Ruby Hughes
Soprano Ruby Hughes is equally active in historically oriented performances of Baroque music and in traditional repertory from Classical to contemporary. She also has a vigorous career in art song, often with Julius Drake or Joseph Middleton as accompanist.
Hughes was born in 1980 in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, U.K., and is of Welsh background. Her mother was the potter Elizabeth Fritsch. Hughes took up the cello and pursued the instrument for some years before switching to singing. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music in London and went on as a cellist to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, switching to voice studies while she was there, earning concert and art song diplomas. Hughes finished her education at the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Lillian Watson and graduating in 2009. Winner of two of Britain's most prestigious career development awards, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and designation as a BBC New Generation Arts, she won a pair of prizes at the London Handel Singing Competition in 2009. Her recording debut came in 2013 on the Fra Bernardo label with the Bach cantata album Wie Freudig Ist Mein Herz.
Soon, Hughes was finding operatic roles in England and beyond. Her debut came at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 2009 as Ruggiero in Rossini's Tancredi, but many of her early roles were in Baroque opera; she returned to the Theater an der Wien as both Fortuna in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Euridice in that composer's Orfeo. Hughes has sung with many opera companies in Britain, including the English National Opera, the Garsington Opera, and the Scottish Opera. In the mid-2010s, she often began to perform art song, making recital debuts at the Frick Collection in New York in 2015 with Drake as accompanist, and she appeared on the seventh volume of the Hyperion label's complete Richard Strauss song cycle that year.
In 2017, Hughes appeared at Carnegie Hall, singing a new song cycle she had commissioned from composer Huw Watkins. In concert, she has sung under both conductors of traditional repertory, including Gianandrea Noseda, and specialists in historical performance, such as Hervé Niquet and Philippe Herreweghe. Hughes signed with the BIS label and released the Baroque chamber album Heroines of Love and Loss in 2017. In 2021, she joined Middleton for the recital album Songs for New Life and Love, featuring music by Mahler, Ives, and Helen Grime. She continued to issue innovative thematic recitals on BIS, including Renewal (2022, with the United Strings of Europe), Echo (2022, with pianist Huw Watkins), and End of My Days (2024, with the Manchester Collective).
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Diskografie
20 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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End of My Days
Ruby Hughes, Manchester Collective
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 19.01.2024
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection"
Ruby Hughes, Sasha Cooke, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 01.02.2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Dowland: Lachrimae
Thomas Dunford, Ruby Hughes, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Paul Agnew
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 26.03.2013
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Handel's Last Prima Donna
Ruby Hughes, Laurence Cummings, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Mélodies - Erschienen bei Chandos am 23.03.2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Heroines of Love & Loss
Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei BIS am 03.03.2017
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Clytemnestra: Orchestral Songs
Ruby Hughes, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Jac van Steen
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 03.01.2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Nocturnal Variations
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Champs Hill Records am 01.04.2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Edward Nesbit: Sacred Choral Music
The Choir of King's College, London, Ruby Hughes, Joshua Simões
Klassik - Erschienen bei Delphian Records am 25.03.2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Renewal
United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul, Ruby Hughes
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 07.01.2022
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Purcell Songs realised by Britten
Ruby Hughes, Allan Clayton, Joseph Middleton
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Champs Hill Records am 01.04.2016
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Bach: "Wie Freudig Ist Mein Herz" Cantatas for Soprano
Klassik - Erschienen bei fra bernardo am 04.09.2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Songs for New Life and Love
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 06.08.2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ruby Hughes - Musica Saeculorum - Philip von Steinaecker
Ruby Hughes, Musica Saeculorum, Philipp von Steinaecker
Geistliche Kantaten - Erschienen bei fra bernardo am 04.09.2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
End of My Days
Ruby Hughes, Manchester Collective
Klassik - Erschienen bei BIS am 19.01.2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
R. Strauss: Complete Songs, Vol. 7
Günter Haumer, Ruby Hughes, Roger Vignoles
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 29.03.2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Evening Psalms: I. Psalm 121
The Choir of King's College, London, Ruby Hughes
Klassik - Erschienen bei Delphian Records am 04.03.2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mass: I. Kyrie
The Choir of King's College, London, Ruby Hughes
Klassik - Erschienen bei Delphian Records am 24.02.2022
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R. Strauss: Complete Songs, Vol. 7
Günter Haumer, Ruby Hughes, Roger Vignoles
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 29.03.2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo