Francis Hubert
Hubert Francis - tenor
Tenor Hubert Francis is a former member of The Royal Opera’s Young Artists Programme. His roles for The Royal Opera since leaving the Programme have included Hunchback Brother (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Spoletta (Tosca), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Harlekin (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Trin (La fanciulla del West) and Toby Higgins (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny). In the 2015/16 Season he returns to sing Spoletta and Laïos (Oedipe).
Francis was born in New South Wales and worked for Quantas before embarking on a singing career, training at the Royal Northern College of Music and the London Centre for Theatrical Studies. His engagements include Herod (Salome) in Singapore and Adelaide, Captain (Wozzeck) in Helsinki, Drum Major (Wozzeck) in Paris, New York, Dortmund, Los Angeles, San Francisco, at the Royal Festival Hall and for Welsh National Opera, Chairman Mao (Nixon in China) in Dublin, Shabby Peasant (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) in Toronto, Thibault (Les Vêpres siciliennes) in Amsterdam and Geneva, Terry Bond (Mason’s Playing Away) and Ferdinand (Karl V) for the Bregenz Festival, Vítek (The Makropulos Affair) in Helsinki and Goro (Madama Butterfly) and the Gamekeeper (Rusalka) in Geneva.
Francis appears regularly in concert, in repertory including Beethoven’s Symphony no.9, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel
Aktuella, tidigare och kommande engagemang
Maj-Jun 16  |
Oedipe | Laïos | Royal Opera, London | Dir.: Hussain; Prod.: A Ollé / Valentina Carrasco | |
| Jan-Feb 16 |
Tosca | Spoletta | Royal Opera, London | Dir.: Villaume / Paul Wynne Griffiths; Prod.: Jonathan Kent |
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