"True big voiced tenors are a very rare breed, but it appears that Australia has unearthed one here last night. Benjamin Sloman lifted the roof off the elegant Independent Theatre with a performance dripping with virile Italianate fire. This is a voice of staggering power and technical excellence, endowed with astonishingly clarion ring. His artistry was sophisticated and stylish and he managed to add nuance and pathos to a role which is generally crude and shallow. Without a doubt we will be hearing from this fine tenor for decades to come."
- Thomas Howard (Australian Opera Review) / Cavalleria Rusticana, Sydney Lyric Opera, May 2009.
"... the voices on display were outstanding and would not have been out of place at any major venue in the world. The standout performer was the tenor, Benjamin Michael Sloman. A powerful and ringing voice who handled the difficult Verdi and Puccini scenes like a throwback to the great tenors of decades past. This young tenor ... will be a force to be reckoned with."
- B. Goldowsky (The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press) / Classical Concert, Opera of the Hamptons, August 2008
"(Sloman) let loose and almost shook the plaster off the ceiling"
- Mickie T (www.queenscentral.com) / Puccini 150th Anniversary concert, Allegro Singers, August 2008
"A magnificent tenor"
"A natural. Superb in the role"
"The voice is piercing"
- C. Wellerlane (MNN1, Channel 34, New York) / Tosca, Opera of the Hamptons, June 2009
"absolutely splendid voice ... Benjamin Sloman has a tenor voice so heroic and resonant"
- Harry Rolnick (ConcertoNet.com) / L'Amore dei Tre Re, Bleecker St Opera, October 2009
"Benjamin Sloman, as Avito, brought ardent passion to the doomed lovers' romantic duet, "È ancora notte fonda," an oasis of relative peace for the illicit pair, in Act One, and to "Oh! Fiora! Fiora! Sono Avito!," their duet, troubled and agitated, in Act Two, as their chance of being discovered loomed closer at hand. In the funeral scene, in Act Three, following "Morte in gelido stupore," in which an ensemble of eight eloquently mourned Fiora in grand, liturgical-style strains, Sloman offered an impassioned lament for his dead love before he took the fatal kiss from her lips"
- Bruce-Michael Gelbert (Q OnStage, New York's Performances & Arts Reviews)
- L'Amore dei Tre Re, Bleecker St Opera, October 2009
"Benjamin Sloman sang Avito with an impassioned robust tenor... I highly recommend catching performances of this rarely performed piece"
- Opera-L / L'Amore dei Tre Re, Bleecker St Opera, October 2009