Benjamin Bernheim performed at the closing night of the Olympics on August 11, 2024.

The French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who is one of the world’s rising stars performed a new version of Gabriel Fauré’s “Hymne à Apollon.” The tenor performed alongside Swiss pianist and composer Alain Roche on a suspended piano.

According to Classic FM, Fauré’s composition was based on hymn texts that had been discovered in Athens in the late 19th century and the song was presented at the founding congress’ first Olympic Congress in Paris in 1894 when congress were on the hunt for an anthem for their modern Olympic games.

Bernheim is the latest classical music singer to perform at the Olympics. Marina Viotti also performed at this year’s Olympics at the opening ceremony.

Bernheim next performs at the Salzburg Festival where he will open a new production of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” followed by another production of the Offenbach work at the Metropolitan Opera.

Alain Roche plays suspended in the airs, with lyric singer Benjamin Bernheim.

They interpret the Delphic Hymn to Apollo, the oldest notated music of the Western canon, written by Athenaeus, son of Athenios. pic.twitter.com/SmVquZ39bL

— Leo Caesaris (@leo_caesaris) August 11, 2024