Wayne Hobbs, tenor

Birthplace: Vergennes, Vermont.

Career Highlights: La Scala debut: Syme in Lorin Maazel’s 1984; New York City Opera debut: Auctioneer and Judge in Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner; Broadway debut: Piangi in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera; Royal Opera Covent Garden debut: Syme (cover) in Lorin Maazel’s 1984;

Carnegie Hall debut: Carmina burana and Die erste Walpurgisnacht with The St. Cecilia Chorus; Townsend Harris in Kosaku Yamada’s Kurofune with Harmonia Opera, Young Smith in Wallace and Allan Shawn’s The Music Teacher with New Group of New York,  Ducca in Rigoletto, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Komische Kammeroper München; Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri, Marcellus in The Music Man, Pinkerton (cover) in Madama Butterfly with Ash-Lawn Opera; Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos, Italian Tenor in Jacques Ibert’s Angélique, Tenor #5 in Conrad Suza’s Transformations,  Mr. Upfold in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring with Opera McGill; Eisenstein and Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Don José in Carmen, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.  

Appearances with The St. Cecilia Chorus: Orff’s Carmina burana, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Mozart’s Coronation Mass; Other Oratorios: Die Schöpfung, Die Jahreszeiten, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, B Minor Mass, St. John Passion, Cantatas 29 and 196, Britten’s St. Nicholas Cantata, and Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge.