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 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.
This season at the Fisher Center at Bard, 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 March, he performed a set of Benjamin Britten folksong arrangements in Bard’s annual Kurtág Festival, and in February he sang the role of Lyonel from Flotow’s Martha in a program of selected German opera scenes. In December, he was the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, NY.
Mr. Truncale was selected to be a 2025 Vocal Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center, led by renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, where this summer he will sing the role of Le Petit Vieillard in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, as well as perform in other concerts and recitals.
Mr. Truncale holds a bachelor of music degree from The Juilliard School, where he sang Il Dottore Sinisgalli in Nino Rota’s I due timidi and Momo (cover) in Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo. He also sang the role of Nemorino in selected scenes from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore 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, MA 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.
Mr. Truncale reprised his role as Ferrando this December in selected scenes for Classic Lyric Arts’ annual gala at the Kosciuszko Foundation in Manhattan. He 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 performed with TŌN on May 18, 2025.
Bio: Apr 2025