Benjamin Bunsold as Dick Warrington in Naughty Marietta

Introducing Benjamin Bunsold as Dick Warrington in Naughty Marietta.

Benjamin Bunsold has sung a wide variety of operatic and concert engagements. Performances include Roméo (Roméo et Juliette) for Center Stage Opera in California in which his portrayal was described as “one of the highlights of the performance” (Lydeen, Tolucan Times), Emperor Altoum (Turandot) with the Fairbanks Symphony in Alaska, Rinnucio (Gianni Schicchi) for Winter Opera St. Louis, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) for Ohio State Opera Theater, and Ralph Rackstraw (HMS Pinafore) for Cleveland Opera Theater. Bunsold has performed several other notable performances with a large number of opera companies.

He has been a Young Artist performing with several notable opera companies and symphonies.

His most recent concerts include Mozart’s Vespers at Ohio Wesleyan University, Handel’s Messiah at Virginia Tech University, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Lima Symphony Orchestra.

He holds a BM from Ohio Wesleyan University, an MM from the University of Illinois, and has completed additional graduate work at Ohio State University.

(You can find his entire bio on our website.)

June 13 & 15

Naughty Marietta: Naughty Marietta, the beloved operetta by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, sends us on adventure to 18th-century New Orleans with Marietta, a runaway French princess, as she seeks love and freedom with Captain Richard Warrington. This operetta is filled with mystery, humor, and romance.

Eric Gibson, Director

William Boggs, Conductor

The Lincoln Theatre

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