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  • 31 January 2024

    ON TOUR: il Pomo d’Oro tours Europe with Joyce DiDonato, Fatma Said and Hugh Cutting

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  • 26 May 2023

    Hugh Cutting debuts at Opernhaus Zürich

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  • 23 May 2022

    Hugh Cutting and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha join BBC New Generation Artist Scheme

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  • 28 March 2022

    Askonas Holt welcomes Hugh Cutting to its roster for general management

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Press

  • Handel | Deborah (Barak)

    Hannover, Göttingen - Germany
    Apr 2024

    • Weltklasse-Countertenor Hugh Cutting singt mitreißend und mit sichtbarer Freude als Barak, dem Anführer der Israeliten. World-class countertenor Hugh Cutting sings rousingly and with visible joy as Barak, the leader of the Israelites.

      • Udo Hinz, Göttinger Tageblatt
      • 15 April 2024

  • St Matthew Passion | Irish Baroque Orchestra

    St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
    Mar 2024

    • Cutting’s colourings ran the gamut, including a clarion lower register – but I’d go so far as to say that this is the most dramatically expressive countertenor singing I’ve ever heard.

  • Bach B Minor Mass | Rundfunk-Sinphonieorchester Berlin

    Konzerthaus Berlin
    Jan 2024

    • Besondere Würdigung verdient der herausragende Altus Hugh Cutting, derzeit BBC New Generation Artist. In seinen beiden Arien „Qui sedes“ und dem „Agnus Dei“ glänzte der junge Brite mit packender Präsenz und schien jeden einzelnen Konzertbesucher im Saal direkt ansprechen zu wollen. The outstanding alto Hugh Cutting, currently a BBC New Generation Artist, deserves special praise. In his two arias "Qui sedes" and the "Agnus Dei", the young Brit shone with a gripping presence and seemed to want to speak directly to every single concertgoer in the hall.

  • Bach Christmas Oratorio | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
    Dec 2023

    • Hugh, warm of tone (this is a really lovely voice), did wonderful things with Schlafe, Mein Liebster and Schliesse, Mein Herz, die Seliger Wunder.

  • Ariodante (Polinesso)

    Philharmonie de Paris
    Oct 2023 - Oct 2023

    • La subtilité du phrasé ainsi que sa puissance constante en font l’un des meilleurs solistes de la soirée. The subtlety of the phrasing as well as his constant power make him one of the best soloists of the evening.

  • Partenope (Arsace)

    Jul 2023

    • Même si tous les jeunes chanteurs du « Jardin des voix » des « Arts Flo » sont admirables, Hugh Cutting (Arsace) est un contre-ténor dont on entendra parler très vite. Il a tout : la puissance, la couleur, la virtuosité, l’émotion. Des moments du calibre de son « Ch’io Parta ? » (« Ainsi je pars », dit-il à Rosmira) de l’acte III, nous n’en avons pas eu souvent à Lanaudière depuis Prélude et mort d’Isolde par Alain Altinoglu. Although all the young singers in the Arts Flo's 'Garden of Voices' are admirable, Hugh Cutting (Arsace) is a countertenor we'll be hearing more about very soon. He has it all: power, colour, virtuosity, emotion. We haven't had moments of the calibre of his "Ch'io Parta" ("Thus I go", he says to Rosmira) in Act III at Lanaudière since Alain Altinoglu's Prelude and Death of Isolde.

  • Bach & Handel Arias

    Carnegie Hall, NY
    Jun 2023

    • Cutting roused his OSL audience to a loud and long ovation when he concluded last week’s concert with Arsace’s “Furibondo.” a dazzling coloratura showpiece in which the beleaguered hero compares his confusion to a furious wind. Cutting whizzed through its challenging roulades with apparent ease while also embracing the aria’s ABA’ structure with burning intensity. ...Cutting delighted in scampering from potent highs to brusquely chesty lows. The aria gave notice that he’s bound to be a deliciously villainous Polinesso when he rejoins LAF this fall for Ariodante. ...the concert’s first half was dominated by Cutting’s radiantly impassioned Vergnügte Ruh. Labadie suggested in his brief opening remarks that Bach likely wrote his few solo alto cantatas for an anonymous Leipzig lad whose voice was likely threatening to change at any moment. Cutting’s boyishly rapt reading recaptured the eager, earnest involvement that must have inspired Bach in 1726.

  • Recital Hugh Cutting & Christopher Glynn

    Ryedale Festival
    May 2023

  • Counter-Tenor Duets with Iestyn Davies

    Wigmore Hall
    Sep 2022

    • It was all delightfully performed ... and when Cutting and Davies performed Purcell’s Sound the Trumpet as an encore, in an arrangement that skipped along like a 17th-century jam session, it brought the house down.

  • Partenope (Arsace)

    Festival de Beaune
    Jul 2022

    • L’Arsace bellement virtuose – mais pas seulement – de Hugh Cutting offre une palette de sentiments et de nuances d’une infinie variété, de la furie (« Furibondo ») au désespoir contenu (« Ch’io parta? »)'. Arsace beautifully virtuoso - but not only - Hugh Cutting offers a palette of feelings and nuances of infinite variety, from fury ("Furibondo”) to restrained despair (“ Ch'io parta? ”)

  • Flight (Refugee)

    Royal College of Music
    Jul 2022

    • Cutting’s resonant, freely projected dramatic arioso captured the Puck-like vivaciousness and optimism of the Refugee as he moved between the travellers, begging for small changes, clothes and a bite to eat, spreading spiritual wisdom and words of love and peace among the bickering couples, and even directing the lustful Steward and Stewardess to a hideaway on Level 2 for a seventeen-minute pre-take off assignation. Cutting’s sound bloomed with astonishing relaxation, power and accuracy, sometimes strengthened by a sonic earthiness, sometimes strangely ‘other’.

    • His brilliant adeptness at negotiating emotion, technique, and historics bodes well for his future career aspirations, and his upcoming debut at the Opernhaus Zürich will be something of merit.

  • Recital Hugh Cutting & George Ireland

    Brighton Festival
    May 2022

    • He is an excellent story-teller and he brought Monteverdi’s Ottone, the husband cuckolded by Nero in ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’, dramatically to the platform. The fragment ended abruptly, leaving us wanting more. Cutting’s pure sound gave it an unearthly quality. To sing the final passage from George Benjamin’s opera ‘Written on Skin’, Cutting made full use of the majestic acoustic and of his vast range of pitch and vocal colour. The result was utterly modern and enthralling. The voice was in full command of the acoustic, showing just how Cutting won the Kathleen Ferrier Award and is now deemed the best young singer of 2021.

    • Not just the tantalising, sumptuous, confiding and surprising vocal communication which countertenor is, but a singer with dramatic awareness and insight, a suddenly telling lowest register, and someone already in demand by opera. Cutting showed incisive intellect in drawing up parallel or allusive examples from the world of aria and lieder. An absorbing and rewarding concert experience.

  • Purcell | Dido and Aeneas (Spirit)

    Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris
    Feb 2024

    • L’Esprit incarné par le contreténor Hugh Cutting est une superbe révélation. Le timbre est souple, chaud et cuivré, la présence scénique remarquable ... nul doute qu’on entend là un des grands contreténors de demain. The Esprit played by countertenor Hugh Cutting is a superb revelation. The timbre is supple, warm and brassy, the stage presence remarkable, ... there is no doubt that we are hearing one of the great countertenors of tomorrow.