Benjamin Wallace

Baritone

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) / Figaro - August 24th & 26th

Ben Wallace is a “versatile and vocally powerful” (Opera Canada) baritone, conductor, pianist, and teacher currently studying in the University of Toronto opera program. He was the recipient of the Laurier Alumni Gold Medal, a finalist for UofT’s Norcop Prize in Song, and a winner of the Laurier Concerto Competition. Recent solo performances include Bird in a workshop performance of Ian Cusson’s new chamber opera Indians on Vacation (Banff Centre), Pandolfe in Cendrillon (UofT Opera), Le Dancaïre/Moralès in Carmen (Southern Ontario Lyric Opera), Billy Bigelow in Carousel (Cambridge Symphony/P&P), Duruflé’s Requiem (Grand Philharmonic Choir), Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem (Symphony in the Barn), John Brooke in Little Women (Opera Laurier), and Barone Douphol/Dottore Grenvil in La traviata (KW Symphony). Ben formed his own KW-based chamber choir and orchestra in 2022 and has since conducted the world premières of three choral works by Canadian composer Justin Lapierre.