Baritone

Ben McAteer

Fledermaus

Biography

For Irish National Opera, Northern Irish baritone Ben McAteer has performed Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Officer Two and Blazes in Maxwell-Davies’s The Lighthouse, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Father in Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel, and Schaunard in the 2021 concert performance of Puccini’s La bBohème.  Ben’s current and recent highlights include Sir Walter Raleigh in Stanford’s The Critic at Wexford Festival Opera, Falke in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus at The Grange Festival, and Pangloss in Bernstein’s Candide with Marin Alsop in a new production by Lydia Steier at Theater an der Wien, and with the Hamburger Symphoniker and Martin Yates.

A natural performer of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, he recently appeared as Mountararat in Iolanthe at English National Opera, and as The Grand Inquisitor in The Gondoliers and King Paramount in Utopia Limited, both at Scottish Opera. Recent concert work includes Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Ulster Orchestra, Brahms’s German Requiem with the National Symphony Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and soon joins Marin Alsop and the Polish National Radio Orchestra for Szymanowski’s Stabat mater. 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.  In 2023 he featured on a new disc of orchestral music by Peter Warlock, Maltworms & Milkmaids. 

February 2025