Sihao Hu

The first-year baritone from Shenzhen, China, has studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Royal College of Music in London. Throughout his college career, he participated in more than 50 performances across his homeland as well as abroad. Highlights of Hu’s operatic experience include creating the title role of Tang Xian Zu for its world premiere in 2017 and reprising it at the Sydney Opera House, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. Other roles in his repertoire include Ping/Turandot, Silvio/Pagliacci, Barmann/Falscher Verrat, Figaro/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Chorèbe/Les Troyens, Germont/La traviata, the title role/Don Giovanni, Guglielmo/Così fan tutte, and Conte Almaviva/Le nozze di Figaro. Formerly an artist at Theater Kiel in Germany, he participated in the 2024 Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. In 2019, Hu won the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, the only standing music-related comprehensive award in China.