Hugh Russell
Baritone with a distinguished career on opera and concert stages across North America.
Canadianbaritone Hugh Russell continues to receive high praise for his charisma,dramatic energy, and vocal beauty. At the center of his orchestral repertoireis Orff's Carmina Burana, which he has performed with The Chicago SymphonyOrchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Los AngelesPhilharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony,Seattle Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony, among many others,with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jaapvan Zweden, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, and Manfred Honeck. His concertrepertoire also embraces Rachmaninoff's The Bells, Fauré's Requiem, Brahms'sEin deutsches Requiem, and John Adams's The Wound-Dresser. On the opera stagehe made his New York City Opera debut in the title role of Il barbiere diSiviglia; he was an Adler Fellow and Merola Program member at San FranciscoOpera.
