Peter Rose

PETER ROSE made his opera debut as Commendatore (Don Giovanni) in Hong Kong in 1986 in the course of a guest appearance of the Glyndebourne Festival. Regular appearances have since then led him to Aix-en-Provence, Paris, London, Rome, to the New Yorker Metropolitan Opera, to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Milan, the Berliner Staatsoper, to Sydney, Barcelona, to Hamburg, Tokyo, to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, to Chicago, San Francisco, Salzburg, Bregenz, Munich, Amsterdam and Dresden – to name but a few. He celebrated triumphs as Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Claggart (Billy Budd), Ramfis (Aida), Mustafa (L’italiana in Algeri), Philipp (Don Carlo), Kezal (Verkaufte Braut), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Falstaff, Leporello (Don Giovanni), Walter (Luisa Miller), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Silva (Ernani), Fasolt (Das Rheingold). He made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 1997 as Marke (Tristan und Isolde) and has since then sung Claggart, Gremin, Rocco, Gurnemanz, Ochs, Daland and Sarastro.