Benjamin Luxon

Benjamin Matthew Luxon (born 24 March 1937, Redruth, Cornwall) is a retired British baritone.
He studied with Walther Gruner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (while working part-time as a PE teacher in the East End) and established an international reputation as a singer at the age of 21 when he won the third prize at the 1961 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Soon afterward he joined composer Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group. On their... more