Photo credit: James Glossop, The Mikado, Scottish Opera, 2016.

Northern Irish baritone, Ben McAteer is an alumnus of the National Opera Studio in London and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Before embarking on a musical career he studied Chemistry at the University of St Andrews.

​Operatic highlights to date include Schaunard La Bohème, Count Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro, Officer Two/Blazes The Lighthouse and Father Hansel & Gretel all with Irish National Opera; Falke Die Fledermaus and Goryanchikov From the House of the Dead for Welsh National Opera; Eisenstein Die Fledermaus and Papageno The Magic Flute for Northern Ireland Opera; Dr Pangloss/Voltaire Candide with the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra and Frank/Fritz Die Tote Stadt with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. An avid performer of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, Ben has played the Earl of Mountararat Iolanthe at English National Opera, Pooh-Bah in The Mikado with Lyric Opera Ireland and Pish-Tush with Scottish Opera, where he recently took on the roles of The Grand Inquisitor in The Gondoliers and King Paramount in Utopia, Limited.

This autumn Ben returns to Irish National Opera as Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale and makes his Wexford Festival Opera debut as Baskir in Félicien David's opera comique, Lalla Roukh.

​Ben has recorded the role of Jesus in Arthur Sullivan’s oratorio The Light of the World and Rupert Vernon in his operetta Haddon Hall, both with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He also features on a new CD of undiscovered songs by the Irish composer Ina Boyle.
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