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Biography
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings is the Director of Florida Atlantic Opera Theatre and founder of Opera in Italy, an international summer program run with the Conservatorio di Musica “G. Puccini” La Spezia and open to students from any institution and any major. He is Associate Professor of Voice and Applied Performance Area Coordinator at Florida Atlantic University and serves as President of the South Florida Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. A voting member of the Recording Academy® and an active mentor in its GRAMMY U® program, Hutchings bridges campus and industry. He produced, arranged, and conducted on the album Visions of Sounds De Luxe, which earned a GRAMMY® nomination and the World Entertainment Award for Best R & B Album, while classical albums featuring his work as a producer, Cobalt, Jade, Amethyst ?, and d’Arc, received three Global Music Awards. Praised for a voice of distinctive warmth that “can do anything” (Graham Johnson), Hutchings has sung with Utah Festival Opera, Opera Saratoga, Pensacola Opera, Charlottesville Opera, and Ensemble San Felice in Florence. Concert credits include Handel’s Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, and his solo debut at Carnegie Hall at just twenty-eight years old. Stage highlights feature the title role in Sweeney Todd, directed by Tony nominee Terrence Mann, and over thirty-five roles in opera and musical theatre productions worldwide. He advances technology-driven performance through Opera Hack 3.0 and the European Union project Music Theatre and New Technologies (MTNT). As a €5.28 million initiative funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, the MTNT project brings together European and American institutions to explore the intersection of opera and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) in performance and education. Florida Atlantic University honored him with the 2024 Faculty Talon Leadership Award. Pedagogy insights by Hutchings appear in CS Music, Schmopera, and Modern Singer, and he is an alumnus of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program. Students from his studio continue to sing with companies like Washington National Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and the Croatian National Theatre, win prizes at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and National NATS events, and study at Yale, Harvard, Eastman, Mahattan School of Music, Mannes, Stony Brook, Boston University, Florida State, Frost School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Penn State, CCM, and Peabody, among others. Commercial artists he coaches have reached #2 on the iTunes World/New Age chart, #3 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart, and have been featured in Rolling Stone and many other publications. Hutchings earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, Master of Music in Voice Performance from Florida State University, and Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Western Carolina University.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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Artist Information
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