Benjamin Bruns

The tenor Benjamin Bruns began his career as a member of the boys’ choir of his native Hanover. He studied with Renate Behle at the Hamburg Academy of Music and became a member of the Theater Bremen ensemble before joining Cologne Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, and, in 2010, the ­Vienna Staatsoper, where he remained a company member until 2020. Having starting out as a Mozart tenor, he is now at home in the youthful heroic tenor repertoire, performing such Wagner roles as Lohengrin, Erik, Loge, and Siegmund, as well as Max in Weber’s Der Freischütz and Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio. In the 2024-25 season, Bruns appears at the Bavarian Staatsoper as Piet vom Fass in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre and makes his role debuts as Wagner’s Parsifal in Hamburg and as the Drum Major in Berg’s Wozzeck in Tokyo. He will also ­perform in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde under Daniel Barenboim with the Berliner Philharmoniker in May 2025.

March 2025