Ben Robinson is the Artistic Director of Opera Ithaca (New York) and Raylynmor Opera (New Hampshire), and the Managing Director of Lyric Fest (Philadelphia’s art song concert series). As a stage and film director, he has mounted numerous productions, highlighted by new productions for which he also wrote new English libretti:  Madame Butterfly, Macbeth, Hansel and Gretel, The Barber of Seville, Die Fledermaus, Bastien and Bastienne, and Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon. Recent directing credits include Suor Angelica, La tragédie de Carmen, and Iolanthe, co-creating Lyric Fest’s video series, #ConqueringSocialDistanceOneSongataTime, and film productions of Pagliacci for Raylynmor Opera and Gianni Schicchi for Opera Ithaca, the latter of which Opera Magazine heralded as the "deftest use... of Covid-era technology as part of modern operatic reality." This season, projects include film productions of Hansel and Gretel and The Impresario, stage productions of The Medium (Amarillo Opera), L’enfant et let sortilèges (Ithaca College), Così fan tutte (Cedar Rapids Opera), We Wear the Sea Like a Coat (World Premiere), Le nozze di Figaro, La Cenerentola, and Falstaff, and the first ever music video by the Opera Cowgirls. 

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Recent performing credits include Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore with Eugene Opera, Chip in On the Town with Resonance Works Pittsburgh, and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra. Other credits include the Game Keeper in Rusalka with Resonance Works Pittsburgh, the title role in Candide and Alfred in Die Fledermaus with Opera in the Heights, Joe in La fanciualla del West with Michigan Opera Theatre, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Indianapolis Opera, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance with Amarillo Opera, the Electrician in Powder Her Face with Skylight Music Theatre, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Anchorage Opera, Flamand in Capriccio with Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, and Basilio/Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro with Salt Marsh Opera. He recently appeared with the Southwestern Suburban Symphony in an all-Bernstein program, including Tony in the West Side Story Suite, Jim in Gift of the Magi with Queens Opera Theatre, and made his Carnegie Hall debut singing the role of Draco from the Final Fantasy video game opera, Maria and Draco.

 

Other career credits include Hydrogen Jukebox, Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Orpheus in Orpheus in the Underworld, Abdallo in Nabucco, Don Anchise in La finta giardiniera,  Henrik in A Little Night Music, Antinoo in Antígona Furiosa, Spoletta in Tosca, Malcom in Macbeth, Charles in The Hotel Casablanca, Laurie in Little Women,  Gernando in L'isola disabitata, Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, and the title role of The Wandering Scholar.