Boston Globe: "For ‘Candide,’ the Boston Pops passes the baton to Harvard student"
"...the rich-voiced boy soprano Benjamin P. Wenzelberg" - By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM, New York Times (with Dawn Upshaw and Gil Kalish)
Eveyday Opera Interview with audio
"Benjamin P. Wenzelberg almost steals the show as the troubled boy Miles." - Anthony Tommasini, NY Times
Selected for New York Magazine's approval matrix in the "brilliant/high brow" section
"boy soprano Benjamin P. Wenzelberg sang the important role of bad-boy Miles
in a true and penetrating treble." - NY Post
"Benjamin P. Wenzelberg sang the boy Miles with the assurance of a seasoned adult"- WQXR
"The stand-out of this first-rate cast is the precocious Wenzelberg. At only 13, his perceptiveness exceeds many adults. His deep and multi-faceted portrayal nimbly
vacillates between childish innocence and frailty caused by emotional and sexual
trauma, to one possessed by evil. His voice is sweet and pure, and time just seems
to stop when he sings the heart-wrenching and melancholy, "Malo." - Berkshire on Stage
"Wenzelberg navigated Miles’s tricky music with ease and still had ample mental
space left over to fully commit to a character. Britten entrusts the singer who plays
Miles with a psychologically complex character, one typically far beyond the years
of your typical pre-teen. The ovation that audience gave Wenzelberg was not the
obligatory one given to a precious child actor, but one given in appreciation of a consummate artist." - Opera Pulse
"...with Wenzelberg - you spent half the day pondering where they found someone so young who was so immensely talented. By singling these two out, I don't want to say that the rest of the cast wasn't wonderful. They were. But, these two created joy in the afternoon." -Writing on the Fourth Wall
"Benjamin Wenzelberg made a disconcertingly confident Miles, acted with a naturalism that eludes most child performers and sung with unerring accuracy." - Bachtrack
"Thirteen-year-old Benjamin P. Wenzelberg as Miles has a charismatic stage presence and a treble voice that is a marvel. Both his singing and acting imparted depth of feeling." -Classical Source
"Elijah and The Boy (pristinely sung by Benjamin P. Wenzelberg of the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus)" - Music Web Intnl
"the most angelic boy singer Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg and full moon nights of crafted poetry." -Times Square Chronicles
"An amazing solo by boy soprano Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg, who is a Composer/Pianist at Juilliard and scholarship recipient at the 92nd St Y." - WMNR Fine Arts Radio