Born in Nottinghamshire, and a graduate of singing and organ from the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio, Soar is in demand as a bass on both the concert and opera stage.
He has performed at some of the world's most prestigious opera houses including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, the Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Real Madrid, and has worked with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Gianandrea Noseda, Carlo Rizzi, and Jakub Hrůša.
In concert he has worked with many leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights from past seasons include Judge Turpin Sweeney Todd and Fasolt Das Rheingold for Opernhaus Zürich, Fasolt at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Hobson Peter Grimes for English National Opera, as well as his debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Stravinsky’s Les Noces, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
During the 2025-2026 season, he returns to San Francisco Opera as Titurel in Parsifal and Utah Opera as Rocco in Fidelio. He also performs Handel’s Messiah with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra.
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