Sihao Hu

The first-year Ryan Opera Center baritone from Shenzhen, China, studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. This season at Lyric, he will appear in Salome and Madama Butterfly. Hu participated in more than 50 performances across his homeland as well as abroad throughout his undergraduate studies. Highlights of his 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, Hu participated in the 2024 Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. In 2019, he won the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, the only standing music-related comprehensive award in China.

Sihao Hu is sponsored by Richard W. Shepro & Lindsay E. Roberts and Ms. Gay K. Stanek.

^{Last updated: September 3, 2025}