The music of American composer Ben Moore has been heard at venues across the world including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. His work has been called “brilliant” and “gorgeously lyrical” by the New York Times while Opera News has praised the “easy tunefulness” and “romantic sweep” of his songs. Singers who have performed his work include Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Nathan Gunn and Audra McDonald. Moore’s work includes opera, musical theater, cabaret, choral music, chamber music and comedy material.
Moore composed the scores for three operas including Enemies, a Love Story (libretto by Nahma Sandrow) which premiered at Palm Beach Opera in 2015 and has been called “an important new work that will find its place among those works that audiences will be moved by…” (Fred Plotkin/WQXR). Odyssey and Robin Hood (librettos by Kelley Rourke) are youth operas commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival. They have been seen at venues across the country including Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 2006 the Metropolitan Opera featured two of Ben’s comedy songs in a gala broadcast nationally.
Recent events include the premiere of the song cycle “And Another Song Comes On” (words by Mark Campbell) for the London Song Festival and the premiere of a newly revised version of the choral work, The Wave Rises, for Cantori New York.
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