Benjamin Bevan
Baritone
Born into a family of musicians, Benjamin Bevan originally worked in the wine trade before studying voice at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He made his professional operatic with Scottish Opera, and has since performed with many leading Opera Houses and Orchestras internationally.
Benjamin Bevan | Sharpless excerpts | Madama Butterfly | May 2022
Benjamin Bevan | Usher House | Getty
Benjamin Bevan | Elijah | Lord God of Abraham
Bevan’s recent engagements include Starveling in a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the musical directorship of Donato Renzetti (Teatro Carlo Felice di Genoa & Royal Opera House Oman); Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the baton of Christopher Ward (Theater Aachen); Betto and cover Michele Il Trittico (Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera); conducted by Alexander Joel; and Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Longborough Festival Opera); and on the concert platform he sings a series of Bach’s Matthäus Passion in the Netherlands.
His operatic highlights include Sprecher Die Zauberflöte and Henry Cuffe Gloriana (Royal Opera House); Lescaut Boulevard Solitude (Royal Danish Opera); Ferryman Curlew River (Opéra de Dijon); Stankar Stiffelio (Theater Aachen); Lescaut Manon, Marcello La bohème, Riccardo I Puritani, and Fleville and Fouquier-Tinville Andrea Chenier (Scottish Opera); Pontius Pilate in a staged production of Bach’s Johannes Passion (Nederlandse Reisopera); Roderick Usher in Usher House, Lescaut Boulevard Solitude, Dancaire Carmen, and White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Welsh National Opera); Sprecher The Magic Flute, Der Haushofmeister Capriccio (Garsington Opera); Baron Douphol La traviata (English National Opera); Geronte Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park); title role in Faust Alberta by Simone Spagnolo (London); and Merriman and Lane in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest under the baton of Thomas Adès (Barbican, London). He has also worked with Aix-en-Provence Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opera de Lausanne under the baton of leading international conductors such as Sir Richard Armstrong, Cornelius Meister, Carlo Rizzi, Jac van Steen, Mazaaki Suzuki, Donato Renzetti, Jérémie Rhorer, Pietro Rizzo, Alexander Joel, Paul McCreesh; Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Adès, Harry Bickett, and Nicholas Kraemer.
Bevan performs regularly in concert internationally, notable engagements including Handel’s Messiah (Bach Collegium Japan; Minnesota Orchestra; Colorado Symphony Orchestra; The English Concert; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Irish Baroque Orchestra); St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony (Bach Collegium Japan); King Arthur (Paris; London; Manchester; Birmingham); Weihnachts Oratorium (Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Monaco; Nice); St. Matthew Passion (Bach Collegium Japan; Royal Northern Sinfonia; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Bach Choir of the Netherlands); Mozart Requiem (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); St. John Passion (Irish Chamber Orchestra; Barcelona; Madrid: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra); B Minor Mass (The Three Choir’s Festival); The Dream of Gerontius (Snape Maltings); Carmina Burana (BBC Concert Orchestra); Bach Cantatas (Perth International Festival, Australia); and Vaughan Williams Hodie (MDR Leipzig Gewandhaus).