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Tenor

BEN
BLISS

Mr. Bliss was most recently praised as "a peer of the best Toms in the opera’s seven-decade history" (Voix des Arts) in The Rake's Progress at the The Metropolitan Opera, where he returns for the 2024-2025 season in Grounded and Die Zauberflöte. He will make his operatic debut with Opéra National de Paris, as well as appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, and more.

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UP NEXT: OPERNHAUS ZURICH

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CAPRICCIO

MAY-JUNE, 2021

A NEW PRODUCTION

The question of the value relationship between sound and word in opera is as old as the genre itself – and at the heart of Richard Strauss’ conversation piece Capriccio. It is his last opera, written when he was nearly 80. Capriccio, however, is anything but dry discourse about the dominance of language or music in opera. Rather, it is an ambiguous game that virtuously links the characters’ discussions of art with their erotic entanglements. In a salon near Paris, a theater director, a poet, a composer, and actress, and the count who loves her passionately discuss the nature of various artistic genres. The count suggests performing an opera about the very topic of their discussion, about themselves, about «the events of the day today, what we experienced». Mr. Bliss appears as Flamand.

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Mr. Bliss performs in Capriccio in Zürich May-June, 2020.

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UP NEXT:THE BAVARIAN STATE OPERA

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

JUNE 30-JULY 22,2024

The opera Pelléas et Mélisande, premiered in Paris in 1902, is based on the drama of the same name by the Flemish Symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck, a tragically ending fairytale love triangle about the stepbrothers Golaud and Pelléas and the mysterious Mélisande, whom they both love. The actual plot remains vague, but Claude Debussy also explores psychological depths in his opera and addresses subliminal mental processes. Pelléas et Mélisande is a tragedy of inwardness, enigmatic, morbid, deeply sad and full of beauty. Dutch director Jetske Mijnssen will be directing the production. Tenor Ben Bliss sings the title role.

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Bavarian State Opera

June 30 - July 22, 2024 

"Ben Bliss is wonderful as Ferrando, with an ideally sweet voice & boyish earnestness."

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TIMES

March 16, 2018

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YORK

CLASSICAL

REVIEW

March 16, 2018

"Bliss’s graceful, flowing performance of “Un’aura amarosa” was the most musically compelling moment of the performance."

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERa presents:

GROUNDED

SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 19, 2024

Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori’s kaleidoscopic score and a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes Jess’s husband. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging presents a variety of perspectives on the action.

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