Thomas Bernard "Ben" Heppner, born January 14, 1956, in Murrayville, British
Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian operatic tenor and broadcaster. Heppner studied
at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. Heppner won
the CBC Talent Festival in 1979 performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “Il mio
tesoro” from Don Giovanni, and won the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions in 1988, specializing in the works of Richard Wagner, Ludwig van
Beethoven, and Richard Strauss. His recordings include Wagner's Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Sir Georg Solti in 19...