Benjamin Hulett

Benjamin Hulett has been hailed by the national press as one of the most promising young tenors of today. He studies with David Pollard and trained on the Opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and as a choral scholar at New College, Oxford.

On the concert platform he has appeared with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC Proms), the Orchestre des Champs-Élyseés and Philippe Herreweghe in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and he sang G. F. Handel's arias with the Mdr Sinfonieorchester Leipzig at the Handelfestspiele Halle and Leipzig Gewandhaus. Other highlights include L. van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under Ph. Herreweghe in Madrid, W. A. Mozart's Requiem in Salzburg, Handel's Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Rome, J. S. Bach's Weinachts-Oratorium with the Academy of Ancient Music under Ch. Hogwood in Munich, M. Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, H. Purcell's The Fairy Queen under H. Bicket, B. Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Stavanger Symfonieorkester, Britten songs with Jeffrey Tate in Turin and Les Illuminations for the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam. He has sung the role of Ferdinand in scenes from The Tempest for Vara Radio at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Mozart arias with Sir Roger Norrington and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the 2006 BBC Proms.

His opera credits include Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Mid Wales Opera, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) with Grange Park Opera, Giocondo (La Pietra del Paragone) for Fribourg Opera and Opera Rennes, Madwoman (Curlew River) for New Chamber Opera and principal roles for Bampton Classical Opera, The Early Opera Company and Opera Restor'd. He made his debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper as Oronte (Alcina) and sang Arbace in Idomeneo with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi.

He was a principal with the Hamburgische Staatsoper over four seasons where his roles included Oronte (Alcina), Flute (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Jaquino (Fidelio), Arbace (Idomeneo), Steuermann (Der Fliegende Holländer), Arnalta/Lucano (L'incoronazione di Poppea), the Novice (Billy Budd), the Almoner (Les dialogues des Carmélites), the Four Servants (Les contes d'Hoffmann),Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte).

This season Benjamin Hulett makes his debut with the Theater an der Wien and returns to Hamburg as a guest artist for Tamino and Narraboth (Salome). He will make his debut with Opera North as Peter Quint in their new production of The Turn of the Screw, and will make his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the new production of Elektra.