A 2016 Grand Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, tenor Jonas Hacker regularly receives high praise for his ability to convincingly portray characters across genres from Mozart to Glass. In the 2017-2018 season, Mr. Hacker will make his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Timothy Laughlin in Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers and will also make his company and role debut with Kentucky Opera as Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. Recent performances include his debut with Washington Concert Opera in their performance of Beethoven’s Leonore, the first version of his opera Fidelio, as the tenor soloist in a quartet rendition of Bach’s Cantata 150 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and as George Gibbs in Ned Rorem’s Our Town with Fresno Grand Opera and Townsend Opera.
