Ben Thapa

Ben Thapa is a tenor whose training took him from the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal College of Music to the Wales International Academy of Voice, where he completed his studies under Dennis O'Neill in 2013. On the operatic stage he has sung the President in Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht for Birmingham Opera at the BBC Proms, Mat of the Mint in The Beggar's Opera for the Royal Opera, and Siegfried in The Quest for the Ring with Opera North at the Royal Festival Hall. A two-time Britten–Pears scholar, he has worked in masterclass with Kiri Te Kanawa, Della Jones, Amanda Roocroft, Jonathan Dove and Graham Clark, and continues to study privately with David Pollard.