BENJAMIN BUNSOLD

Benjamin Bunsold has sung a wide variety of operatic and concert engagements. Performances include Roméo (Roméo et Juliette) for Center Stage Opera in California, Emperor Altoum (Turandot) with the Fairbanks Symphony in Alaska, Rinnucio (Gianni Schicchi) for Winter Opera St. Louis, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) for Ohio State Opera Theater, and Romualdo (Clarimonde) with Cleveland Opera Theater. Other notable roles include Fenton (Falstaff) with Opera Idaho and Forth Worth Opera, Alfredo (La Traviata) with Asheville Lyric Opera, Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) with Shreveport Opera, Alfred (Die Fledermaus) with St Petersburg Opera, Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore) with Opera in the Heights (TX), Frederick (Pirates of Penzance) for Opera New Jersey, and Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Sevilla) with Center Stage Opera. He has also performed leading roles with Opera Memphis, Charlottsville Opera, Opera Columbus (OH), Arbor Opera Theater, Opera Delaware, Opera North Carolina, and for the Drei Groschen Oper in Munich, Germany. He has been a Young Artist with Fort Worth Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Utah Festival Opera, and Opera Tampa.

An active concert soloist, Bunsold has performed Handel’s Messiah with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Kalamazoo Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. He has been tenor soloist in Carmina Burana with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem at Virginia Tech University, and the Paducah Symphony, and has performed numerous recitals such as Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Britten's Serenade Op. 31 for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. Concerts include tenor soloist in the “Great American Voices” Concert Tour sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts, tenor soloist in Saint-Saëns' Christmas Oratorio with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Beethoven Mass in C with the Knox County Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem for the Fairbanks Symphony in Alaska, Handel’s Messiah at Bluffton University, and guest artist at Heidelberg University’s Christmas Concert. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Ohio Wesleyan University, a Master of Music from the University of Illinois, and has completed additional graduate work at the Ohio State University. He lives in central Ohio with his family.