Benjamin Bernheim
“The most beautiful tenor voice since Luciano Pavarotti,” wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung about Benjamin Bernheim. It is hardly surprising, then, that he ranks among the most in-demand singers of his fach. He appears regularly at major opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera, the Staatsoper Berlin, La Scala in Milan, and the Royal Opera House in London, performs the great roles of the Romantic repertoire, and is regarded as a specialist in the French fach.
Following his acclaimed appearance at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, he released his album Douce France: Mélodies & Chansons, in which he combines mélodies by Berlioz, Chausson, and Duparc with classic 20th-century chansons by Brel, Kosma, and Trenet. In 2024 he also sang at the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris. In 2025 he was honoured with the Opus Klassik Award as “Singer of the Year.” Most recently, he appeared at the Advent concert of the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as at the 2025 New Year’s Eve concert of the Berlin Philharmonic.
In the current 2025/26 season, he will also be heard as Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Staatsoper Berlin), as well as in recitals and concerts in cities including New York, Paris, Zurich, and Hamburg.
He is an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon, and his recordings have received international acclaim. He studied in Lausanne, Switzerland, with Gary Magby and was a member of the International Opera Studio as well as the ensemble of the Zurich Opera.