Benjamin Spierman

Benjamin Spierman is General Director at Bronx Opera, where he directed NYC premières of Kirke Mechem’s The Rivals, Vaughan Williams’ The Poisoned Kiss, Rossini’s L’equivoco stravagante, and the Weber/Mahler Die drei Pintos, in addition to leading the company’s community teaching programs. His direction of Lucia di Lammermoor for Opera San José was hailed by Opera Today as “riveting stuff, faultless in its dramatic structure.”  Other work in and around New York City has included Verdi’s Falstaff, Massenet’s Cendrillon, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (all for Rutgers University, the first two winning National Opera Association prizes), and a Blackbox production of Ariadne auf Naxos for New York City’s dell’Arte Opera Ensemble (winner of the American Prize for Opera), and Sondheim’s Passion for Utopia Opera. Regionally, he led acclaimed productions of The Merry Widow (Indianapolis Opera), Don Giovanni (Dayton Opera), and La bohème (Syracuse Opera). Pre-pandemic, he directed and appeared in a “Trumpdated” Mikado (Oswego Opera), and directed Der Freischütz (Bronx Opera) and Le nozze di Figaro (Rutgers). During the pandemic he directed Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Opera in Williamsburg, VA) and Mozart’s The Impresario for Bronx Opera. He is a graduate of Lehman College, and is a native and resident of The Bronx, where he lives with his wife, soprano Hannah Spierman.