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Evan Hughes is an American operatic Bass-Baritone. He has been cited by the Opera News as "strikingly imaginative" and “appealing clarity and emotional heft” by the New York Times.

Career
Until recently, Evan Hughes has performed such roles as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro in San Diego Opera, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Leporello in Don Giovanni in the Zurich Opera House.

Other roles also include Gobrias in Belshazzar at the Zurich Opera .As a committed interpreter of modern music, Hughes has focused particularly on the works of Elliott Carter and Matthias Pintscher. He has premiered two roles in the operas by the composer George Benjamin: "the Protector" in Written on Skin in Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as "the King" in Lessons in Love and Violence with the conductor Kent Nagano. He premiered Carter’s last vocal works including performances with James Levine and the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall and at the Tanglewood music festival. He recorded Matthias Pintscher’s “Songs from Solomon’s Garden” with Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Early Career
From 2010 - 2013, Evan Hughes was a member of the Lindemann Young Artist development program at the Metropolitan Opera. Since then he began his career in Europe as a member of the Sächsiche Staatsoper in Dresden, appearing on stage at Opernhaus Zürich, Metropolitan Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Massimo, the Dutch National Opera and at the Festival d'Aix-En-Provence.

Early life
Evan Hughes grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, in an artistic family. His mother was a Juilliard School trained Soprano and Voice teacher from New York City, and his father, originally from Cardiff, Wales, was an artist and a buildings and grounds manager at the Music Academy of the West Music Festival. Evan Hughes earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music from University of California, Los Angeles, a Master's Degree in Music from the Curtis Institute of Music.

Personal
Evan is currently based in Berlin, Germany.