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Peter Bronder

Tenor

  • The star is undoubtedly the impish sardonic Loge of Peter Bronder... He sings his music quite magnificently, with incisive diction and an innate sense of the fire god’s irony
    Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times
  • At the centre is a performance of considerable power from Peter Bronder as Idomeneo, his body racked with emotion, his voice at once noble and terrified. His coloratura expresses a deep inner anguish
    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 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 Mime Der Ring des Nibelungen (Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Berlin), 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 Daniel Barenboim, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Rafael Fruebeck de Burgos, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Jordan, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kyril Petrenko and Sebastian Weigle. He has made numerous radio broadcasts, and recorded for Decca, DGG, EMI, Philips, Teldec and Chandos.

    Peter Bronder is represented worldwide by Andrew Rosner at Rayfield Allied.
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    • Siegfried
      Berlin Staatsoper

      Peter Bronder and Johannes Martin Kränzle sang most eloquently off the words as Mime and Alberich, the former reminding me of the unique Gerhard Stolze; the Act 2 scene for the two unholy brothers was an unexpected highlight.
      Carlos Maria Solare, Opera Magazine

    • 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

    • 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

  • 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

    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)
    • Rienzi (title role)
    • Das Liebesverbot (Luzio)
    WEBER
    • Oberon (Huon)
    ZEMLINSKY
    • Der Zwerg (Der Zwerg)

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