles including Ernesto, Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Ferrando, Almaviva, Cassio (Otello) and Elvino (La sonnambula). He graduated with distinction from Romania’s Baia Mare in Bucharest.