A native Texan, the young tenor Hugo Vera is described as possessing a “truly heroic voice” that is both “beautiful and brilliant.”  Increasingly in demand and a recent addition to The Metropolitan Opera artist roster, Mr. Vera has performed 33 roles and 20 choral orchestral works with distinguished companies in the US as part of his musical and artistic development of the full lyric and spinto tenor repertoire.  Mr. Vera has sung with the Spoleto, USA Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Minnesota Opera, Chautauqua Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Illinois Symphony and Chorus, Fort St. Symphony and Chorus, Opera Memphis, Aspen Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Sarasota Opera, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera North, Aspen Opera Theatre, Sarasota Opera, Opera North, Aspen Opera Theatre, Nashville Opera, Shreveport Opera, and Tanglewood Music Festival. Role debuts in recent seasons include Radames for Memphis Opera, Philemon in Haydn’s Philemon and Baucis for Spoleto, USA, Trin (La Fanciulla del West) and Abdallo (Nabucco) for The Metropolitan Opera, and Voce Tenore at Avery Fisher Hall in the acclaimed North American premiere of Mascagni’s Il Piccolo Marat with Teatro Grattacielo. Recent and upcoming seasons include a reprise of Alfredo (La Traviata) for Winter Opera, the tenor solo in Rossini's "Stabat Mater" with the Augusta Choral Society, Alfred in Strauss' Die Fledermaus, a return to The Metropolitan Opera for several assignments including Ruiz (IlTrovatore), a company debut with the distinguished Pittsburgh Opera singing Cavaradossi (Tosca) and a company and role debut with Center City Opera Theater in Philadelphia singing Neruda (Il Postino).