Pittsburgh native Benjamin Werley—praised as having a “gleaming, flexible tenor” (Opera News)—has performed with many of the country’s leading opera companies.

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Recent performances include San Diego Opera (Narraboth, Salome), Virginia Opera (Sheriff Garnett Brooks / Judge Leon M. Bazile, Loving v. Virginia), El Paso Opera (Roméo, Roméo et Juliette), Southern Illinois Music Festival (Percy, Anna Bolena | Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore), Anchorage Opera (Don José, Carmen), St. Petersburg Opera (Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor | Cavaradossi, Tosca), Central City Opera (Red Whiskers, Billy Budd), Dayton Opera (Narraboth, Salome | Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore), and Southern Illinois Music Festival (Ruggero, La Rondine).

 

On the concert stage, Werley has appeared as the tenor soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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Equally at home in standard repertoire and contemporary works, Werley has created roles in new operas while continuing to add cornerstone tenor parts to his repertoire.

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Upcoming engagements include his Resonance Works debut as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette and his French debut as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the Musica Le Mans Festival.

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Werley has also been heard with companies and orchestras including Opera Festival of Chicago (Manon Lescaut), Opera Ithaca (Rusalka), Salt Marsh Opera (Falstaff, Opera in the Park, Pagliacci), and the New Jersey Festival Orchestra (Lucia di Lammermoor, Return of the Holiday Tenors). A past fellow of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, he has appeared in concert with the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and the Southern Illinois Symphony.