Baritone
Born in Lisbon, Hugo Oliveira was a member of the Opera Studio of Porto - Casa da Música, where he participated in productions such as Joaz (Jojada) by Benedetto Marcello under the direction of Richard Gwilt, L'Ivrogne Corrige (Lucas) by Gluck with musical direction by Jeff Cohen and Frankenstein! Heinz-Karl Gruber directed by Pierre-Andre Valade and in 2006 with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of François-Xavier Roth at the Barbican Center in London.
Inserted in the prestigious opera series of the Concertgebouw - Zaterdagmatinée NPS - played La Wally de Catalani (Pedone) and Samson et Dalila de Saint-Saëns (2e. Philistin), both under the direction of Giuliano Carella and Lohengrin of R. Wagner (Dritte Edler), directed by Jaap van Zweden.
At the Festival de Aix-en-Provence, Hugo Oliveira starred in Oscar Strasnoy’s opera Un Retour.
He also played As Bodas de Figaro (Figaro) at the Coliseu do Porto, under the direction of Young-min Park, Les malheurs d'Orphée de D. Milhaud (Orphée) with Ebony Band in Paris (Cité de la Musique), Melodias Estranha de António Chagas Rosa with Stefan Asbury, Paint me (Howard) Luís Tinoco directed by Joana Carneiro, L'enfant et les Sortilèges (Fauteuil) under the direction of Wayne Marshall at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Dido and Eneas de Purcell (Eneas), Venus and Adonis (Adonis) by John Blow, Le Carnaval et La Folie de Destouches (Momus) with Os Músicos do Tejo (Marcos Magalhães) and Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo de Cavalieri with AKAMUS (Rene Jacobs) at the Staatsoper Berlin. Hugo Oliveira also sang the Orfeo de Monteverdi (Plutone) with the Divino Sospiro (Enrico Onofri) and, as Charon, with the French ensemble Akadêmia (Françoise Lasserre) in Delhi and Paris. Hugo Oliveira also worked with Jordi Saval (Les Concert des Nations), Bruno Weil (Wallfisch Band), Gabriel Garrido (Ensemble Elyma), Andrzej Kosendiak (Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra), Keneth Weiss, Nigel North, Lawrence Cummings, Christophe Rousset.