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 2023/24 season you can hear him as Apollo in Daphne, Ossip the Deacon in Rimsky Korsakov's The Night before Christmas (available on DVD!), Piet the Pot and the Herzog von Mantua in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Offenbach's The Bandits, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte and Aegisthe in Elektra. Last season he enjoyed great success as Monostatos, Aegisth and the Ring Leader in new productions of Die Zauberflöte, Elektra and Kurt Weill's The Tsar wants 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, Ossip, the Deacon, in a great new production of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Night Before Christmas (»Performance of the Year« Opernwelt magazine 2022) and Desiré in Giordano's Fedora. Other recent roles for the company have included Antinous (Fauré's Pénélope), the Rebel (The Secret Kingdom), Oedipus (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex), Leukippos and Apollo (Daphne), the Captain (Wozzeck), Trimalchio (Maderna's Satyricon), the Witch (Hänsel und Gretel), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Matteo (Arabella) and the Shabby Man (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk). 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 singing Mime in a new production of Siegfried at the 2023 Tirol Festval and Peter Grimes at the Staastheater in Nürnberg the previous summer, 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.