Ioan Hotea, tenor, was born in Romania. His repertoire includes Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), the title role in Werther, the title role in Manon (Massenet), Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Alfredo in La traviata, Cassio in Otello (Verdi), Elvino in La sonnambula, Arturo in I puritani (Bellini), Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Mozart) and others. He appears at the Royal Opera House Coven Garden and in the opera houses of Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Strasbourg, Monte Carlo, Orange, Athens, Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Dresden, Hamburg, Wiesbaden and others.