Benjamin Chamandy campe un ferme Contremaître, d’une couleur joliment cuivrée. Anaclase, 21 March 2024
Since the 2023/24 season, Benjamin Chamandy has been a member of Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. Here, he made his debuts as Landknecht in Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus, Figaro in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Celio in Prokofiev’s The Love of the Three Oranges, Lysander in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. The 2024/25 season will see his debuts as Er in the Austrian premiere of Haas’ Liebesgesang and Der Mann in Schönberg’s Von heute auf morgen.
At Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Canadian bass-baritone created the part of Sohn Jonas in Bernhard Lang’s world premiere Hiob in 2023. He performed the title role of Gottfried von Einem’s Tulifant at the Konzertsaal der Wiener Sängerknaben and at Esterhazy Castle in 2018 and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in Henze’s Bassariden. In 2019, he first performed in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn and in Gounod’s Faust at Wiener Kammeroper.
As a member of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s International Opera Studio from 2021 until 2023, his repertoire included Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, Puccini’s Tosca, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Strauss‘ Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier as well as Liebrecht’s La Piccula Cubana and Eötvös‘ Sleepless. In 2024, he returned to Staatsoper Unter den Linden for performances of Verdi’s La traviata.
Benjamin Chamandy has performed under the baton of conductors including Thomas Guggeis, Antonello Manacorda, Kent Nagano, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Simon Rattle, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Simone Young and Massimo Zanetti.
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Donizetti: L‘ elisir d‘ amor
Belcore: Come Paride vezzoso …
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Figaro: Aprite un po’ quegli occhi …
Live recording 2024