BenjaminHulett

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  • Tenor

About Benjamin

Benjamin Hulett studied at New College, Oxford and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He has sung for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Hamburgische Staatsoper; Bayerische Staatsoper; Deutsche Staatsoper; Theater an der Wien; Opéra de Lille, Opéra National de Lyon, the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Glyndebourne, Salzburg, Edinburgh and Baden-Baden Festivals.

In concert his appearances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestras under Charles Dutoit; the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano; Salzburg Mozartwoche under Ivor Bolton; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under John Wilson and the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington, Emmanuelle Haïm, Trevor Pinnock, Christopher Hogwood and Vladimir Jurowski. His recital appearances include London’s Wigmore Hall and the Aldeburgh, Buxton, Oxford Lieder and Leeds Lieder festivals and his many recordings have received nominations and awards from the BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, the Grammys, L’Orfée d’Or and Diapason.

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Royal Albert Hall, London
BBC Proms: Handel, arr. Mozart: Messiah John Butt (conductor) Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Cité musicale-Metz | Palau de la Música Catalana | Musikverein Vienna | Müpa Budapest
Beethoven: Mass in C Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) Collegium Vocale Gent Orchestre des Champs Elysees
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Mendelssohn: Lobgesang Paul Goodwin (conductor) Warsaw Philharmonic

Video

Audio

  • Britten Les Illuminations (Excerpt)
    Credit: Saphrane Label
  • Britten Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  • Stabat Mater

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Selected Repertoire

Ades

The Tempest (Ferdinand)

Beethoven

Fidelio (Jaquino)

Britten

Billy Budd (Novice)   •   Curlew River (Madwoman)   •   A Midsummer Night’s Dream Flute (Lysander)   •   The Turn of the Screw (Peter Quint)

Handel

Alcina (Oronte)   •   Rodelinda (Grimoaldo)

Henze

Phaedra (Hippolyt)

J.C Bach

Lucio Silla (Lucio Silla)

Kalitzke

Die Besessenen (Lesczcuk)

Monteverdi

L’incoronazione di Poppea Arnalta (Lucano)

Mozart

Così fan tutte (Ferrando)   •   Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio)   •   Idomeneo (Arbace)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Tamino)

Rossini

La Pietra del Paragone (Giocondo)

Strauss

Salome (Narraboth)   •   Elektra (Junger Diener)   •   Die Frau ohne Schatten (Die Erschienungs eines Jünglings)

Stravinsky

The Rake’s Progress (Tom Rakewell)

Wagner

Der fliegende Holländer (Steuermann)

News

Press

  • Britten Pears Weekend Recital with Malcolm Martineau

    Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
    Oct 2022

  • Bach's Mass in B minor

    • Bach’s St John Passion: BBC Philharmonic | Nicholas Kraemer

      Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
      Mar 2024

      • Benjamin Hulett then took up the story, with a lovely, lyrical, agile and flexible tenor, with expressive word painting. Benjamin Hulett was electrifying in his description of the curtain of the temple being torn in two, with its onomatopoeic falling cello motif.

    • BBC Proms | Messiah

      Royal Albert Hall, London
      Sep 2024

      • Benjamin Hulett shone brightest among the the soloists, singing with supple strength and palpable enthusiasm,

      • Tenor Benjamin Hulett opened with a gently sustained “Comfort Ye”, followed by a nimble “Ev’ry Valley”.

      • But from the moment that the engaging Benjamin Hulett took the stage – appropriate term for a dramatic approach – and Mozart's bucolic woodwind enhanced his lovely "Every Valley" right through to the end, vivacity took off and never deserted the performance.

      • ...the tenor Benjamin Hulett winning the eloquence prize...

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