Robert Hofmann

Background

About Robert Hofmann

As well as being an award-winning cabaret performer, Robert sings operatic baritone repertoire and has sung over 20 roles with WA Opera including Dr Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro, Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Koko in The Mikado, Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love, Falke in Die Fledermaus and Hobson in Peter Grimes. He has also performed for Opera Australia in Sydney. For Freeze Frame Opera, he has performed the title role in Gianni Schicchi, the Father in The Little Mermaid (Rusalka) for Perth Festival, the Father in Hansel and Gretel and Sacristan/Gaoler in Tosca and various concerts. Robert’s one-man cabaret shows including Desperately Young at Heart and What the Fandango! have received rave reviews at Downstairs at the Maj, Perth Writers’ Festival, Perth, Melbourne and Edinburgh Fringes, and off Broadway New York City. Robert is a frequent guest artist with DivaLicious and recently featured in the Perth Fringe Festival/Government House Ballroom hit, Mismatched! with Penny Shaw and Tommaso Pollio. His concert soloist engagements have included the Bach Passions and Mass in B Minor, Messiah, and Mozart Requiem with St Georges Cathedral Consort under the direction of Dr Joseph Nolan as well as appearances with UWA Choral Society, Perth Symphonic Chorus and Perth Symphony Orchestra.