Ben Rasheed
Tenor

In January 2002, Benjamin made his solo London debut singing with the English Chamber Orchestra at St John’s Smith Square under the baton of Robin Stapleton, and in September of the same year featured in a gala performance with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra led by maestro, Roderick Brydon.

Benjamin studied a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide and was a Young Artist with the State Opera of South Australia in 2000.

His professional experience includes opera, operetta, music theatre and oratorio.

Credits with the State Opera of South Australia include Paris in Romeo and Juliette, the covers of Quint in Turn of the Screw and Third Squire in Parsifal, Tosca, Magnifico, The Mikado and Der Ring des Nibelugen. He was fortunate to be involved in work-shopping two original pieces On The Beach by Graham Koehne and The Beach by Elene Kats-Chernin. Benjamin has toured extensively throughout Australia with Co*Opera, Australia’s largest touring opera company. For Co*Opera his roles include Tamino/Monostatos The Magic Flute, Fernando Cosi fan Tutte, Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Gastone La Traviata. For the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra he featured as a soloist in their year 2000 Proms Concert and for the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust played the role of Cinderella’s Prince in Into The Woods and ‘Harry The Horse’ opposite Rhonda Burchmore, Rachael Beck and Peter Cousens in Guys and Dolls.

Last year Benjamin made his Perth debut playing the role of Oronte in Handel’s opera Alcina at His Majesty’s Theatre. In both Perth and Adelaide, Benjamin is a regular concert soloist having performed in numerous oratorios including Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Haydn’s The Seasons. Benjamin has worked with all major Adelaide music theatre companies and is well known for his comic portrayals of Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Mr Lindquist in A Little Night Music, Ozzie Babson in Irene, Bunthorne in Patience, Ko-Ko in The Mikado and Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance.

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