Tenor Benjamin Truncale, from Long Island, New York, is a first-year student in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, pursuing his master of music degree. He holds a bachelor of music degree from The Juilliard School. He is thrilled to be performing Fauré’s Shylock Suite with TŌN and Leon Botstein at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—part of their 2024–25 Sight and Sound series.
So far this season at the Fisher Center, Mr. Truncale was seen as a featured soloist in A Broadway Celebration with TŌN, conducted by James Bagwell, and in Come Out of the Cold: A Winter Cabaret with Anthony Roth Costanzo and his fellow VAP colleagues. In December, he was the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, NY. Some favorite Juilliard Opera credits include Il Dottore Sinisgalli in Nino Rota’s I due timidi and Momo (cover) in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo. He also sang the roles of Nemorino and Alfredo in selected scenes from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Verdi’s La Traviata in a Juilliard scenes program in May 2024.
Mr. Truncale is also an avid and passionate recitalist. He performed an all-Respighi program in Juilliard’s Liederabend CCXXI in April 2024, and in July 2024 he curated and performed his own recital featuring art song, folk song, and musical theatre repertoire in Italian, French, Welsh, and English, accompanied by fellow Juilliard alum harpist Amanda Beranek. Also in July, he participated in a concert series in the Berkshires with Classic Lyric Arts, where he sang the roles of Ferrando, Tito, and Belmonte in selected scenes and arias from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, La Clemenza di Tito, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, respectively. He reprised his role as Ferrando this December in selected scenes for Classic Lyric Arts’ annual gala at the Kosciusko Foundation in Manhattan.
Mr. Truncale spent July 2022 and July 2023 working with tenor Francisco Araiza at the European Music Institute in Vienna, Austria, which both times included a concert held at the historic Schloss Laudon. He currently studies with Lorraine Nubar.
Benjamin Truncale will perform with TŌN on May 18, 2025.
Bio: Jan 2025