Benjamin Hulett

Tenor Benjamin Hulett graduated from New College, Oxford. He was a principal singer with the Hamburgische Staatsoper, where his roles included Oronte (Alcina), Jaquino (Fidelio), Arbace (Idomeneo), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte). He made his debuts with the Bavarian State Opera as Oronte, the Theater an der Wien in Johannes Kalitzke’s Die Besessenen, the Salzburg Festival in Elektra, the Baden-Baden Festival in Salome and the Deutsche Staatsoper in Henze’s Phaedra. He sang Arbace with Europa Galante and Biondi, made a return to Hamburg as a guest artist for Tamino and Narraboth (Salome), and sang his first Peter Quint (Turn of the Screw) for Opera North. Recent appearances include Das Paradies und die Peri at the Edinburgh Festival with Norrington, Missa Solemnis with Herreweghe, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Hogwood, Creation with Haim, the Bruckner Requiem with Zehetmair, his first Fenton (Falstaff) for Opera Holland Park, the title role in J. C. Bach’s Lucio Silla with Bolton at the Salzburg Mozartwoche, and Tamino in concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Rattle. He makes his debut for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Edmondo in Manon Lescaut.