On the opera stage his roles include Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Charles Court Opera and Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata for Nevill Holt and Oxford Opera. At Garsington Opera he has covered Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Krusina in The Bartered Bride.
A specialist in early music, he has appeared with Les Arts Florissants and Vox Luminis in The Fairy Queen across Europe and South America, performed solos in Bach cantatas with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and performed at the Aldeburgh, SmorgasChord and London Handel festivals. With Figure Ensemble he sang Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri at the Swiss Church, Covent Garden, a performance The Times called "whole-hearted, enveloping audiences in glorious sound". He has performed a programme of Schütz and Praetorius with Jonathan Cohen at Wigmore Hall, and has made festival debuts at Lucerne, George Enescu and Tanglewood, with further appearances at the BBC Proms, La Scala, Milan, Lincoln Center, New York, and the Philharmonie de Paris.
He has recorded the role of Abner in Handel's Saul with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen.
A Britten-Pears Young Artist from 2017 to 2019 and a former member of the Les Arts Florissants Young Artist Programme, he is a recipient of the Help Musicians UK Maidment Award and the Audience Prize at the Somerset Song Prize. He was a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and studied at the Royal College of Music.
British baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson, described by The Guardian as "a real stage animal" and "particularly charismatic" for performances of "great subtlety and wit", sings across the operatic and concert repertoire.
Recent and forthcoming highlights include his Glyndebourne debut as Pastore II in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, in a new production by William Kentridge conducted by Jonathan Cohen, a return to Glyndebourne to create the role of Ember/Dad in Spark, a new family opera by Lucy Armstrong and Olivia Bell, the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro for Oxford Opera, and the creation of Papageno in Damon Albarn's The Magic Flute II: The Curse in Paris.