Romanian tenor Ioan Hotea in 2015 won Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in London, awarded with the First Prize in the Opera and Zarzuela categories.
In 2013 he had the international debut in Amelia al ballo by Gian Carlo Menotti at Opéra de Monte-Carlo. The same year performed alongside Edita Gruberova in Donizetti’s Three Queens concert at Theater an der Wien. Since then his international career brought him in the major opera houses of the world: in 2014 he debuted at Opèra National de Paris as Tebaldo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi, in 2016 he debuted at Opernhaus Zurich as Ernesto in Don Pasquale staged by Grischa Asagaroff and conducted by Enrique Mazzola, in the season 2016/2017 he debuted Royal Opera London with Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, in the season 2017/2018 he debuted at Vienna State Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia, in 2020 he had his debut at Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Ferrando in Così fan tutte, in 2021 he had his debut at Staatsoper Hamburg as Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon, in 2021 he debuted at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, in 2022 he debuted at Grand Théâtre de Genève as Prince Léopold in Halévy’s La Juive conducted by Marc Minkowski and at Semperoper Dresden as Ferrando in Così fan tutte conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.
Recent highlights are Rigoletto in Leipzig and in Essen, Nabucco in Bonn, Gianni Schicchi at ABAO Bilbao, La traviata at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Rigoletto at Israeli Opera Tel Aviv and at Teatro Massimo Palermo, La Juive at Teatro Regio in Turin.
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