The Department of Voice & Opera hosts a guest artist master class with operatic lead and concert soloist Joshua Hopkins, baritone. To begin the class, Joshua will offer a Q&A about a piece he commissioned called Songs for Murdered Sisters by Jake Heggie and Margaret Atwood, ahead of his performance of the piece with the University Philharmonia Orchestra on November 19.

This master class is partially funded by the Jessye Norman Master Class Series Fund. Free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST

Widely respected as one of the finest singer-actors of his generation, JUNO Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian baritone JOSHUA HOPKINS brings his “glistening, malleable baritone of exceptional beauty” (Opera Today) to a repertoire spanning four centuries. His versatile artistry is frequently on display on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Washington National Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company. His recent seasons have featured signature roles including Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and the title roles in Don Giovanni, and Billy Budd. In concert repertoire, he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. Joshua’s diverse discography includes timeless classics and new works of varied opera, oratorio and song repertoire.