Benjamin Worley is a St. Louis based multi-faceted musician. Benjamin holds a graduate degree in vocal performance and is completing his thesis for a second graduate degree in musicology from the University of Missouri, where he also holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in anthropology and vocal performance. He has performed locally with Union Avenue Opera and with internationally accredited Sarasota Opera as an apprentice artist for their Diamond 60^th Anniversary season in 2019. While in Sarasota, Benjamin performed scenes from Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Verdi’s La forza del destino, Beethoven’s Fidelio, and covered the role of Gran Sacerdote di Belo in their mainstage production of Nabucco by Verdi.  In June 2017, he performed the role of Dr. Grenvil in the Missouri Symphony Society’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata while simultaneously music directing for Maplewood Barn Community Theater’s production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. He has sung roles with Show-Me Opera at Mizzou, including the title role in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Simone in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Reverend Hale in Ward’s The Crucible. Not only an accomplished singer, Benjamin was published in the September/October 2018 issue of Journal of Singing, the periodical published in affiliation with NATS, for his paper “Harry Lawrence Freeman: Pioneering the African-American Grand Opera.”