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American Bass Benjamin LeClair is a recent alum of San Francisco’s prestigious Merola Opera Program. While in residence there last summer he performed Superintendant Budd in Albert Herring and appeared on the San Francisco Opera house stage in a concert of arias and scenes. Upcoming performances include Banco in Macbeth, Pistola in Falstaff, and the Four Villains in Les Contes des Hoffmann, all with Opera in the Heights in Houston.Recently he appeared in Salome (Florentine Opera), St. Matthew Passion (Music of the Baroque), and the title roles in both Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera in the Heights), and Boris Godunov (Northwestern University's Russian Opera Ensemble).Mr. LeClair’s repertoire also includes the title role in Don Giovanni, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mephistofeles in Faust, Seneca in the L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Colline in La Bohème, Ferrando in Il Trovatore, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Verdi’s Requiem, and Jesus in both Passions of Bach, among other roles and concert works.
Contact:
Herbert Eckhoff Artist Management
Opera - Concert - Oratorio
8404 Hurstbourne Court
Knoxville, TN 37919
USA
865/694-8043 voice
865/805-0107 cell
865/694-2642 FAX
OperaConcertHerb@aol.com
or
Contact me directly:
leclair_ben@yahoo.com
Upcoming Performances
Chicago PBS Channel 11 High-Def broadcast of
"A Renaissance Christmas"
Music of the Baroque
December 11 at 10:00pm ET.
Soloist in "Holiday Brass and Choral" concerts with
Music of the Baroque
December 19, 20, 21. Various venues.
Banco in Macbeth
Opera in the Heights in Houston
January 29, 30, 31, February 5, 6, 7, 2009
Pistola in Falstaff
Opera in the Heights in Houston
March 26, 27, 28, April 2, 3, 4, 2009
Don Alfonso in Così Fan Tutte
Merola Opera Program in San Francisco
August 7 & 9, 2009
Lindorf, Coppélius, Dappertutto, and Dr. Miracle (The Four Villains) in Les Contes Des Hoffmann
Opera in the Heights in Houston
September and October, 2010
Recent Highlights
Soloist: "Divine Beauty: A Celebration of Italy's Fabulous Music of the 17th Century".
The Callipygian Players
Superintendant Budd in Albert Herring
Merola Opera Program in San Francisco
Pontifex II in St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach
Music of the Baroque
2nd Soldier in Salome
Florentine Opera in Milwaukee
Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro
Opera in the Heights in Houston
Boris in a selected scenes concert performance of
Boris Godunov (Shostakovich version)
conducted by Natalia Lyashenko
Northwestern University's Slavic Department