Jonah Hoskins

Jonah Hoskins will star as Nemorino in the Santa Fe Opera’s production of The Elixir of Love, premiering on July 27, 2024.  It won’t be the first time he has sung this important role on a major stage. He sang it earlier this season at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He is slated to perform the same role in his debut with the San Francisco Opera in November 2023.

photo: Gillian Riesen

Mr. Hoskins was an Apprentice Singer with the Santa Fe Opera in 2021 and 2022, performing in Eugene Onegin, The Marriage of Figaro, Falstaff, Carmen, and The Barber of Seville. He sang the role of a Sailor in 2022’s Tristan und Isolde. You might also recall his remarkable turn as Rinaldo in Armida during the Apprentice Scenes on August 21, 2022. 

“Precocious” is an apt description of Jonah Hoskins. He was born in Saratoga Springs, Utah in 1996. He won the National Council Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera while still doing undergraduate studies at Bringham Young University. In 2021 he won second place in Placido Domingo’s Operalia competition, was given first prize from the Hildegard Behrens Foundation, and was recognized by the Lotte Lenya Foundation for Extraordinary Artistic Promise. He was awarded a Richard Tucker Music Foundation Study Grant in 2022.

Mr. Hoskins made his debut as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville with the Pensacola Opera in 2022, one year after he sang the role of the Dean of Faculty in the Met Opera’s English-language production of Cendrillon. He made his European and role debut as Chevalier Belfiore in the 2022/2023 season with Semperoper Dresden in Il Viaggio a Reims.

Jonah Hoskins became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while serving as a missionary with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Chinatown community in New York City.

In addition to the Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Singer program, Mr. Hoskins has been part of the Lindemann Program of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, an Apprentice Artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera, and a Young Artist with Houston Grand Opera’s Vocal Academy, the Ohio Light Opera, and the Institute for Young Dramatic Singers.