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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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.  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), Anchorage Opera (Don José, Carmen | Cavaradossi, Tosca), St. Petersburg Opera (Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor | Cavaradossi, Tosca), Opera Festival of Chicago (Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut), Central City Opera (Red Whiskers, Billy Budd), Dayton Opera (Narraboth, Salome | Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore), and Opera Ithaca (Rusalka). He is a frequent collaborater with the Southern Illinois Music Festival (Ruggero, La rondine | Percy, Anna Bolena | Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore | Herod, Salome) and has also been heard at Salt Marsh Opera (Falstaff, Opera in the Park, Pagliacci), Winter Opera St. Louis, and the New Jersey Festival Orchestra (Lucia di Lammermoor).

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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. He returned to the New Jersey Festival Orchestra for their Return of the Holiday Tenors concert.

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Upcoming engagements include his Opera Montana debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca, 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. He also will make his debut at Arizona Opera as Antonin Scalia in Scalia/Ginsburg.