Ben Hulett

Benjamin Hulett trained as a choral scholar at New College, Oxford and studied with David Pollard at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper from 2005 to 2009. He has made his debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Theater an der Wien in the world premiere of Kalitzke’s Die Besessenen, the Salzburger Festspiele, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and Opera di Roma. He sang Luzio Das Liebesverbot for Opera du Rhin Strasbourg and his first Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress in Caen, Limoges, Reims, Rouen and Luxembourg. In the UK, Benjamin has performed with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera North, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Garsington Opera, Welsh National Opera, and in Sir Jonathan Miller’s staging of St Matthew Passion at the National Theatre. Benjamin has appeared regularly at the BBC Proms and is increasingly in demand as an interpreter of song.

This season sees Benjamin at the Royal Ballet & Opera’s Linbury Theatre singing Vitaliano in Giustino and to Oper Köln for their production of Saul. Benjamin will also sing at Garsington in Il ritorno d’Ulisse conducted by Laurence Cummings. On the concert stage he will sing Messiah at the Musikverein, The Dream of Gerontius with the Tampere Philharmonic and Matthew Halls, St Matthew Passion with the Bach Choir and David Hill, and The Kingdom at the Royal Festival Hall in London with David Temple conducting.

24/25 saw a European tour of Beethoven’s Mass in C with Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent and Orchestre des Champs Elysees, and later in the season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. He also toured the latter with Kristiina Poska and Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, sang Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Paul Goodwin and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Turku Philharmonic and John Storgårds.

Other highlights include Benjamin’s debut at La Scala as The Rector in Peter Grimes, for the Royal Danish Theatre he sang Jonathan Prince of Israel in their production of Saul and returned to Grange Park Opera as Kudrjas in Katya Kabanova. On the concert stage, Benjamin sang Bruckner’s Mass with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Collegium Vocale Gent, made a UK tour with Glyndebourne Festival Opera for concerts of Messiah and joined the Warsaw Philharmonic for concerts of the same repertoire. He finished the season at the BBC Proms with John Butt and Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Further notable engagements include Kudrjas in the Salzburg Festival’s production of Katya Kabanova under the baton of Jakub Hrůša and at Opera de Lyon, Davide penitente with Ivan Repusic and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten under the baton of Duncan Ward with the Philharmonie Zuidnederland, and Haydn’s The Seasons with the Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings. Benjamin has also sung Lysander at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pulcinella at the BBC Proms under Martyn Brabbins and his debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in L’heure Espagnole (Charles Dutoit), at Carnegie Hall performing Jupiter Semele as part of an English Concert tour around the USA and Europe (Harry Bicket), Arbace Idomeneo at the Teatro Real Madrid and Tamino with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle.

Benjamin’s wide range of recordings have received nominations and awards from BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Grammy, L’Orfee d’Or and Diapason.