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Photo: From the artist’s archives
Ruby Hughes After winning 1 st Place and the audience prize at
the London Handel Festival Singing Competition
in 2009, Ruby Hughes debuted on the stage of
Theater an der Wien in the role of Roggiero in
G. Rossini’s Tancredi under the baton of René
Jacobs. There as well, she also appeared as Fortuna
in C. Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea.
She has taken part in projects prepared by such
ensembles and festivals as the Opera Group, Opéra
de Toulon, Classical Opera Company, Early Opera
Company, Die Lautten Compagney, Musikfestspiele
Potsdam Sanssouci, Musikwerkstatt Wien and
Potsdamer Winteroper. The artist has concertized
with the Academy of Ancient Music, Akademie für
Alte Musik, Barockorchester Stuttgart, BBC Concert
Orchestra, Cappella Amsterdam, Le Concert Lorrain,
Huddersfield Choral Society, London Mozart
Players, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Musica
Saeculorum, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
and Philharmonia, under the direction of such
conductors as Freider Bernius, Olof Boman,
Stephen Cleobury, Laurence Cummings, Christian
Curnyn, Pablo Heras-Casado, Wolfgang Katschner,
Marc Minkowski, Daniel Reuss, Ian Page, Andreas
Spering, Christoph Spering, Stephan Schultz,
Johannes Wildner and Takuo Yuasa. Concerts
with her participation are frequently broadcast
by European radio and television stations (SR2,
BBC, RTÉ, ORF, Radio France, Deutschlandradio
Kultur). The singer’s plans for the immediate
future include performances in projects with Sir
Jonathan Miller (J. S. Bach’s Passion According to
St. Matthew, Royal National Theatre in London)
and Harry Christophers (G. F. Handel’s Saul at the
Buxton Festival), preparation of several operatic
roles (Minerva in C. Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse
in patria, English National Opera; the title role in
G. F. Handel’s Atalanta, London Handel Festival),
as well as a recital accompanied by pianist Julius
Drake at the Pollok House Arts Society in Glasgow.
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