Peter Savidge

Baritone

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  One of Britain’s most distinguished and best established baritones, Peter Savidge has performed for the major opera companies in the UK and for many leading houses in Europe and elsewhere. His elegant and well focused style of singing has been singled out for particularly high praise.

  He made his professional debut with the English Music Theatre and has featured regularly for Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Gardens in roles such as Figaro Barber of Seville, Sharpless Madam Butterfly, Don Giovanni Don Giovanni, The Count Marriage of Figaro, Don Alfonso Cosi fan Tutte, Faninal Der Rosenkavalier, The Traveller Death in Venice and Ned Keene Peter Grimes and Mr. Flint Billy Budd.

  Abroad he has sung roles for Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Opera de Rhin Strasbourg, Opera Comique and Chatelet Theatre Paris, Cologne Opera and houses in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Nancy, Genova, Modena and Reggio Emilia.

  As well appearing in all the major British concert venues, Peter Savidge has a formidable international career and has sung at the festivals of Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Florence, Venice, Tours, Brussels, Vienna, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, and Oslo.

  He has recorded albums of songs by Vaughan Williams, Bax and Bantock; with conductors Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Charles Mackerras and Albert Herring with Steuart Bedford. Equally at home in light music, he has featured on Friday Night is Music Night and with the RTE in Dublin.

  Peter Savidge is represented worldwide by Andrew Rosner at Rayfield Allied.
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  • Madama Butterfly
    New Zealand Opera (April 2013)

    The baritone Peter Savidge as Pinkerton’s ineffectual conscience, the consul Sharpless, combines lightness with intensity – and that’s very rare for his vocal range. He’s terrific.

    Simon Wilson, Metro Arts Auckland

    Lucy Schaufer and Peter Savidge as Suzuki and Sharpless were vivid performers, both caring for Butterfly, but powerless to stop the action.

    Douglas Elliot, The Opera Critic

  • Madam Butterfly, Opera North
    Autumn 2011

    Peter Savidge was, as he always is in Opera North productions, effortlessly brilliant.

    Rod McPhee, Yorkshire Evening Post

    Peter Savidge was excellent as Sharpless, the American consul who tries in vain both to restrain Pinkerton and to get Butterfly to face harsh reality. The mixture of perception and diffidence was perfectly expressed.

    Anthony Arblaster, The Independent

    Peter Savidge is outstanding as an anguished Sharpless

    Richard Morrison, The Times

    even better is Peter Savidge as the American consul Sharpless, whose every shrug suggesting the world-weary cynicism of the professional diplomat.

    Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk

    So the blame rests with an unhealthy collusion between East and West – and poor Consul Sharpless is in the firing line! Without the power to do more than warn Pinkerton, Sharpless is helpless, but complicit – all of which is conveyed in the performance of Peter Savidge, refined over several Opera North Butterflies, urbane, but tormented, his suave, soft-grained baritone exuding sympathy in every note.

    Ron Simpson, What’s On Stage

• Peter Savidge’s Opera Repertoire

  BIRTWISTLE

  • Punch & Judy (Choregos)

  BIZET

  • Carmen (Dan Cairo, Morales)
  • Pecheurs de Perles (Zurga)

  BLOW

  • Venus & Adonis

  BRAUNFELS

  • Die Vogel (Prometheus)

  BRITTEN

  • Curlew River (Ferryman; Traveller)
  • Burning Fiery Furnace (Abbot/Astrologer)
  • The Prodigal Son
  • Albert Herring (Vicar)
  • Billy Budd (Mr. Redburn, Mr. Flint)
  • Death in Venice (baritone roles)
  • Owen Wingrave (Coyle)
  • Paul Bunyan (various roles)
  • Peter Grimes (Ned Keene)
  • Rape of Lucretia (Junius, Collatinus)

  DONIZETTI

  • Don Pasquale (Malatesta)
  • L’Elisir d’amore (Belcore, Dulcamara)
  • La Favorita (Alphonso)

  GOUNOD

  • Romeo et Juliette (Capulet)

  HANDEL

  • Tamurlano (Leone)
  • Rodelinda (Garibaldo)

  HAYDN

  • L’Anima del Filosofo

  HOLST

  • Savitri (Death)

  JANACEK

  • From the House of the Dead (Goryanchikov)

  KRENEK

  • What Price Confidence?

  LEHAR

  • Merry Widow (Danilo)

  MARTIN

  • Le Vin Herbe

  MARTINU

  • Julietta (L’homme au casque, vendeur des reves)

  MASSENET

  • Manon (Lescaut)
  • Cherubin (Le Comte)

  MATTHUS

  • The Song of Love and Death (Marquis)

  MENOTTI

  • Amahl and the Night Visitors (Melchior)

  MOZART

  • Cosi fan Tutte (Don Alfonso)
  • Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
  • La Finta Giardiniera (Nardo)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro (Il Conte)
  • Die Zauberflote (Papageno, Sprecher)

  OFFENBACH

  • La Perichole

  PUCCINI

  • La Boheme (Marcello, Schaunard)
  • Madama Butterfly (Sharpless)
  • La Rondine (Rambaldo)
  • Turandot (Ping)

  PURCELL

  • Dido and Aeneas
  • The Fairy Queen

  RAVEL

  • L’Enfant et les Sortileges (Horloge Comtoise)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

  • Mozart and Salieri

  ROSSINI

  • La Cenerentola (Dandini)
  • Le Comte Ory (Rambaldo)

  J. STRAUSS

  • Die Fledermaus (Falke)

  R. STRAUSS

  • Ariadne (Harlequin, Music Master)
  • Intermezzo (Storch)
  • Der Rosenkavalier (Faninal)

  STRAVINSKY

  • The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow)

  TCHAIKOVSKY

  • Eugene Onegin

  VERDI

  • La Traviata (Germont Pere)

  WAGNER

  • Gotterdammerung (Gunther)

  WALTON

  • The Bear

  WEILL

  • Der Jasager (Teacher)
  • Street Scene
  • Threepenny Opera (Macheath)

  Peter Savidge’s Concert Repertoire

  CPE BACH

  • Magnificat

  J.S. BACH

  • Various Cantatas incl. No. 82 Ich habe genug
  • No. 56 Ich will mein Kreuzstab gerne tragen
  • Weihnachts Oratorium
  • Magnificat
  • Easter Oratorio
  • Mass in B minor
  • Johannes Passion (Christus/Arias)
  • Matthaeus Passion (Christus/Arias)

  BEETHOVEN

  • Symphony No. 9
  • Mass in C

  BERLIOZ

  • L’Enfance du Christ

  BRAHMS

  • Ein Deutches Requiem
  • Liebeslieder Waltzes

  BRITTEN

  • War Requiem

  DALLAPICCOLA

  • Cinque Canti

  DELIUS

  • Sea Drift
  • Songs of Farewell

  DURUFLE

  • Requiem

  DVORAK

  • Stabat Mater

  ELGAR

  • The Apostles
  • The Kingdom
  • The Dream of Gerontius
  • Coronation Ode
  • Lux Christi

  FAURÉ

  • Requiem

  HANDEL

  • Acis and Galatea
  • Apollo e Dafne
  • Israel in Egypt
  • Jephtha
  • Judas Maccabaeus
  • Messiah
  • Samson
  • Saul

  HAYDN

  • Various Masses
  • The Seasons
  • The Creation

  HENZE

  • Novae de Infinitae Laudes

  HONEGGER

  • Le Roi David
  • Cris du Monde

  JANACEK

  • Glagolitic Mass

  MENDELSSOHN

  • Elijah

  MONTEVERDI

  • Vespers 1610

  MOZART

  • Various Masses
  • Requiem

  PURCELL

  • Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day
  • Dialogues

  RACHMANINOV

  • The Bells
  • Spring (Op. 20)

  ROSSINI

  • Petite Messe Solennelle

  SCHOENBERG

  • A Survivor from Warsaw

  SCHUBERT

  • Masses

  SZYMANOWSKI

  • Stabat Mater(Polish)

  TIPPETT

  • A Child of Our Time

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Fantasia on Christmas Carols
  • Mass in G
  • Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Five Tudor Portraits

  WALTON

  • Belshazzar’s Feast
  • Façade (Narrator)

  WEILL

  • Berliner Requiem

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