Hugo Oliveira
Baritone
Born in Lisbon, Hugo Oliveira was a member of the Porto Opera Studio – Casa da Música, where he took part in productions such as Joaz (Jojada) by Benedetto Marcello under the direction of Richard Gwilt, L’Ivrogne Corrigé (Lucas) by Gluck with musical direction by Jeff Cohen, and Frankenstein! by Heinz-Karl Gruber directed by Pierre-André Valade. In 2006 he performed with the London Symphony Orchestra under François-Xavier Roth at the Barbican Centre in London.
As part of the prestigious opera series at the Concertgebouw – Zaterdagmatinée NPS – he sang in Catalani’s La Wally(Pedone) and Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila (Second Philistine), both under the direction of Giuliano Carella, and in Wagner’s Lohengrin (Dritte Edler), conducted by Jaap van Zweden. At the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Hugo Oliveira appeared as the protagonist in Oscar Strasnoy’s opera Un Retour.
He has also performed as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro at the Coliseu do Porto under the direction of Young-min Park; Orpheus in Darius Milhaud’s Les malheurs d’Orphée with Ebony Band in Paris (Cité de la Musique); Melodias Estranhasby António Chagas Rosa with Stefan Asbury; Paint me (Howard) by Luís Tinoco, conducted by Joana Carneiro; L’enfant et les sortilèges (Fauteuil) under the direction of Wayne Marshall at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas); Blow’s Venus and Adonis (Adonis); Destouches’ Le Carnaval et La Folie (Momus) with Os Músicos do Tejo (Marcos Magalhães); and Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo with AKAMUS (René Jacobs) at the Staatsoper Berlin.
Hugo Oliveira has also sung Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Plutone) with Divino Sospiro (Enrico Onofri) and, as Charon, with the French ensemble Akadêmia (Françoise Lasserre) in Delhi and Paris.
His extensive repertoire also encompasses oratorio, with notable performances including Mozart’s Requiem with the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Michel Corboz); Mozart’s Mass in C minor in France with ONLP (Sascha Goetzel); Liszt’s Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth (Gennadi Rozhdestvensky); Brahms’ Requiem (Marcus Creed); Handel’s Solomon(Paul McCreesh); Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (Martin André); Stravinsky’s Les Noces (Rob Vermeulen); and Gubaidulina’s Jetzt immer Schnee with the Asko Schönberg Ensemble (Reinbert de Leeuw).
Hugo Oliveira has gained international recognition for his interpretation of Bach’s repertoire, working with conductors such as Ton Koopman, Frans Brüggen, Peter Dijkstra, Klaas Stok, Paul Dombrecht, Peter van Heyghen and Václav Luks.
He has also collaborated with Jordi Savall (Les Concert des Nations), Bruno Weil (Wolffish Band), Gabriel Garrido (Ensemble Elyma), Andrzej Kosendiak (Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra), Kenneth Weiss, Nigel North, Laurence Cummings, and Christophe Rousset.