Benson Wilson

Winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Lexus Song Quest, Benson Wilson is a Harewood Artist at English National Opera, for whom he has sung roles including Guglielmo Così fan tutte and Schaunard La bohème.

Roles elsewhere have included Friedrich Bhaer in the UK première of Mark Adamo’s Little Women for Opera Holland Park, Frank / Fritz Die tote Stadt for Longborough Festival Opera and Marullo Rigoletto for Glyndebourne On Tour.

A committed recitalist, he has toured in New Zealand, including programmes at Auckland Chamber Concert Hall and Hawkes Bay Opera House, as well as appearing with pianists including Lucy Colquhoun, Ella O’Neill, James Baillieu, Iain Burnside and Joseph Middleton at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Brighton, Kings Lynn, Leeds Lieder, Ludlow and Oxford Lieder Festivals. He has appeared in concert with the Orchestra of Opera North and sang Finzi’s Et in terra pax for his debut with BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Omaro.

Engagements during 2022 / 2023 include Moralès Carmen and Horemhab Akhnaten for English National Opera, his debut with Welsh National Opera as Schaunard La bohème, Count Ceptano Rigoletto for Opera Holland Park, Messiah with Auckland Choral Society, Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Belshazzar’s Feast at both Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, and with Orchestra Wellington.

A 2019 Salzburg Festival Young Artist, where he sang Mirza Der Gesang der Zauberinsel, and a Samling Artist, Benson Wilson graduated from the University of Auckland and completed his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.

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