Biography
Hector Bloggs is a British baritone, and recent graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of John Evans.
Operatic engagements include the title role in Don Giovanni (W.A. Mozart), Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro (W.A. Mozart), Frank and Dr Falke in Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Silvio in Pagliacci (R. Leoncavallo), Fiorello in il Barbiere di Siviglia (G. Rossini), Marco in Gianni Schicchi (G. Puccini), Sir Thomas Bertram in Mansfield Park (J. Dove). Whilst studying at Guildhall, Hector performed Sid in Albert Herring (B. Britten), and scenes from La Bohème, The Rape of Lucretia, Carmen, Le Nozze di Figaro, Pelléas et Mélisande, Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Manon and Die Fledermaus, as well as covering the title role in Blonde Eckbert (J. Weir), Il Re in La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco (O. Respighi), Melisso in Alcina (F. Handel) and Pedro Paramo in The Star next to the Moon (S. McNeff).
Hector has been involved with various new operas and contemporary music, including the role of Korda in An Image of Stars (S. Meredith) in Spring 2024, , Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre (J. Joubert) at Grimebourne with Green Opera, Father in A Sea Story (W. Gardner) at Guildhall. He debuted the Baritone solo of When I Was A Boy I Lived Like Water (C. Moore) at Queens University Belfast.
Hector has worked with various companies, including the Glyndebourne Summer and Autumn Festivals, Opera North, Grange Park Opera, Westgreen House Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philarmonic Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia. He has worked with conductors such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Robin Ticciati, Vladimir Jurowski, Jessica Cotis, Jack Gonzalez-Harding and many more.
In concert Hector has sung as a soloist for many works, including Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Faure’s Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Carmina Burana and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater as well as Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea and Jesus, Pilate and Bass Soloist in the St John Passion (Bach). In Autumn 2023, Hector was the cover for the Baritone solo in Belshazaar’s Feast at The Barbican where he has since returned to sing Crebillon and Il Maggiorduomo in La Rondine (G. Puccini) with The LSO and Sir Antonio Pappano.
In 2021 Hector won first place in the Courtney Kenny Award from the Association of English Singers and Speakers, and in Spring 2024 he won first place in The Keith Bonnington Competition at Guildhall. He was also a finalist in the 2025 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.
During his time at Guildhall, Hector was a Gwen Catley Scholar, funded by the Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust and a Drake Calleja Scholar 2024-25. He also became a Samling Artist in 2024 and is a 25/26 Opera Prelude Artist.
He returns to Glyndebourne this summer as a Jerwood Young Artist. He will be performing the Wigmaker in Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss) and Cover Mr Redburn, First Lieutenant in Billy Budd (B. Britten). In September 2026 he will be joining the Bayerische Staatsoper Opernstudio.