(Credit: Phil Sharp)

Soprano Ruby Hughes and the Manchester Collective are set to world premiere Edmund Finnis’ “Out of the Dawn’s Mind.”

The work, which will be premiered on tour in Nottingham, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Bristol between June 16-24, is based on five poems by British poet Alice Oswald.

The work’s movements include “A Rushed Account of the Dew,” “Sunday Ballad,” “A Short Story of Falling,” “Shadow,” and “Slowed-Down Blackbird.”

“It’s been a revelation learning Finnis’s song cycle Out of the Dawns mind together with Alice Oswald’s intensely beautiful poetry,” Hughes told OperaWire. “I feel honored to be performing its world premiere. Oswald is acutely aware of the world around us, and is able to articulate something unique about the experience of living within it. Her words work very effectively set to music and especially to Finnis’s sound world. It’s a profound synthesis of words and music and I am convinced audiences will be deeply moved by this extraordinary work.”

Hughes is the 2009 winner of the first prize and audience prize at the London Handel Singing Competition and a former BBC New Generation Artist. She has appeared with such companies as the Theater an der Wein where she made her debut in 2009 as well as the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci. She has also performed with the English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Music Theatre Wales, and Scottish Opera, among others.