These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut of Weston Hurt.

Baritone Weston Hurt made his U.K. debut last season in the title tole of Verdi’s Rigoletto with English National Opera. In the 2025/26 season, he returns to the role of Germont in Verdi’s La traviata for Utah Opera and Opera Colorado, and sings Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Fort Worth Opera. Engagements on the concert stage include a debut with the Reno Philharmonic for Orff’s Carmina burana. 

Hurt joined the roster of The Metropolitan Opera in the 2023/24 season, covering Alvaro in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas. Additionally, he returned to Houston Grand Opera as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and joined Madison Opera for their annual Opera in the Park concert. In addition to the opera stage, he has performed concert engagements including a South American tour of the Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem and appearances with the Nashville Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and the Oratorio Society of New York in Carnegie Hall. 

A graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center, Hurt has received vocal awards including first place and the People’s Choice Award from the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, the Vienna Prize from the George London Foundation, and first place in the 2003 Oratorio Society of New York Competition, as well as various awards from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Competition, Liederkranz Foundation, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Index, and Palm Beach Opera Competition, and two career grants conferred by The Santa Fe Opera.