Benjamin Russell
3rd Prize German Category
He studied voice at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin and completed his Masters in Music Performance in 2012. He has been in the Young Associate Artists Program at the Opera Theater Company Dublin and in 2012/2013 at the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera. In 2011 he sang at the Aldeburgh Festival Junius in „The Rape of Lucretia“ with a recording that received a 2014 Grammy nomination. He was a laureate and others. at the s‘-Hertogenbosch competition and the Veronica Dunne competition. Since 2014 he is a member of the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
„MEIN SEHNEN, MEIN WÄHNEN!“, ARIE DES FRITZ aus „Die tote Stadt“ by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)