Luxon, Benjamin (1937– )

English baritone. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and in 1971 created Britten's Owen Wingrave on TV. From 1972 he appeared at Glyndebourne as Ulisse, Almaviva, Janáček's Forester, and Don Giovanni, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, as the Jester and Death in the first performance of Taverner (1972), Eugene Onegin, and Diomed in the revised version of Troilus and Cressida. Other roles include Posa, Papageno, Eisenstein, Wolfram, and Falstaff, which he sang at Los Angeles in 1990, and for the English National Opera in 1992. He was often heard in lieder.