Roméo et Juliette: “Ah! lève-toi soleil!”

[@CC-qy7vj]

Had the pleasure of seeing this in person today. His voice gave me chills and made me weep. The youtube audio doesn't do him justice. It flattens out a voice that feels three dimensional, like a generous skein of gold being tossed gently from the stage into your lap. Each note was so pure and clean, but rich and full; metaphor-wise, it was like a goddamn trumpet heralding a strong sunrise in a quiet hillside.

[@virginiakramer9055]

I am totally obsessed with Benjamin Bernheim!

[@someone1994sth]

magnificent! i saw him in Paris and the whole opera was just an absolute marvel benjamin bernheim nails this part and brings tears to your eyes

[@barrymorentz5190]

I was moved to tears last night by his gorgeous singing! The purity of his sound, his musical sensitivity, the modulation of his voice…I could go on and on. And Nadine Sierra was also nothing less than fabulous. One of my most glorious experiences at the Met in 57 years of attending.

[@wotan10950]

I’ve seen him in the theater. I can assure you that his voice blossoms in the theater, which you can’t hear in a YT video. Bernheim has one of the most thrilling voices I’ve ever heard - and I’ve seen them all since the 1970s, including Kraus and Gedda.

[@agnessaal6931]

Simply gorgeous... Perfect happiness !!

[@jon-michaelball3589]

Wonderful! So easy, so refreshing!!! Bravo

[@sunshim6831]

It was an extremely impressive performance in Romeo et Juliette. I became a fan. Ben Bernheim made me love and appreciate this opera.

[@rosy3385]

ça c'est du spectacle avec costumes, décors fabuleux et distribution magnifique ! Bravo le MET !

[@Aneta_Skarzynski]

Delightful musicality, legato, timbre of tenor voice. I listen and forget about technique...

[@moorfan1]

Saw the premiere at the Met. This is indeed a very beautiful voice, and Mr. Bernheim appears to have very good control of his instrument. It is a nice, bright, light lyric voice, I would think perfect for the French repertoire. If he shepherds his gifts well, he will be the preeminent interpreter of his generation of the great French roles.

[@SopranoLili]

He already is… His Des Grieux, Hoffmann and Werther that I heard live (and his Romeo of course) are the best since young Alagna

[@meisterwue]

​​@@SopranoLilihe is ready for Rodolfo , perhaps DesGrieux( Puccini) , but Cavaradossi be careful, dangerous part and please not Calaf, it will kill him ....for french opera ideal, because the voice has a "jumping" top and he is native speaker, always important in french parts .....

[@SopranoLili]

@@meisterwue no Cavaradossi nor Calaf. But Don Carlos in a few years

[@meisterwue]

@@SopranoLili yes, and Alfredo, of course and Duca.....Cavaradossi is really dangerous ( Beczała has waited a long time before his first Cavaradossi....), but today it is in the opera business usual to overcharge voices with huge parts , too huge for a lot of voices .....in former times the singers had another education & support to avoid the dangerous roles ...

[@SopranoLili]

@@meisterwue he has Alfredo already (I heard him in Paris, it’s superb) and Duca he did in NYC 2 years ago

[@hannahwhite9014]

I absolutely *love* his voice!!! I think it’s absolutely beautiful and moving. I’m sure everyone hating cannot sing or perform like him, nor were they ever given a role at the MET. Just saying.

[@morganhunt1191]

Man, some of these comments are stupid and getting way more likes than they should. Bernheim is a true French tenor, more nasality than the old school Italian tenors it's true, but this voice is SQUILLANTE. I've never seen him live but everyone I've talked to says he just FILLS the theatre with sound. You can even hear the ring in this video. This is not an amateur voice, my god!

[@theartstraveler]

Preach!

[@wotan10950]

Some people like to pretend that they’re educated critics, but in reality they’re just obsessing over their old recordings. They’ve never seen their heroes on the stage! I think Bernheim is fantastic.

[@biancacastafiore8760]

I saw his Duca at the Met, beautiful and powerful voice, even elegant. the critical comments are by ignorant people - next thing they’ll say is that his French is terrible

[@darlenemoak63]

Just saw this as a simulcast production. Totally totally totally agree he is exquisite I can hardly wait to see him more of him at the Metvor anywhere else for that matter.

[@linanshi]

I saw him live last year. I didn’t know what was “Bernheim tenor” before it. After I heard the first word, I fell in love with this beautiful voice…

[@editewinchester]

Bravo. B. B - YOU HAVE GREAT - VOICE!

[@emanff18]

Bro sounds awesome! Don't know what y'all on about

[@reginarenzowajurgens7953]

The BEST Romeo in this Time❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!!!! He sing the right Technique "sul fiato" and in right Resonanse. French language is right in the singing maske. Beutiful, magnific singing, beautiful action on the stage.

[@goscinnydyrygent]

Wow fascinating comments! This is one of the few current singers who can really sing, and most people are recognizing that. I don't quite understand the dissents. His singing is easy, the high notes ring, the voice is even, he's relaxed, nothing is strained, nothing seems beyond his reach. OK, the sound is a little "laid-back," maybe in some ways almost too relaxed, a little sluggish in the vibrato -- but we're talking about a very high level here. Nobody in the Forza revival sang this well. (And yes, the people saying his voice "fills the theater" are correct.)

[@mariuquidiello]

Extraordinario 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mariuquidiello]

After Pavarotti I never found anyone that trilled me until I saw him today at the Met !! OMG ❤👏🏻🙏🏻

[@deborahshort111]

I feel the same way! I saw him on Saturday at the Met in Les Contes d"Hoffman. Thrilling!

[@paulnovello1393]

My God what a voice! ❤

[@vincebossi46]

Superlativo.BRAVO.anzi BR@VISSIMO!!!!!!!

[@frankveliz9891]

Saw this at the met in March with some colleagues. As a tenor in my undergraduate, his performance was such a life changing event for me. Definitely inspired me to keep working to get to this level one day.

[@christianeflamand9401]

Benjamin, Tu me fais pleurer d'émotion, tu es merveilleux en tous points Je t'adore Christiane ( Belgique)

[@pauldeanify]

BJorling out shines them all!!!!!!

[@daewoopark1420]

잘한당

[@КонстантинЕлисеев-э7н]

Роль отработана, "впета". Он на своем месте. Многовато горловой эмиссии - возможно, специально для создания эффекта "спинто", полетности звука - покрыть большой зал. Крайние верха немного недотягивает (фальшь): 0:32, 1:16. Слушать его в целом можно

[@jjlungdoc7472]

Bravo Bernheim.! Too short of a video but enough to get a good idea of his singing. The Met is going through a most welcome revival: Forza, Butterfly and now ( hopefully) R&J. The tenor is French and so was Gounod. The typical French sound is supposed to be “ covered” and sometimes it sounds even nasal. The open vowels sung in Italian is a different matter. This is probably one of the reasons why Pavarotti or Corelli did not sound great in French compared to ,for example, Kraus who did understand the difference. If students at IU sound like Bernheim that must be the best opera temple in the world.

[@biancacastafiore8760]

the Turandot this season sounds very good too. just avoid the performances with Goerke.

[@iloveopera1951]

Sadly always disconnected with what he is singing, no matter what he is singing. He is missing a real pair of b*lls, and is certainly not a convincing Romeo. Where is the stamina, where is the strength, where is the charm of Romeo?

[@CL1450]

He has a strong voice IMO. Idk if I would say he’s not connected with what he’s singing since I’m not him and not in his head. So many things have to happen in a singers brain while performing. He sounds great. Also, not all Romeo’s need to be huge and Uber masculine if they sing the role beautifully.

[@christinamendes3010]

He is super charming, unfortunately you can’t see

[@marcelbureau2753]

I am listening at this opera right now live on the radio. This singer has an underdeveloped voice (like so many singers these days) with no core and chest contribution. The voice is small and dull. He has a good and nice voice but the proper technique that would have given its full potential was never acquired. If he can be heard in the a big theatre like the Met is most likely because of a sound amplification of some sort like is now done in most theatres because singers cannot project their voice anymore. Operatic singing is not crooning like we hear here.

[@Thepierre659]

I stopped reading at "live on the radio."

[@williesullivan3985]

I will never be a fan of this type of bleating, nasal tenor voice. At least not in this repertoire. I think in Rossini and Mozart this type of sound is more expected and tolerated but Gounod demands a more regal, noble sound, IMO. Or even a full passionate Italianate sound. This guy sounds like a grad student at Indiana University.

[@giselanemecek7970]

Er ist Franzose und das ist eine französische Oper. Die Stimme ist goldrichtig!!!

[@valchris89]

What a ridiculous comment! The opera is FRENCH and he is FRENCH. Gounod definitely catered for and composed with FRENCH singers in mind so his singing is actually quite suited for this repertoire.

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

Absolutely right voice for this part, this rep

[@marieantoinette3857]

Such a way of singing, which he shows, is never expected in any Rossini, and even less from an absolute master of bel canto like Mozart! Noble sound, elegance, softness, warmth, heartiness and at the same time this gentle grandeur is a MUST!!!! to be heard by Mozart, because he demands it. Here we have singing into a microphone(s) without "the body part". And on top of all a Gounod opera, which is really not any measure of a good singer.

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

@@marieantoinette3857 He is ONSTAGE - in a Dress Rehearsal- at the Met So, I have NO Clue why you are talking about microphones. And - beyond that, I have NO Clue what you are trying to say Explain please?

[@AndriyaPradiptaKarim]

Benjamin, I want your voice when a sing are can be able to exact of the same as when you are a speak Like A TWANG + YOUNG + NASAL + YOUTH + CHILD + TEEN + SON + BOY + KID

[@AndriyaPradiptaKarim]

Then I want you can be able to spoke, speak, chat, and a sing with a very dominant and the fully of the introvert, taciturn, demure, chipper, tinkling, squeak, chirrup, snuffle, warble, clatter, twang, jangle, cheep, tweet, stolid, nasal, clang, tinkle, clank, jingle, chirp, peep, clink, ring, and a pip. Like A GARETH GATES, TOMMY PAGE, ASAF AVIDAN, PER GESSLE, BRAD KANE, Etc.

[@marieantoinette3857]

He can sign up with the Wiener knabenchor when the registrations are open. The voice is perfectly suited and ready to sing among young boys.

[@BrooklynTiger-fi5pz]

Are there any singers currently living that you don’t hate?

[@biancacastafiore8760]

@@BrooklynTiger-fi5pz she is a typical yt troll - they are cheaper by the dozen

[@GuillaumePoudrier]

miserable sod. be gone from us. and be quick with it!

[@operanostalgia3820]

he should stop using that throaty R which is so anti-vocal and bad for the singing voice he should listen to vanzo doing it

[@symbelmyne1223]

Dude, seriously?? He's a French tenor, singing in his mother tongue (French!), an opera composed and written by French guys, for the French public and he's doing it great and in the most authentic way possible! Pardon my French (again this throaty word!) but your comment is just so f.g ridiculous... 🫣👎

[@operanostalgia3820]

He is not French but Swiss, get your facts right. No great French tenor ever sang with this guttural r , creeping hated it , it is anti vocal , period@@symbelmyne1223

[@operanostalgia3820]

Creeping = Crespin spellcheck terrorism

[@symbelmyne1223]

@@operanostalgia3820 Fun fact: he's both, French and Swiss (and yes, from French-speaking part of Switzerland). You have the right to like/hate what he's doing, but saying how "he should sing" based on YOUR opinion and YOUR perception is still kind of "teaching a French guy singing in French", which is still (and always be) f.g ridiculous as a comment, period.