Born into a family of musicians, Benjamin Bevan originally worked in the wine trade before studying voice at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Bevan’s operatic highlights include Sprecher/ Die Zauberflote and Henry Cuffe/Gloriana (Royal Opera House); Marcello/ La bohème, Lescaut/Manon, Riccardo/I Puritani (Scottish Opera); Lescaut/Boulevard Solitude (Royal Danish Opera); Ferryman/Curlew River (Opéra de Dijon); Roderick Usher/ Usher House, Lescaut/Boulevard Solitude, Dancaire/ Carmen, White Rabbit/Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Welsh National Opera); Starveling/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stankar/Verdi’s Stiffelio (Theater Aachen); Sprecher/The Magic Flute, Der Haushofmeister/ Capriccio (Garsington Opera); Baron Douphol/ La traviata (English National Opera); Merriman and Lane in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest under the baton of Thomas Adès (Barbican, London). He has also worked with Aix-en-Provence Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Nederlandse Reisopera, and Opera de Lausanne.
Notable concert engagements include Handel’s Messiah (Bach Collegium Japan; Minnesota Orchestra; Colorado Symphony Orchestra; The English Concert; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Irish Baroque Orchestra); St Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony (Bach Collegium Japan); King Arthur (Paris; London; Manchester; Birmingham); Weihnachts Oratorium (Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Monaco; Nice); St Matthew Passion (Bach Collegium Japan; Royal Northern Sinfonia; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; Bach Choir of the Netherlands); Mozart Requiem (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); St John Passion (Irish Chamber Orchestra; Barcelona and Madrid); B Minor Mass (The Three Choir’s Festival); The Dream of Gerontius (Snape Maltings); Carmina Burana (BBC Concert Orchestra); Bach Cantatas (Perth International Festival, Australia); and Vaughan Williams Hodie (MDR Leipzig Gewandhaus).