BENJAMIN WERLEY

TENOR

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

Piedmont Opera

Canio

Pagliacci

November 8, 9, & 11, 2025

resonance works

RoméO

RoméO Et Juliette

June 19 & 21, 2026

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

RECENT APPEARANCES

2025:

Pittsburgh Festival opera

An Evening under the stars with our stars

Southern Illinois Music Festival

Lord Riccardo Percy

anna Bolena

Nemorino

L'elisir D'amore

Virginia Opera

Sheriff Garnett Brooks/Judge Leon M. Bazile

Loving v virginia (world premiere)

San Diego Opera

Narraboth

Salome

Pittsburgh Concert Chorale

Tenor SOloist

Verdi: Messa da Requiem

EL Paso Opera

Roméo

Roméo et Juliette

2024:

New Jersey Festival orchestra

Return of the Holiday Tenors

Salt marsh opera

Opera in the park

Opera Festival of Chicago

Des Grieux

Manon Lescaut

ST. Pete Opera

Edgardo

Lucia di Lammermoor

nEw Jersey Festival Orchestra

Edgardo

Lucia di Lammermoor

Virginia Opera

Judge/Sherriff

Loving v. Virginia (workshop)

2023:

Opera Edwardsville

December Concert

Opera Ithaca

The Prince

Rusalka

salt marsh opera

fenton

falstaff

Southern Illinois Music Festival

Ruggero

La Rondine

Ernani

Ernani (Concert)

The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace

Southern Illinois Symphony

Tenor Soloist

Beethoven's 9th symphony

2022:

St. Pete Opera

Cavaradossi

Tosca

Southern Illinois Music Festival

Herod

Salome

Pittsburgh Opera

Concert at Hartwood Acres

PIttsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Tenor Soloist

Beethoven's 9th symphony

Anchorage Opera

Cavaradossi

Tosca

Pacific Opera Project

Count Vaudémont

Iolanta

2021:

CLEVELAND OPERA THEATER

KIng Kaspar

Amahl and the Night visitors

Indianapolis Opera

Don Ottavio

don Giovanni

Dayton OPERA

Nemorino

L'elisir D'amore

PITTSBURGH CONCERT SOCIETY

Major Artist Awards Recital

RAVINIA FESTIVAL

Fellow

ravinia Steans Music Institute

CLEVELAND OPERA THEATER

Opera for all summer concert series

Pittsburgh Opera

Soloist

Summer Concert Series

Pittsburgh FEstival Opera

Voce al fresco young artist Concert Series

2020:

St. Pete Opera

The duke of Mantua

Rigoletto

2019:

DAYTON Philharmonic Orchestra

New Year's Eve Gala

SALT MARSH OPERA

Canio

Pagliacci

CENTRAL CITY OPERA

Red Whiskers/Captain Vere (cover)

Billy Budd

DAYTON OPERA

Narraboth/Second Jew

Salome

CLEVELAND OPERA THEATER

Alfredo

La traviata

2018:

VIRGINIA OPERA

Lippo Fiorentino

Street Scene

WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY

Tenor Soloist

Beethoven's 9th symphony

FLORIDA GRAND OPERA

Narraboth/Second Jew

Salome

Arturo

Lucia di Lammermoor

highlighted performance:

Dear Theo by Ben Moore

Benjamin Werley, tenor

Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, piano

Performed at the Ravinia Music Festival

August 9, 2021

In the press:

"As Canio, Benjamin Werley wields his agile tenor voice to give the character complexity. He is all bon ami in one scene and terrifying rage in the next. His interpretation of 'Vesti la giubba' – 'Put on the costume' – is dazzling and heartbreaking."

-LYNN Felder, Cultural voice of North Carolina

"Edgardo, sung by tenor Benjamin Werley...had all the warmth and conviction needed for the tragic hero. His “Verranno a te sull’aure” rendezvous love duet with Sandoval was expressive and passionate. He showed glimpses of heavier, heroic shades and legato phrasing in his Act III marathon, ending with “Tu che a Dio spiegasti l’ali,” sung after Raimondo tells him Lucia is dead."
-COURTNEY SMITH, NJArts.net

"... the blind, all-consuming ardor of tenor Benjamin Werley’s Don José was never in doubt. Werley wielded a gleaming, flexible tenor and had the confidence to let his performance build and deepen. The contrast between his fresh-faced, clean-cut stoicism in Act I and his vulnerable, ragged desperation in the harrowing conclusion was extreme."
-OPERA NEWS

"As Narraboth, the captain of Herod’s guard, Benjamin Werley displayed a strong stage presence and a powerful tenor with thrilling high notes."
-South Florida Classical Review

BENJAMIN WERLEY

TENOR

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

RECENT APPEARANCES

2021:

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highlighted performance:

In the press:

"As Canio, Benjamin Werley wields his agile tenor voice to give the character complexity. He is all bon ami in one scene and terrifying rage in the next. His interpretation of 'Vesti la giubba' – 'Put on the costume' – is dazzling and heartbreaking."