BENJAMIN COVEY
Baritone

Opera
Year Role (Opera) Composer Company
2011 Baron Douphol (La Traviata)* Verdi Vancouver Opera
2010 Schaunard (La Boheme)* Puccini Edmonton Opera
  Belcore (L'elisir d'amore)* Donizetti Merola Opera Program, San Francisco
  Morales/Dancairo (Carmen) Bizet Manitoba Opera
2009 Marullo (Rigoletto) Verdi Edmonton Opera
  George (Baby Kintyre) Burry CBC Radio
2008 Wagner (Faust) Gounod Calgary Opera
  Demetrius (Midsummer Night’s Dream) Britten Banff Summer Arts Festival

The Clock (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges) Ravel
Emerging Artists /
Calgary Opera
2007 Des Grieux (Les Portraits de Manon) Massenet Emerging Artists /
Calgary Opera
  Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia) Britten University of Toronto Opera
  Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus) Strauss University of Toronto Opera
  Germont (La Traviata) Verdi University of Toronto Opera
  Frobisher (Frobisher) Estacio Banff Summer Arts Festival
      * Upcoming Engagements


Oratorio

Repertoire Composer Company
St. Matthew Passion Bach Peterborough Singers
Cantata 67 Bach Grand River Baroque Festival
Cantatas 70 and 110 Bach International Bach Festival
Te Deum Bruckner University of Toronto Orchestra
Requiem Durufle Choir of St. John the Evangelist, Elora
Requiem Faure Choir of St. John the Evangelist
Messiah Handel Victoria Symphony Orchestra
    Hamilton Symphony Orchestra
    Regina Symphony Orchestra
    Bach-Elgar Choir
    St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Toronto
Lord Nelson Mass Haydn Guelph Symphony Orchestra
Requiem Mozart Bach-Elgar Choir
Carmina Burana Orff Banff Summer Arts Festival, Chorus Niagara
Fantasia on a Christmas Carol V. Williams Festival Chorus, Calgary
Songs of Travel V. Williams Aldeburgh Connection


Concert

Repertoire Composer Company
"The Bayfield Cocktail Book" Various Aldeburgh Connection
Recital Various BRAVO!’s “The Classical Now”


Education

2007-2009 Emerging Artists Program, Calgary Opera Calgary, AB
Masters of Opera, University of Toronto Toronto, ON
Opera Diploma, Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON
Honours Bachelor of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON
Opera As Theatre Program, Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, AB