BENJAMIN COVEY
Baritone

Opera
Year Role (Opera) Composer Company
2013 Hermann (Tales of Hoffmann) Offenbach Edmonton Opera
  Adonis (Venus and Adonis) Blow Toronto Masque Theatre
  Marquis (La Traviata) Verdi Opera Lyra, Ottawa
2012 Marullo (Rigoletto) Verdi Opera Hamilton
  Achilla (Giulio Cesare) Handel Thirteen Strings, Ottawa
  Captain Gardiner (Moby Dick) Jake Heggie Calgary Opera
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


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 Bach-Elgar Choir
    Hamilton Symphony Orchestra
    Kingston Symphony Orchestra
    Regina Symphony Orchestra
    Victoria Symphony Orchestra
Creation Haydn Northumberland Symphony
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

Year Role (Opera) Composer Company
2013 Recital Various University of Guelph
2012 "The Mozart Experience" Mozart National Arts Centre Symphony Orchestra
2011 "C'est mon Plaisir" Various Aldeburgh Connection
2009 "The Bayfield Cocktail Book" Various Aldeburgh Connection
2007 Songs of Travel V. Williams Aldeburgh Connection


Education

2010 Merola Opera Program San Francisco, CA
2007-2009 Emerging Artists Program, Calgary Opera Calgary, AB
2007 Masters of Opera, University of Toronto Toronto, ON
2005 Opera Diploma, Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON
2004 Honours Bachelor of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON