Bio
Ben Reisinger is a tenor from Rochester, New York, currently in his first year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Ben has made the journey from Baritone to Tenor within the year and finds himself happily at home vocally as a Lyric Tenor. During the Met’s 2024–25 Season he will cover the Seatwarmer in the company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s new opera Grounded and cover the First Prisoner in Fidelio.
Previously performing as a baritone, he was a Resident Artist with Detroit Opera and sang in Ainadamar (Maestro) and Faust (Wagner) and covered various roles including Terry in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Elviro in Xerxes, and Valentin in Faust. Additional operatic engagements include Così fan tutte (Guglielmo) and the title role in a concert version of Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, and La Scala di Seta (Blansac) and Die Fledermaus (Dr. Falke) with Michigan State Opera Theatre.
He was recently awarded the 2024 Career Grant from the Sullivan Foundation, the Stephen Phebus Award from the 2023 Opera Index Vocal Competition, and received the Bonnie Bell Encouragement Award in the 2023 James Toland Vocal Arts Competition. In 2020 and 2021, he was the winner of the Michigan District and recipient of the Great Lakes Region Encouragement Award in the Met’s Laffont Competition. He is an alumnus of the Martina Arroyo Foundation’s Prelude to Performance program and Detroit Opera’s Resident Artist Program. He holds degrees in voice from Nazareth College and Michigan State University. In his spare time, Ben enjoys spending time with his Labrador Retriever Hank, and is an avid golfer.