“Versatile and vocally powerful” baritone Ben Wallace currently studies at the University of Toronto and will be joining the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio in August. He was the second prize winner of the 2025 Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition, recipient of the Laurier Alumni Gold Medal, and a winner of the Laurier Concerto Competition. Recent performance highlights include Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (UofT Opera), Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Highlands Opera Studio), Pandolfe in Cendrillon (UofT Opera), the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé (GPC), John Brooke in Little Women (Opera Laurier), and Barone Douphol/Dottore Grenvil in La traviata (KWS). In May, he will be appearing as Top in Toronto City Opera’s production of The Tender Land. Ben formed his own chamber choir and orchestra in 2022 and has since conducted the world premières of three choral works by Canadian composer Justin Lapierre.
