| Benjamin Bloomfield |
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| Benjamin Bloomfield has a powerful and rich baritone voice that has charmed audiences and critics alike. In the 2010-11 season, Mr. Bloomfield covered Lavitsky in Boris Godunov at the Metropolitan Opera. He also made his professional international debut with Musica Viva Hong Kong, singing Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore. In the spring he traveled to Berkeley, California, for performances of Supt. Budd in Albert Herring with Maestro Lorin Maazel and the Castleton Festival, followed by concerts at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall of Faure’s Requiem and the Mozart Vespers, along with the Brahms Requiem at Carnegie Hall. This Summer, Benjamin returned to the Castleton Festival to perform various roles in the following operas: Gianni Schicchi, Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Master Pedro’s Puppet Show, La Boheme, and Albert Herring. He begins the fall season as the baritone solo for the Mozart Requiem with the Munich Symphony Tour in October 2011 and Marcello in New York Lyric Opera’s production of La Boheme, followed by a November concert of John Rutter’s music at Carnegie Hall with Mid America Productions. He will be covering Baron Douphol in New York City Opera’s production of La Traviata this coming February. Despite having received his Masters in Music from the Juilliard School only recently in 2010, Mr. Bloomfield has already amassed an impressive resume. On the operatic stage, he has sung Mr. Jenks in The Tender Land at Alice Tully Hall, Bartolo in Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Le Nozze de Figaro with the Lindemann Program at the Metropolitan Opera, and Officer 1 in The Death of Klinghoffer, conducted by the composer, John Adams. Mr. Bloomfield’s flexibility as a performer is apparent in the variety of roles he has played, from Don Giovanni and Don Polidoro in the rarely performed L’Italiana in Londra by Cimarosa, to Il Conte in Le Nozze de Figaro, Michele in Puccini’s Il Tabarro, Morales in Carmen, and Spinelloccio in Gianni Schicchi. Other credits include the Father in Hansel and Gretel with The Opera Theatre of Weston, VT, Pistola in Falstaff at Juilliard School, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas at Manhattan School of Music, and a workshop of a new opera, The Letter, for Santa Fe Opera in New York City. Mr. Bloomfield is also highly in demand as a concert artist. He also made his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in the Mozart Requiem in 2009, and has since performed several works there, including Beethoven’s Mass in C with MidAmerica Productions. Mr. Bloomfield sang the title role in a concert performance of Thomas Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso with enCanta Collective in NYC. He was invited to perform in a Kennedy Center gala concert, led by Maestro Maazel and Marvin Hamlisch. He also covered the role of Leporello in a concert version of Don Giovanni with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, conducted by James Levine. Other concert performances of note include Carmina Burana with Coro Lirico in New Jersey, the Durufle Requiem and the Lord Nelson Mass with the Pro Arte Chorale in New Jersey, the B Minor Mass with the Bach Concert Series in Baltimore, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with the Page 1 -11/11/11 Monmouth Civic Chorus, and The Prologue to Mephistopheles and Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria with the Rockland County Chorale. An active recitalist, Mr. Bloomfield has performed both Schubert’s Die Winterreise and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel in New York. He performed the Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge in recital with other selections at Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Bloomfield was featured on a recording of Scott Eyerly’s new musical, Pooch. While music is by far his main and favorite activity, he can often be found playing his accordion or writing science fiction. He also loves to celebrate his half-Chinese heritage with Chinese and fusion dishes. Wherever his travels take him, Mr. Bloomfield’s favorite souvenir is a new recipe. You can visit his website at www.benjaminbloomfield.com 11/11/11 |