American Bass-Baritone Evan Hughes has been praised for his “appealing clarity and emotional heft” (New York Times) and his “burnished tone” (Opera News).
This season Mr. Hughes makes his debut as Idreno in Haydn’s Armida with the Kammer Akademie Potsdam. He will sing the bass solo in Mozart and Ullmann’s Kaiser Requiem with the Orchestre de Paris and Omer Meir Wellber and the world premiere of Nante’s Anahata at the Elbphilharmonie with Kent Nagano. With AMOC in New York City, he will perform in Lewis/Monteverdi’s The Comet/Poppea and Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies. Future engagements include debuts at La Fenice, Venice, the Opéra-Comique, Paris and the Opéra de Montpellier, all in leading roles.Last season Evan Hughes made his debut with the Theater an der Wien as Valens in a new Stefan Herheim production of Handel’s Theodora conducted by Bejun Mehta. He then returned to the Opernhaus Zürich for Jupiter in a new Jetske Mijnssen production of Rameau’s Platée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. Mr. Hughes also returned to the Boston Lyric Opera for Ophémon in Joseph Bologne’s Anonymous Lover. In concert Mr. Hughes reprised his acclaimed portrayal of the Protector in George Benjamin’sWritten on Skin with the Orchestre National de Lille and Alexander Bloch.