Peter Bronder

Tenor

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  Peter Bronder studied at the Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio, before taking his first engagements at Glyndebourne and Welsh National Opera, where he was engaged as principal tenor in mainly Italian lyric repertoire. Recently he has moved into the more dramatic, predominantly German repertoire. He has made numerous appearances in the UK at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Opera North and Scottish Opera.

  Notable engagements include Herod Salome (Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro Regio Turin), the title roles in Der Zwerg and Palestrina in Frankfurt, Loge Das Rheingold (Edinburgh Festival, Stuttgart), as well as appearing at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, San Francisco Opera, Netherlands Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, Komische Oper Berlin, Flanders Opera, Teatro de la Maestranza Seville, and at the Chatelet Paris.

  Concert appearances include the major orchestras in London, Cleveland, Boston, Pittsburgh with eminent conductors including Christoph von Dohnanyi, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Jordan, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kyril Petrenko, and Rafael Fruebeck de Burgos. He has made numerous radio broadcasts, and recorded for Decca, DGG, EMI, Philips, Teldec and Chandos.

  Future plans include Mime Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Daniel Barenboim at La Scala Milan and Staatsoper Berlin and the title roles in Palestrina for Oper Zurich and Peter Grimes in Bielefeld. He also sings concert performances of Mime Siegfried with Kent Nagano in Bergen.

  Peter Bronder is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.
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  • Falstaff (Dr. Caius)
    Metropolitan Opera New York

    Dr Caius (Peter Bronder in his Met debut) took the stage and began singing in a strong, firm tenor. When such a small part is so well cast you are in for an unusual evening; the attention to detail that characterised his performance has become, unfortunately, unusual.

    Anne Midgette, New York Times

  • Salome (Herod)
    La Scala, Milan

    ...prestazione impeccabile...

    Sara Mamone, Drammaturgia.it

    L’Herodes di Peter Bronder […] delinea appropriatamente un Tetrarca “voglioso” ma al contempo succube della consorte

    Ugo Malasoma, Operaclick

  • Salome (Herod)
    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    tenor Peter Bronder’s Herod came insistently forwards and crackled with life. Acclaimed as the trickster, Loge, in Wagner’s Ring, he transferred something of that character’s volatile intensity to his depiction of the ruthless but self-defeated tetrarch of Galilee, who is superstitiously afraid of killing the prophet, and whose tragedy is precisely that he doesn’t have a trick up his sleeve to resist Salome’s wiles. But he has the last word. His abrupt “Man töte dieses Weib!” (“Kill that woman!”), curtailing the action and completing the tremendous 90-minute unfolding, was the shattering surprise it has to be

    Paul Driver, Sunday Times

    But it was Peter Bronder's Herod that really stood out, both for his complete inhabiting of the role and for sheer vocal heft.

    David Fanning, Daily Telegraph

    Peter Bronder - brilliantly playing Herod as a pervy tin-pot dictator unable to control his feelings or his kingdom

    Richard Morrison, The Times

    Peter Bronder was a splendid Herod

    Philip Radcliffe, Manchester Evening News

  • Salome (Herod)
    London Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Bronder is a wonderful Herod, a real slimeball, at once funny and sinister, vocally more refined than many and avoiding the usual tendency to bark rather than sing.

    Tim Ashley, The Guardian

    Peter Bronder’s Herod, every word sung and acted for the greatest impact, was chillingly good, even funny, and weirdly moral.

    Robert Thicknesse, The Times

• Peter Bronder’s Opera Repertoire

  BEETHOVEN

  • Fidelio (Florestan)

  BERG

  • Wozzeck (Hauptmann)

  BRITTEN

  • Peter Grimes (Grimes, Bob Boles)

  DALLAPICCOLA

  • Il Prigioniero (Jailor/Grand Inquisitor)
  • Volo di Notte (Radiotelegrafista)

  JANACEK

  • Jenufa (Laca-in German)
  • Makropoulos (Hauk Sendorf)

  MOZART

  • Idomeneo (Idomeneo)
  • La Clemenza di Tito (Titus)

  MUSSORGSKY

  • Boris Godunov (Shuisky)

  PFITZNER

  • Palestrina (Palestrina)

  SCHREKER

  • Der Schatzgraeber (Narr)

  SHOSTAKOVITCH

  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Peasant)

  J.STRAUSS

  • Die Fledermaus (Alfred)

  R.STRAUSS

  • Salome (Herodes)
  • Rosenkavalier (Valzacchi)

  STRAVINSKY

  • The Rake’s Progress (Sellem)

  WAGNER

  • Das Rheingold (Loge, Mime)
  • Siegfried (Mime)
  • Der Fliegende Hollaender (Erik)

  WEBER

  • Oberon (Huon)

  ZEMLINSKY

  • Der Zwerg (Der Zwerg)

  Peter Bronder’s Concert Repertoire

  BACH

  • Magnificat
  • B minor Mass
  • St. Matthew Passion

  BEETHOVEN

  • Symphony No. 9
  • Missa Solemnis
  • Christus am Oelberge

  BIRTWISTLE

  • Love Cries
  • The Mask of Orpheus

  BRITTEN

  • War Requiem
  • St. Nicholas

  DVORAK

  • Stabat Mater
  • Requiem

  ELGAR

  • Dream of Gerontius
  • The Kingdom
  • The Apostles

  HANDEL

  • Messiah
  • Belshazzar
  • Samson

  MAHLER

  • Das Lied von der Erde

  ORFF

  • Carmina Burana

  SCHMIDT

  • Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (Johannes)

  VERDI

  • Requiem

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