About Ben Heppner

Voice type: Tenor

Past performances in our database:

Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick (Dallas Opera, 2010)

Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick (San Francisco Opera Company, 2012)

Florestan in Fidelio (Metropolitan Opera, 2000)

Herman in The Queen of Spades (Barcelona Opera, 2010)

Lohengrin (Los Angeles Opera, 2010)

Lohengrin (Bavarian State Opera, 2011)

Peter Grimes (Royal Opera, 2011)

Tristan in Tristan and Isolde (Royal Opera, 2009)

Tristan in Tristan and Isolde (Canadian Opera, 2013)

Tristan in Tristan and Isolde (Bavarian State Opera, 2011)

Tristan in Tristan and Isolde (Welsh National Opera, 2012)

Tristan in Tristan and Isolde (Houston Grand Opera, 2013)

Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Metropolitan Opera, 2001)

Read our reviews

Date and venue	Title
21-Jun-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden	Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes
English classical music is often associated with the countryside, the landscape and its villages, and Britten's opera Peter Grimes is no exception. But this isn't the gentle, pastoral landscape of Brooke or Housman, and no larks are ascending here: it's a harsh, forbidding place inhabited by harsh, forbidding people whose Christianity has much faith and some hope but a distinct shortage of charity. Read full review...

Date and venue

Title

21-Jun-2011
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes

Image credit: Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes, Orlando Copplestone as his apprentice John © The Royal Opera, Clive Barda 2011

English classical music is often associated with the countryside, the landscape and its villages, and Britten's opera Peter Grimes is no exception. But this isn't the gentle, pastoral landscape of Brooke or Housman, and no larks are ascending here: it's a harsh, forbidding place inhabited by harsh, forbidding people whose Christianity has much faith and some hope but a distinct shortage of charity.
Read full review...

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