THOMAS D HOPKINSON — CONNAUGHT ARTISTS

THOMAS D HOPKINSON

TDHOPKINSON.CO.UK BASS

Originally from Nottingham, Thomas was an Associate Artist and Young Artist at The National Opera Studio and is a Sybil Tutton award winner supported by Help Musicians. He was previously a Young Artist at The National Opera Studio and graduated from Royal Northern College of Music where he earned his MMus and Postgraduate Diploma. In 2017 Thomas was also the recipient of The Wexford Festival Opera’s Aria Friends Bursary.

In the 2022/23 season Thomas will perform Un Alcade and cover Il Marchese di Calatrava (La Forza del Destino) for The Royal Opera; Count Horn (Un Ballo in Maschera) for Chelsea Opera Group; cover Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Glyndebourne; Handel’s Messiah; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for Raymond Gubbay; Dr Grenvil (La Traviata) for Scottish Opera and Zelieck (Lurline) for The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

In the 2022/23 season he performed Kaboul Lalla-Roukh for Wexford Festival Opera, a return to The Royal Opera to sing the roles of Sciarrone Tosca & The Second Armoured Man Die Zauberflöte, Zuniga Carmen for Scottish Opera and Theseus (cover) A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Previous roles include 4th Baron (Lohengrin) for The Royal Opera; Zuniga (Carmen) Opera North; The Mourner (Fantasio), Second Prisoner (Fidelio) and cover Le Gouverneur (Le Comte Ory) for Garsington Opera; Hans Foltz (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) for The Hallé; Monterone (Rigoletto), Batone (L’inganno Felice) and The Caliph Mahadi (The Veiled Prophet) for Wexford Festival Opera; RA (Lisbon Floor) for The Copenhagen Opera Festival; Marchese d’Obigny (La Traviata) for Al Bustan Festival; Mathieu (Andrea Chénier) for The Chelsea Opera Group; Viktor (Anya 17) for Awayday Music Productions; Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Opera on Location; Don John (Much Ado About Nothing) and Poins (At The Boars Head) for Northern Opera Group; Sarastro Die Zauberflöte and Dr Grenvil (La Traviata) for Westminster Opera Company.

Thomas also works on the concert platform and has performed Beethoven’s ninth symphony; Handel’s Messiah; Brahms’ Requiem; Tippet's A Child of Our Time; Mozart's Requiem; Faure’s Requiem; Rossini’s Stabat Mater; Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Haydn’s The Creation; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonnelle; Beethoven’s Mass in C; Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri; Samuel in Handel’s Saul; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; Levite in Handel’s Solomon; Mozart’s Mass in C Minor; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater; Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem; Verdi’s Requiem and multiple Opera Galas.

PRESS

"In the role of the Caliph Mahadi was bass Thomas D Hopkinson, who skillfully crafting his lines to bring the role alive in a confident and solid performance."

Alan Neilson, Operawire
"English bass Thomas D. Hopkinson completed the roster of superb male singers as the Caliph Mahadi…The only disappointment is that the character's monologue was not longer."

Martin Wheeler, Opera Magazine
"Thomas D Hopkinson was a fast-moving and energetic Batone......His articulation is clear and his acting was intelligently thought through."

Alan Neilson, Operawire
"In Hopkinson we had a fine performance indeed. He gave us a taste of the storyteller in anticipation of what was to come. A glorious performance of 'Thus saith the Lord of Hosts' and 'For behold, darkness shall cover the earth' set the standard and the others did not disappoint…’The trumpet shall sound' was superb. I've so often heard this over-performed, but this was measured and masterly. First class."

Martin Paul Roche, First Night Reviews
"Thomas D Hopkinson as Count Monterone makes a special note...Hopkinson gives the old Monterone enormous authority in his curse with profound bass"

Thomas Molke , Online Musik Magazin

TDHOPKINSON.CO.UK BASS

PRESS

"In the role of the Caliph Mahadi was bass Thomas D Hopkinson, who skillfully crafting his lines to bring the role alive in a confident and solid performance."

"English bass Thomas D. Hopkinson completed the roster of superb male singers as the Caliph Mahadi…The only disappointment is that the character's monologue was not longer."

"Thomas D Hopkinson was a fast-moving and energetic Batone......His articulation is clear and his acting was intelligently thought through."

"Thomas D Hopkinson as Count Monterone makes a special note...Hopkinson gives the old Monterone enormous authority in his curse with profound bass"

EMYR WYN-JONES