Benjamin Hulett

Benjamin Hulett trained as a choral scholar at New College, Oxford and studied with David Pollard at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper from 2005 to 2009. He has made his debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien in the world premiere of Kalitzke’s Die Besessenen, the Salzburger Festspiele, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and Opera di Roma. He sang Luzio Das Liebesverbot for Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg and his first Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress in Caen, Limoges, Reims, Rouen and Luxembourg. In the UK, Benjamin has performed with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera North, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Garsington Opera, Welsh National Opera, and performed in Sir Jonathan Miller’s staging of St. Matthew Passion at the National Theatre.

Benjamin has appeared regularly at the BBC Proms with Sir Roger Norrington, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Andrew Davis and is increasingly in demand as an interpreter of song. Concert highlights have included Yeoman of the Guard (John Wilson) and Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2 (Edward Gardner) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Arbace in Idomeneo with Fabio Biondi, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Norrington and Christopher Hogwood, Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw under Vladimir Jurowski, the title role in J.C. Bach’s Lucio Silla with Ivor Bolton at the Salzburg Mozartwoche, Bernstein’s A Quiet Place with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, L’heure espagnole with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Charles Dutoit), and Tamino in concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle.

 

Recent highlights include Pulcinella at the BBC Proms under Martyn Brabbins, a return to Covent Garden for Die Zauberflöte, Handel’s Saul (Theatre du Châtelet) and Fidelio at Theater an der Wien. Other notable engagements included his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in L’heure espagnole (Dutoit), Andres Wozzeck for the Theater an der Wien, at Carnegie Hall performing Jupiter Semele as part of an English Concert tour around the USA and Europe (Harry Bicket), with the Teatro Real Madrid as Arbace Idomeneo and as David Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in concert with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Antonio Pappano.

 

This season Benjamin will sing Lysander at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He will also sing Britten’s Serenade with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and Messiah with the Hallé and Sofi Jeannin, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Christian Curnyn and the Kammerorchester Basel and Paul McCreesh. In the New Year, Benjamin will return to the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Der Kaiser von Atlantis as well as at the Dresden Semperoper in Don Giovanni as Don Ottavio.

 

Benjamin’s recordings range from early baroque to new commissions and have received nominations and awards from BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Grammy, L’Orfee d’Or and Diapason.