Peter Marsh
Tenor
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Peter Marsh has sung an astonishing number of very different roles since joining the ensemble in 1998. During the 2024/25 season you can hear him as Captain Sturmwald in a new production of Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist and he repeats his wonderful portrayals of the Shabby Mann in Lady Macbeth von Mzensk, Ossip the Deacon in Rimsky-Korsakov's Chrismas Eve (»Performance of the Year 2022 « - Opernwelt - get the DVD!), Faninal's Major Domo in Der Rosenkavalier and Porcus/ A Herald / A Cleric in Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher. Last season roles included Apollo in Daphne, Piet the Pot and the Prince of Mantua in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Offenbach's The Bandits, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte and Aegisthe in Elektra and he sang Mime in the Ring again the Tirol Festival in Erl. Roles the previous season included a Ring Leader in Kurt Weill's The Tsar has his Photograph Taken, Monsieur Taupe (role debut) in Capriccio and his wonderful portrayals of the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel and Goro in Madama Butterfly. In 2021/22 he sang 4th Jew in Salome, and Desiré in Giordano's Fedora. Other roles for the company included Antinous (Fauré's Pénélope), the Rebel (The Secret Kingdom), Oedipus (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex), Leukippos (Daphne), the Captain (Wozzeck), Trimalchio (Maderna's Satyricon), the Witch (Hänsel und Gretel), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Matteo (Arabella). Roles in earlier seasons included Lord Arturo Bucklaw (Lucia di Lammermoor), the title role in Zemlinsky's The Dwarf, Kimmo (Sallinen's Kullervo) and Mozart (Rimski-Korsakov's Mozart und Salieri). He enjoyed great success singing Walter in a new production of Weinberg's The (female) Passenger in Frankfurt, which went on tour to the Festwochen in Vienna – a role this American tenor then performed at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. He enjoyed great success as Peter Grimes at the Staastheater in Nürnberg, a role he also sang at Oper Dortmund. Other recent engagements have taken him to Irish National Opera in Dublin for Aegisth in Elektra, Seattle Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Munich, Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg state operas, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Tiflis, Montepulciano, Tokyo and the Bregenz and Edinburgh festivals.