Benjamin Lee's sweet timbre and high-arching technical comfort make him the perfect artist for the Tenore di Grazia repertoire.

In the 2019/20 season, Benjamin Lee will be performing as Mottel in Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof), Paris in Offenbach’s La belle Hélène, Pong in Turandot und Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette at Theater Magdeburg. Mr. Lee joined the ensemble of Theater Magdeburg in the 2018/19 season where he sang Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, Rodrigo in Verdi's Otello and 2. Nazarene in Salome. He debuted with Theater Magdeburg in 2018 as Pedrillo in a children’s version of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Previous, heo appeared as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Queen City Opera, Lurcanio in Ariodante, and the tenor solo in Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In a workshop jointly sponsored by CCM, Cincinnati Opera, and the Canadian Opera Company, he sang Antinous in acclaimed songwriter Rufus Wainwright’s opera-in-progress Hadrian. In 2016/17, he made his debut with Opera Theatre of St. Louis as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos, and joined Cincinnati Opera in their production of Robert Xavier Rodríguez's Frida as Alejandro and Leon Trotsky, as well as The Tenor in Missy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar. Read More

Recent performances with Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music have seen Benjamin Lee in the roles of Arbace in Idomeneo, Lucano in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Florville in Rossini's Il signor Bruschino, #5 in Conrad Susa's Transformations, and Gopinath in CCM Opera Fusion's workshop of Jack Perla's Shalimar the Clown. Additionally, he sang Albert in the workshop of Laura Kaminsky's Some Light Emerges, which he went on to perform with Houston Grand Opera's HGOco. He has sung Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and The Father in Seven Deadly Sins with New Orleans' Jukebox Castle.

Mr. Lee received Master of Music degree from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2016 and in 2018 he obtained his Artist Diploma there. He is the 2015 recipient of the John Alexander Award in CCM's annual Corbett Opera Competition. He holds his Bachelor's degree in Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California where he performed the roles of Prince Charming in Cendrillon, First Commissioner in Dialogue of the Carmelites, Il conte Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims, and Lucano in L'incoronazione di Poppea. Read Less

Adam Chapelou - Le Postillon de Lonjumeau Bellini Arturo - I Puritani Elvino - La Sonnambula Donizetti Nemorino - L’Elisir d’Amore Tonio - La Fille du Régiment Arturo, Normanno - Lucia di Lammermoor Ernesto - Don Pasquale Händel Oronte - Alcina Lurcanio - Ariodante Jupiter - Semele Lehár Camille - Die lustige Witwe Monteverdi Lucano - L’Incoronazione di Poppea

Mozart Ferrando - Così fan tutte Don Ottavio - Don Giovanni Belmonte, Pedrillo - Die Entführung Arbace - Idomeneo Mitridate - Mitridate Tamino - Die Zauberflöte Rossini Il Conte Almaviva - Il Barbiere di Siviglia Uberto - La Donna del Lago Don Ramiro - La Cenerentola La Cenerentola - La Cenerentola Le Comte Ory - Le Comte Ory Lindoro - L’Italiana in Algeri Idreno - Semiramide Florville - Il Signor Bruschino Don Narciso - Il Turco in Italia Il Conte Libenskof - Il Viaggio a Reims Richard Strauss Tanzmeister, Brighella, Scaramuccio - Ariadne auf Naxos

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“Benjamin Lee was beyond reproach. Lee is a tenore di grazia with effortless high notes and flawless fioriture.”

Rafael de Acha, SEENANDHEARD-INTERNATIONAL, 2016