Jonas Hacker

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
A 2016 Grand Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, tenor Jonas Hack-er regularly receives high praise for his attractive tenor voice, honeyed tone and easeful delivery, and his ability to convincingly portray characters across genres from Mozart to Britten. Hacker trained at The Academy of Vocal Arts, Wolf Trap Opera, and the Glimmerglass Festival, and attended the prestigious Mozart Residency at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in France. Jonas was previously a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper. A frequent soloist in America, Hacker has sung at the Dallas Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Concert Opera, Opera San Jose, Arizona Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera, Carnegie Hall, among others.  

REPERTOIRE
Alfredo (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Fenton (Verdi’s “Falstaff”)
Kyle (Mazzoli’s “The Listeners”)
Tom Rakewell (Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress”) 
Tamino (Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”)
Pedrillo (Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”)
Arbace (Mozart’s “Idomeneo”)
Ferrando (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”)
Tebaldo (Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi”)
Hylas (Berlioz’s “Les Troyens”)
Sladek/Perrino (Lehár’s “Giuditta”)
Almaviva (Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”)
Mercury (Rameau’s “Platée”)
Laertes (Thomas’s “Hamlet”)
Timothy Laughlin (Spears’ “Fellow Travelers”)
Novice (Britten’s “Billy Budd”)
Prince (Deutscher’s “Cinderella”)

Tenor soloist parts in Händel’s “Messiah”, Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Requiem, Bach’s B Minor Mass among others.