Ben Reisinger

Ben Reisinger is a tenor from Rochester, New York, currently in his second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the 2025–26 Met season, he made his company debut as the First Guard in the holiday presentation of The Magic Flute and will sing a Sailor’s Voice in Tristan und Isolde and Gastone in La Traviata. Additionally, this season he covered the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at San Francisco Opera, made his role debut as Alfredo in La Traviata at Opera Colorado, and will make his role and company debut as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. Last season at the Met, he covered roles in Fidelio, and the company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded. Previously performing as a baritone and as a resident artist at Detroit Opera, he sang the Teacher in Ainadamar and Wagner in Faust and covered Terry in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Elviro in Xerxes, and Valentin in Faust. In addition to his operatic and concert experience, he has achieved success in some of the top national and international vocal competitions. Recent awards include awarded engagements at the Sächsische Staatsoper–Semperoper at the Belvedere Singing Competition, second prize in the 2025 James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, second prize in the 2025 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition, the Athena Music Foundation Prize from the 2024 Premiere Opera Foundation Competition, and the Stephen Phebus Award from the 2024 Opera Index Vocal Competition. In 2020 and 2021, he was the winner of the Michigan District and recipient of the Great Lakes Region Encouragement Award in the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. He is an alumnus of the Martina Arroyo Foundation’s Prelude to Performance program and Detroit Opera’s Resident Artist Program. He holds degrees in voice from Nazareth University and Michigan State University.