Biography

Previously for HGO, Weston Hurt perform the role of Scarpia in Tosca (2015). During the 2023-24 season, he joined the roster of The Metropolitan Opera for the first time, covering Alvaro in Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas. Last season featured several returns to signature roles, including Germont with Lyric Opera of Kansas City in La traviata, Scarpia with Arizona Opera in Tosca, and Sharpless in Madame Butterfly with New Orleans Opera. On the concert stage, he joined Opera Roanoke for Britten’s War Requiem, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra for Verdi’s Requiem, and Madison Opera for their outdoor Opera in the Park concert. In the 2021-22 season, Hurt joined the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras in concerts of La traviata, and made his Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony debut with the Alabama Symphony. Notable opera engagements have included his role debut as the title character in Nabucco at Seattle Opera, his debut with New Orleans Opera as Germont in La traviata, his role debut as Iago in Otello with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and a return to Seattle Opera in another role debut as Talbot in Maria Stuarda. A graduate of the prestigious Juilliard Opera Center, Hurt has received 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, and 1st Place in the 2003 Oratorio Society of New York Competition, as well as various awards from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Competition, Liederkranz Foundation, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Index, and Palm Beach Opera Competition, and two career grants conferred by The Santa Fe Opera.