JUNO Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins has been hailed by Opera Today as having “a glistening, malleable baritone of exceptional beauty, and the technique to exploit its full range of expressive possibilities from comic bluster to melting beauty.”

In the 2025–26 season, Hopkins returns to two of his most acclaimed operatic roles: Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at both The Metropolitan Opera and Semperoper Dresden and Rossini’s Figaro at San Francisco Opera. His busy concert season includes several works that are new to the artist; he sings Rachmaninoff’s The Bells under Matthias Pintscher with both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony, debuts with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast in Bucharest and returns to the San Francisco Symphony with longtime collaborator Bernard Labadie in Bach’s Easter Oratorio. He also returns to the Colorado Symphony in Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem and Haydn’s Mass in Time of War.

Hopkins brings his most personal project, Songs for Murdered Sisters, to two new venues this season, performing the song cycle with the Victoria Symphony in British Columbia and the University of Michigan’s Philharmonia Orchestra in Ann Arbor. Written by composer Jake Heggie and author Margaret Atwood, Songs for Murdered Sisters was conceived by Hopkins in remembrance of his sister, Nathalie Warmerdam, to bring awareness to ending intimate partner violence. The critically acclaimed film, directed by James Niebuhr, is available to watch on YouTube, and the JUNO-nominated digital album, released on the Pentatone label, is available on all streaming platforms.

In the 2024–25 season, Hopkins made a series of celebrated debuts and returns in both Europe and North America. At Semperoper Dresden, he debuted as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and later returned for Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Maximilian in Bernstein’s Candide. He made a notable debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, jumping in as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, and debuted at Staatsoper Berlin in Bernard Foccroulle and Matthew Jocelyn’s Cassandra. His return to the Metropolitan Opera as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro was highly praised, broadcast worldwide as part of The Met’s Live in HD series and featured on PBS’s Great Performances. On the concert stage, he brought Songs for Murdered Sisters to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall and to Marian Anderson Hall with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra for its American orchestral premiere; he also joined Alexander Shelley and the Naples Philharmonic for performances of the work. Hopkins returned to Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain for his first Beethoven Symphony No. 9, and he joined Manfred Honeck for performances of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Fauré’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony. joshuahopkins.com