Shropshire baritone Peter Edge graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, as a Master of Music in Vocal Performance with Distinction, where he was supported by the Walker Trust and tutored by Peter Savidge. Recent competition successes include winning the Christopher Ball First Prize in the John Kerr Award for English Song and the Chris Treglown Memorial Award, as well as being runner-up in the Lesley Garrett Opera Prize and David Clover Singer’s Platform Recital Competition.
Recent opera roles include Betto di Signa in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, Schaunard (cover) in Puccini’s La Boheme and Afron in Rimsky Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel with English Touring Opera, Le Dançaire and Chorus in Bizet’s Carmen with Longborough Festival Opera and Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Hampstead Garden Opera. As a regular bass in the Monteverdi Choir, Peter has appeared in concerts at the Amsterdam Het Concertgebouw, Barcelona Palau de la Música, Berlin Philharmonie, London BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall and St Martin in the Fields, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Salzburger Festspiele and Zurich Tonhalle.
Peter returns to English Touring Opera in 2023; covering the role of Curio in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and performing the roles of Petrucci in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Gelsomino in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims.
Peter is kindly supported by Opera Prelude.