to the Semperoper as a fest member in roles such as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Zoroastro, Schaunard (La bohème), Emma Becker, and Achilla. In concert he will join Washington Concert Opera as Oroe in Rossini’s Semiramide and will sing Songs from Solomon’s Garden with the American Composers’ Orchestra at Zankel Hall, having appeared there a few months earlier on Marilyn Horne’s Birthday Gala. Other future projects include a debut with Boston Lyric Opera in a title role. Last season Hughes returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and became a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, where he sang various leading roles, including Don Alfonso and Don Basilio. In the summer he made his debut at the Santa Fe Opera as Zuniga in Carmen and Don Fernando in Fidelio. On the concert stage, Hughes appeared with the New York Philharmonic in a program of contemporary pieces curated by Matthias Pintscher and presented at MOMA, and on the Metropolitan Museum’s recital series in a program devoted to French songs of the time of the sculptor Carpeaux, alongside Susan Graham and Brian Zeger. A champion of contemporary music, Hughes appeared in Elliott Carter’s Syringa with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Zankel Hall (Carnegie) and the Tanglewood Music Festival, conducted both times by James Levine; more recently he premiered Carter’s Three Explorations at Alice Tully Hall with the Axiom Ensemble and Jeffrey Milarsky. Another milestone in the bass-baritone’s performances of Carter’s music was On Conversing with Paradise as part of a festival of cultural exchange entitled Ascending Dragon in Los Angeles, Hanoi, and in other parts of Vietnam. Evan Hughes has appeared as Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Curtis Opera Theatre and the Tanglewood Music Festival (conducted by James Levine). At the Curtis Institute he was also seen as Lord Sidney in Il viaggio a Reims, the title role in Don Giovanni, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, José Tripaldi in the Philadelphia premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, and Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, which was released on Albany Records.
P22
After winning the grand prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, Evan Hughes gave critically acclaimed recitals in NYC for the “On Wings of Song” series, and for “The Song Continues” Gala, marking his Carnegie Hall debut. He made his European recital debut in Denmark with pianist Mikael Eliasen in Skagen’s Sommermusik series. He has also given recitals for the William Walton Foundation at La Mortella in Ischia, Italy, and with the American Academy in Berlin. He has been heard in Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Santa Barbara Symphony and in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer. Hughes attended the Curtis Institute of Music and was a regional winner and a national semi-finalist in the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
A native of Lubbock, Texas, American baritone NORMAN GARRETT (Marchese) is a recent alumnus of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National
Opera. Highlights of Garrett’s 2015/2016 season include the title role in Delius’ Koanga for his European debut at Wexford Festival in Ireland and Mandarino in Turandot with Cincinnati Opera, as well as concerts on behalf of Cincinnati Opera in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. In the 2014/15 season, Garrett appeared as Ríolobo in Daniel Catán’s Florencia in the Amazon at WNO and made his Lyric Opera of
Chicago company debut as Jake in Porgy and Bess, both directed by Francesca Zambello. Orchestral engagements included Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the National Philharmonic at the Music Center at Strathmore and Escamillo in the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s concert performance of Carmen. Garrett is a winner of the 2014 George London Foundation Competition. In the past three years, he has garnered top prizes in more than a dozen international vocal competitions, including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation, the Jensen Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation, Fort Worth Opera’s McCammon Competition, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition. Norman Garrett is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Texas Tech University.
CRAIG COLCLOUGH (Dottore) began his career at LA Opera. After two seasons appearing with the company in various roles,
he joined Florida Grand Opera’s Young Artist Studio and in 2012 became a Filene Young Artist at the Wolf Trap Opera Company. Colclough’s season includes a debut with Arizona Opera as the title role in Falstaff in addition to returns to English National Opera for role debuts as Scarpia in Tosca and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and LA Opera as Simone in Gianni Schicchi. On the concert stage, he makes his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Dottore Grenvil in La traviata. Last season, Colclough made his European debut with English National Opera as Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West, returned to
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
HBOWL_PROG_WK6_0815.indd 22
7/21/15 1:51 PM