This season, baritone Weston Hurt returns to the New York City Opera as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, and makes his debuts at the Arizona Opera as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and at the El Paso Opera as Amonasro in Aida. He recently made his debuts at the Bard Music Festival and at the New York City Opera as Frank in Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt, the Opera Orchestra of New York as Baldassare in L’Arlesiana, and the American Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Der ferne Klang in Avery Fisher Hall.  

Also a prolific concert singer and recitalist, Mr. Hurt has performed in recitals sponsored by the prestigious Marilyn Horne Foundation in the United States, and has also performed in concert internationally, including a South American tour of performances of the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem in the summer of 2006. This season, he is presented again in recital by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and makes his debuts with the Nashville Symphony and the Oratorio Society of New York in Carnegie Hall. His large repertoire also includes such works as the Handel Messiah, the Fauré Requiem, the Orff’Carmina Burana, the Bach Mass in B Minor and Magnificat, the Mozart Mass in C Minor and Coronation Mass, the Haydn Paukenmesse  and the Britten War Requiem, which he sang at Carnegie Hall. 

A graduate of the prestigious Julliard Opera Center, Mr. Hurt has received by many notable vocal awards, including  1st place and the People’s Choice Award from the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, the Vienna Prize from the George London Foundation, 1st Place in the 2003 Oratorio Society of New York Competition, and  various awards from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Competition, Liederkranz Foundation, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Index, Inc., Palm Beach Opera Competition, and two career grants conferred by The Santa Fe Opera.