Raising the Curtain

It is his ability to reveal the meaning and emotion embodied in the text and the music that has solidified William Hite’s reputation as an engaging and expressive artist. He has performed orchestral engagements, recitals and operas throughout North America and in Europe in some of the world’s most prestigious and interesting venues including Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall and the Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Kennedy Center, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Theatre an der Wien in Vienna, Versailles, the Herodion at the foot of the Acropolis and Theatre de la Ville in Paris.
William Hite
William Hite
"... a breathtaking communicator
of spoken nuance ..."

~ Anthony Tommasini | The Boston Globe~ Anthony Tommasini
The Boston Globe
 
Upcoming Performances
Upcoming
The 2019–20 season will mark William Hite’s 34th as a professional singer. He will sing and record the role of Henry Gray in Arnold Rosner’s The Chronicle of Nine with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project under Gil Rose. He will return to perform with the Cantata Singers in Boston for the 20th time, taking on the role of Zadok, the High Priest in Handel’s Solomon. In December he will sing Messiah with Chicago’s Apollo Chorus, the ensemble with which he recorded the piece on the Clarion label, and Boston’s Spectrum Singers have invited him to perform Bach’s Magnificat and BWV 130, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir. Recently, Mr. Hite debuted the title role in Eric Sawyer’s opera The Scarlet Professor that deals with the controversial and tragic downfall of the Smith College professor Newton Arvin in the early 1960s. He sang the role of Massimo with Odyssey Opera in Gluck’s Ezio, and Oebalus in Emmanuel Music’s performance of the 11-year-old Mozart’s Apollo et Hyancithus. On the concert stage he returned to the Charlotte Symphony for Messiah, and the Fairfax Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem. And for the first time he sang at the Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston with the Landmarks Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in front of an audience of 5000.
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Recent Accolades
Recent Accolades
Benjamin Britten
In 2018 Steven Ledbetter, writing for The Boston Musical Intelligencer said, “Hite has progressed from strength to strength as a singer of songs.”
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Hugo Wolf
And Lee Eiseman, also writing in 2016 for the Intelligencer said, “The best moments of the afternoon belonged to that estimable Liederist William Hite.”
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Bachtrack’s Kevin Wells wrote: "Diamond sharp diction, elegant, accurate singing, and sensitive phrasing allowed William Hite to meet every vocal and dramatic challenge, most prominently in Act I’s lyrical 'Se povero il ruscello,' which began as an innocent pastoral then morphed into a venomous, insinuating whisper in its repeat."
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“... He didn’t perform the music
so much as share
the profound experience
he was having with it ...”
~ David Patrick Stearns
Philadelphia Inquirer
“... He didn’t perform the music so much as
    share the profound experience he was having
    with it ...”
~ David Patrick Stearns | Philadelphia Inquirer
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