Ole Hass, Tenor

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Ole Hass grew up singing in the boys’ choir at St. Michael’s cathedral, where he sang with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Peter Schreier and other noted artists. 

At home now in the Washington, DC area, Ole Hass has performed as soloist with the Washington Bach Consort, Cantate Chamber Singers, the New Dominion Chorale, the City Choir of Washington, the Alexandria Choral Society, the Central Maryland Chorale, and at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in the annual sing-along of Handel’s Messiah.

 Ole Hass appeared as the Evangelist in the Bach Consort’s performance of the Christmas Oratorio this December at Strathmore Hall and will be the Evangelist in the St. John Passion at the National Cathedral this year.

 Ole Hass was praised by the Washington Post as “one of the finest young tenors in the Washington area” for his portrayal of Nankie-Poo in The Mikado with the Washington Savoyards, and has sung numerous leading opera roles with the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, The In Series, The Washington Savoyards and the Maryland Opera Studio.

 His Mozart opera roles include the tenor leads in Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and La finta giardiniera. Ole Hass has performed about a dozen roles with the Maryland Opera Studio, for which he created the role of Robert Schumann in the world premiere of Robert Convery’s Clara.

 Hass holds a DMA in vocal performance from the University of Maryland, College Park and works for RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950) as editor for German-language music journals, where his work on the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1798-1848) is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.