Benjamin Werth
Baritone
New England Finalist, 2008

Benjamin Werth is a young baritone from Mentor, OH. His recent credits include Malatesta in Don Pasquale with Opera Iowa, William Jennings Bryan in the youth production of The Ballad of Baby Doe, at Central City Opera. Werth portrayed Prince Yamadori in Ash Lawn Opera’s Madame Butterfly. He sang the Jailor in The Dialogue of the Carmelites and Masetto in DonGiovanni at Manhattan School of Music where he earned his masters degree in 2006. He has also been seen in Ohio State University musical theater productions as Fredrick in A little night music, and Maximillian in Candide. He is in his first year as a member of the Opera Institute.

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