Ben Bliss

Ben Bliss has established himself as one of the most exciting performers on today's operatic stage, both in his native America and internationally. Bliss was a 2021 recipient of the Metropolitan Opera's prestigious Beverly Sills Award. His numerous other accolades include the 2016 Martin E. Segal Award at Lincoln Center, the Mozart and Plácido Domingo awards at the 2015 Francisco Viñas International Competition, first prize at the 2014 Gerda Lissner and Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation competitions, and the 2013 Operalia Don Plácido Domingo Sr. Zarzuela prize.

In 2025–26, Bliss makes his anticipated role debut as the Duke in Rigoletto with the Canadian Opera Company, as well as another role debut as the title role in Idomeneo with Washington Concert Opera. Bliss also returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs in Houston Grand Opera's staged Messiah, and sings Tamino in The Magic Flute with the St. Louis Symphony. Other concert highlights include a return with the Chicago Symphony for a Mozart Requiem, a solo recital at LA Opera, and a Messiah concert tour with the Handel and Haydn Society.

Highlights of Bliss's 2024–25 season include two roles at the Metropolitan Opera — a debut as Eric in Jeanine Tesori's new opera Grounded, and Tamino in The Magic Flute. Bliss also returned to the Opéra national de Paris as Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress and performed the role of Jupiter in Semele for his house debuts at both the Royal Opera House and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Concert engagements included performances with the Metropolitan Opera and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall, as well as with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

While in the Lindemann Program, Bliss made his Metropolitan Opera stage debut in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under James Levine. He made his European debut as Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera on tour in 2015.

Other operatic highlights have included Tamino at the Bavarian State Opera and with leading American opera companies, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Opéra national de Paris and Canadian Opera Company, Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Vienna State Opera and other major houses, Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress for the Boston Lyric Opera, Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande with the Bavarian State Opera, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Flamand in Capriccio and Robert Wilson in Peter Sellars' new production of Dr. Atomic in Santa Fe.