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 2026/27 season you can hear him as Soliman and Panais in new productions of Mozart's Zaide and Martinů's The Greek Passion - role debuts - and he repeats his wonderful portrayals of the Witch, Ossip, the Deacon and 4th Jew in Hänsel und Gretel, Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve and Salome. Last season he sang Missail in a new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Spoletta in Tosca, the Prince of Mantua in Offenbach's The Bandits, Goro in Madama Butterfly, Schmidt in Werther and the Ring Leader in Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken, which were preceded by Captain Sturmwald in a new production of Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist, the Shabby Mann in Lady Macbeth von Mzensk, Faninal's Major Domo in Der Rosenkavalier and Porcus/ A Herald / A Cleric again in Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher. Other roles for the company included Apollo & Leukippos in Daphne, Piet the Pot in a new Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), his brilliant Witch (Hänsel und Gretel), the title role in Zemlinsky's The Dwarf, Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Aegisthe (Elektra), Monsieur Taupe (Capriccio), title role (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex), the Captain (Wozzeck), Mime (Wagner's Ring - a role he was cheered to the rafters for at the 2024 Tirol Summer Festival in Erl), Trimalchio (Maderna's Satyricon), Matteo (Arabella), Lord Bucklaw (Lucia di Lammermoor), Kimmo (Sallinen's Kullervo) and Mozart (Rimski-Korsakov's Mozart und Salieri). He earned critical acclaim for singing Walter here in a new production of Weinberg'sThe (female) Passenger, which toured to the Festwochen in Vienna - a role this American tenor performed at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. He enjoyed great success with Peter Grimes at the Staastheater in Nürnberg, a role he sang in 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.