Jonas Hacker
Tenor
The tenor Jonas Hacker comes from Lake Delton (Wisconsin) and received his extensive training at institutions including the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, the Wolf Trap Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival and the Académie of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2016 he was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Engagements in the 2025/26 season included Tamino in Barrie Kosky’s production of Die Zauberflöte at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Shepherd (Tristan und Isolde) and Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
Previous engagements included Alfredo (La traviata) at the Opéra Grand Avignon and at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Tamino at the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn, Kyle in Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress) at the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola (Iowa). In the USA he has also performed with opera companies including the Dallas Opera, the Washington Concert Opera, the Opera San José and the Arizona Opera.
From 2021 to 2024 he was a member of the ensemble at the Bavarian State Opera, where he sang roles including Tamino, Hylas (Les Troyens), Arbace (Idomeneo) and Sladek / Pierrino in Christoph Marthaler’s version of Lehár’s Giuditta. He has also appeared as Tamino at the Hanover State Opera and sung the part of Uriel in a staged production of Haydn’s The Creation at the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine.
Roles that he has sung in addition to those already mentioned include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Fenton (Falstaff), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Mercure in Rameau’s Platée, Laërte in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, Timothy Laughlin in Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers, A Novice (Billy Budd) and the Prince in Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella.
In concert he has sung the tenor solo in Handel’s Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin (2018) and under Jane Glover (2019); Messiah, Obadiah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra; Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Orchestre Métropolitain under Nézet-Séguin; Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Music of the Baroque under Jane Glover; and Bach’s Mass in B minor and Cantata BWV 150 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Nézet-Séguin.
In 2019 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York with extracts from Deutscher’s Cinderella.
