During the 2025-26 season, Ben Bliss performs as the tenor soloist in Messiah. Previously at HGO, Bliss performed the role of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (2019). Elsewhere during this season, Bliss performs as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera and he makes his role debut as the Duke in Rigoletto with the Canadian Opera Company. During the 2024-25 season, Bliss performed two roles at the Metropolitan Opera, a debut as Eric in Jeanine Tesori's new opera Grounded and Tamino in The Magic Flute. He also returned to Opéra national de Paris as Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress and performed the role of Jupiter in Semele for his house debuts at both the Royal Ballet and Opera – Covent Garden and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. Highlights of the 2023-24 season include house debuts at the Opéra national de Paris as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni; Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Vienna State Opera; a role debut as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Tamino in The Magic Flute and Pélléas in Pélléas et Mélisande with the Bavarian State Opera; and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Canadian Opera Company. Other operatic highlights include Tamino in The Magic Flute at LA Opera and Opera Philadelphia, Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Seattle Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Frankfurt Opera; Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress for the Boston Lyric Opera; and Flamand in Capriccio and Robert Wilson in Peter Sellars’s new production of Doctor Atomic with Santa Fe Opera.
Don Ottavio: DON GIOVANNI 2018-19