Ben Connor
The Australian baritone Ben Connor is a member of the ensemble of the Volksoper Wien, where in the 2020/21 season, among other things, he will make his role debut as Count Danilo Danilowitsch (Lèhar: The Merry Widow). As in the premiere series in 2019, this season he will also be heard as Sir Simon (Lage: Da Gespenst von Canterville). Last season he celebrated great success as Tommy (Lerner / Loewe: Brigadoon) in a semi-staged performance series of the musical.
Other roles that he has sung at the Volksoper Wien include Figaro (Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Marcello (Puccini: La Bohème), Falke (Strauss: Die Fledermaus), Freddy (Loewe: My Fair Lady), Mandarin (Puccini: Turandot), Baron Douphol (Verdi: La Traviata), Stefano (Donizetti: Viva la Mamma), Morales (Bizet: Carmen), Jake (Gershwin: Porgy and Bess), Der Kalif (Writhgt / Forrest : Kismet) and Herrmann (Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzählungen) as well as the baritone part in Orff’s Carmina Burana.
From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Theater an der Wien, where he performed Baron Douphol, Guccio (Puccini: Gianni Schicchi), Truchseß von Waldburg (Hindemith : Mathis the painter) and Coryphée (Rossini: Le Comte Ory). At the Wiener Kammeroper he sang Marcello, Dandini (Rossini: La Cenerentola), Slook (Rossini: La cambiale di matrimonio) and Amazonier (Kargel: Mare Nostrum). In August 2013 he was again on stage as Marcello at the Amsterdam Canal Festival, and the following summer he played Freddy in My Fair Lady at the OperettenSommer Kufstein. His concert appearances have takne him to Australia, Austria, Estonia, Poland and Germany.
Ben Connor completed his vocal studies at the Australian National University in 2009, where he received the Harmony Endowment. He has lived in Vienna since 2010 and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts until 2012. He is a Prize winner of the Australian National Eisteddfod and the Orange Eisteddfod competition and scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association. In August 2013 he was named “New Artist of the Month” by Musical America magazine.
Schedule
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Count Danilo Danilowitsch
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Loewe: My Fair Lady
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Barition
Orff: Carmina Burana