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.
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The Mikado, Scottish Opera, 2016.
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Recent operatic highlights include Eisenstein Die Fledermaus for Northern Ireland Opera, Frank/Fritz Die Tote Stadt with the RTE NSO, Astrologer/Abbot The Burning Fiery Furnace at Southrepps Music Festival, Hansel & Gretel at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Count Almaviva in Irish National Opera’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello La Bohème for Lyric Opera Ireland, Calchas La Belle Hélène Blackheath Opera and Pangloss & Voltaire in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide with the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra. While in residence at Scottish Opera, Ben created the role of James in the world première of The Devil Inside, for which he won Outstanding Performance in an Opera at the My Theatre Awards in Toronto.
Other notable roles include the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro with Scottish Opera, Marullo Rigoletto and Papageno The Magic Flute for Northern Ireland Opera, Falke Die Fledermaus and Goryanchikov From the House of the Dead for Welsh National Opera, Sharpless Madama Butterfly at Opera Holland Park, and Mr Webb in the European première of Ned Rorem's Our Town. An avid performer of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, Ben received critical acclaim as the Earl of Mountararat in English National Opera’s Iolanthe and Pish-Tush in The Mikado for Scottish Opera. He was to return to Glasgow in 2020 to play the Grand Inquisitor in a new production of The Gondoliers. Ben 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. |
Ben has sung on many of the UK’s leading concert platforms with groups such as the Ulster Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, RTE National Symphony Orchestra and RTE Concert Orchestra.
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