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Benjamin Russell

After cutting his teeth in the ensemble of Germany's Hessisches Staatstheater, baritone Benjamin Russell has appeared on opera and concert stages in that country and throughout the British Isles. His repertoire is broad, covering works by the masters (Wagner, Mozart, and Puccini) but also new works, including in premiere productions of operas by Frank Schwemmer and Søren Nils Eichberg. In 2024, Russell was heard on a recording of the Irish song cycles of Charles Villiers Stanford. Russell was born in Dublin, Ireland, and attended the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he studied with Brenda Hurley and Sylvia O'Regan. He earned several competition honors in 2010, including being a finalist and earned the Joan Sutherland prize for "Most Promising Singer" in the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, and he was a semifinalist and prizewinner in the International Vocal Competition in s'Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The following year, Russell appeared in an Aldeburgh Festival production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia; a recording of that performance was released in 2013 on the Virgin Classics label, marking Russell's recording debut and earning a Grammy Award nomination. After spending a year in the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera, he moved to Germany in 2014 and joined the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden. He appeared there in productions of Wagner's Tannhäuser and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. In 2019, Russell won the Richard Tauber Prize at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition for best interpretation of Schubert lieder. Russell made recital recording debut in 2021 with pianist Christina Domnick on the album Whither Must I Wander, featuring songs by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, and Korngold. In 2023, he made his debut at the Irish National Opera, and at the Hessisches Staatstheater, he created the role of Snowman in Søren Nils Eichberg's Oryx and Crake. The following year, he joined mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty and pianist Finghin Collins on the Somm Recordings album Charles Villiers Stanford: Cushendall - Irish Song Cycles, which included several premiere recordings.
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