Ben Bliss Tenor

Biography

Ben Bliss is performing on the greatest international operatic stages. While in the Lindemann Program, Mr. Bliss made his Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Vogelgesang (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), and has since returned there in the roles of Steersman (The Flying Dutchman), Tamino (The Magic Flute) and Belmonte (Il Seraglio). He also made his European debut in the same role with Glyndebourne Festival on tour in 2015.

Other opera highlights include the roles of Tamino at the Los Angeles and Philadelphia Operas, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Seattle, Canada and Frankfurt operas, Tom Rakewell (The Rake's Progress) at the Boston Lyric Opera, Flamand (Capriccio) in Santa Fe. On the concert stage, Ben Bliss debuted with the New York Philharmonic singing Tony in Bernstein’s West Side Story Concert Suite No. 1 with Alan Gilbert, Haydn’s Creation and Cassio in Otello at the Cincinnati May Festival with James Conlon.

These last seasons, he portrayed Ferrando at the San Francisco Opera, Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride) at the Opéra de Rouen and Tom Rakewell, Tamino and Don Ottavio at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Tamino at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Don Ottavio at the Canadian Opera Company.

During the 2024-2025 season, his roles include Eric (Grounded) and Tamino at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Jupiter (Sémélé) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Royal Opera House in London.

He is the 2013 Operalia Don Plácido Domingo prizewinner in the Zarzuela category, first prize in the 2014 Gerda Lissner and Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation competitions, a 2016 recipient of the Martin E. Segal award at Lincoln Center and winner of the 2021 Beverly Sills Prize of the Metropolitan Opera.

At the Paris Opera: Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio), 2023

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