Justin Hopkins

Current and most recent projects of American bass-baritone Justin Hopkins include UN MÈDECIN/UN BERGER Pelléas et Mélisande Enescu Festival, RUGBY Sir John in Love Bard Music Festival, NARUMOV Pique Dame, GRALSRITTER Parsifal and a new production based on Verdi’s operas: Nostalgia e Rivoluzione La Monnaie, a collaboration with choreographer Jermaine Spivey, and COLLINE La Bohème Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Hall.

In 2021/22 he was in the ensemble of Theater St Gallen where roles included SARASTRO Die Zauberflöte, TERRY Breaking the Waves and GRENVILLE La Traviata. In 20/21 he was a member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève where roles included TITUREL Parsifal, PUBLIO La Clemenza di Tito and GRENVILLE. In 2019/20 he was a member of the Opera Vlaanderen, where roles included KRISHNA Satyagraha and LE BAILLI Werther.

Notable guest engagements include JOE in Francesca Zambello’s production of Show Boat Glimmerglass Festival, DALAND Der fliegende Holländer Baltimore Concert Opera, COLLINE La Bohème Opera San Antonio, NOURABAD Les Pecheurs de Perles and Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox Fort Worth Opera, FRERE LAURENT Romeo et Juliet Opera Philadelphia, SPARAFUCILE and MONTERONE Rigoletto Baltimore Concert Opera, and BARTOLOO Le Nozze di Figaro, and BERGER/MÈDECIN Pelléas Et Mélisande Verbier Festival.

In concerts Mr. Hopkins appeared with the Boston Pops, Philly POPS, Grand Rapids Symphony Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, America Symphony Orchestra , Boston Pops. Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall Boston, and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. He worked with conductors Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Keith Lockhart, Leon Botstein, Alejo Pérez, Anthony Barrese, Paul Daniel, Paul McCreesh, Paolo Carignani, and Jerome Shannon. He is a prize winner of the 2012 Lotte Lenya Competition.