Hugh Russell
baritone
Baritone Hugh Russell has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Toronto Symphony,mVancouver Symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), Cincinnati Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony, among many others.
He has been honored to work with many eminent conductors, including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jaap van Zweden, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Manfred Honeck, Edo de Waart, Kent Nagano, Donald Runnicles, Steuart Bedford, Michael Christie, Hans Graf, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Rossen Milanov.
Operatically, he has been featured in productions at Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Atlanta Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Arizona Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Manitoba Opera, the Wexford Festival, and Angers-Nantes Opera. Hugh has been featured in recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and in many appearances with the New York Festival of Song.
As a pianist, he has been featured in performance with Stephanie Blythe at a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Seattle Opera and has also been featured in performance with Christine Brewer for Illinois Humanities. In the current season, Hugh has been featured in performances with pianist Craig Terry and in The Merry Widow with Calgary Opera. He will return to North Carolina Opera to perform Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and will also return to the New Mexico Philharmonic and the Sun Valley Music Festival to perform his signature work, Orff’s Carmina Burana.
