Hugo Herman-Wilson, baritone, is a member of the Young Artist Programme of Les Arts Florissants, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, and a Help Musicians UK Maidment Award holder. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music.
Recent and future engagements include The Notary The Sorcerer and Don Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Charles Court Opera), cover Monsieur Presto Les Mamelles de Tirésias and The Notary Don Pasquale (Glyndebourne Opera), cover Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Krusina/Micha The Bartered Bride (Garsington Opera), Dottore Grenvil La Traviata (Nevill Holt and Oxford Opera), debuts at the Lucerne, George Unescu, Tanglewood and BBC Proms festivals, and also performances at Lincoln Center, La Scala, Philarmonie de Paris as part of Les Arts Florissants’ production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.
On the concert platform, Hugo has performed recitals at Wigmore Hall, SmorgasChord Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, and was an audience prize winner at the Somerset Song Prize. He has performed Bach Cantatas with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and at the London Handel Festival.
Hugo is grateful for the support of Opera Prelude and the Aldama Foundation.
Hugo Herman-Wilson had power to burn as a skunk-toting, black nail varnish-wearing 'Dan' Basilio
The music teacher Basilio is now 'Dan Basilio', a gross preacher whose ode to slander is thunderously delivered by Hugo Herman-Wilson
The singers included some notable young talents... Hugo Herman-Wilson amusingly dealt with the work's comic moments
Two musical numbers, as opposite as could be, were among the musical highlights. Comedic delight was provided by tenor Ilja Aksionov and baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson in the ‘Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa’.
It was baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson, a real stage animal, who dominated the ensemble, though, with acting and singing of great subtlety and wit.