“The Lysander of Peter Edge is acted and sung stylishly with Peter doing an excellent introduction to the evening before the show starts”
-Mel Cooper, PLAYS TO SEE, 2023
Shropshire baritone, Peter Edge, graduated from the Royal College of Music as a Master of Music in Vocal Performance. He is fast building a reputation as a charismatic singer and has won numerous competitions, including the International Medal at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Christopher Ball First Prize in the John Kerr Award for English Song and the Chris Treglown Memorial Award. He was also runner up in the 2024 LBS Bach Singers Prize and semi finalist in the Eastbourne International Song Competition.
Since graduating, Peter has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including the Carnegie Hall in New York, Opéra royal de Versailles, and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Recent roles include Lysander in Purcell’s Fairy Queen with Longborough Festival Opera, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro and Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème with Hampstead Garden Opera and Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. In 2023, Peter enjoyed his second season as a principal artist with English Touring Opera and performed roles in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Handel’s Guilio Cesare and Rossini’s Il Viaggio A Reims.
In summer 2024, Peter enjoyed his first season with The Grange Festival Opera, covering the roles of Sacristan in Puccini’s Tosca and The Keeper of the Madhouse in Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress. Peter made his Royal Opera role debut in the Linbury Theatre this Autumn, in Bernstein’s double bill: Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place. He returns to the Royal Opera in 2025 to perform in Verdi’s Aida.
As a regular bass in the Monteverdi Choir, Peter was invited to sing at King Charles III’s Coronation and has appeared in concerts across the globe.
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Press
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Roy Westbrook - Bachtrack
“Part of a very accomplished team, Peter Edge sounded well as a topless lover.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Mike Smith - Opera Scene
“The men have opportunities to shine, including a rich baritone Lysander from Peter Edge”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Claire Seymour - Opera Today
“The passionate confusion of Peter Edge’s Lysander is mesmerisingly potent.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Colin Davison - British Theatre Guide
“Baritone Peter Edge as Lysander shines in his aria, and both he and Luke Horner’s Demetrius are in good form as they battle over confused loves.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Curtis Rogers - Classical Source
“Peter Edge and Luke Horner as the human Lysander and Demetrius are vehement contestants for Hermia, giving exacting accounts of Purcell’s music, in full control of his ebullient vocal writing, but imbuing it with personality too.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Mel Cooper - Plays To See
“The Lysander of Peter Edge is acted and sung stylishly with Peter doing a introduction to the evening before the show starts”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Anthony Bradbury - Midland's Music Review
“The Athens lover’s quartet were well matched, including Peter Edge’s Lysander (baritone), with polished blend in their various combinations.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Sam Smith - Music OMH
“There are a plethora of excellent performances from among the young cast, with Peter Edge standing out as Lysander.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Ron Simpson - The Reviews Hub
“....Peter Edge’s energetic and engaging Figaro is the perfect foil…”
Figaro (February 2020)
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David Winskill - Ham & High
“Peter Edge’s Count Almaviva conclusively proved there is no fool like and old fool as he roared around the stage in his mobile opium den, chasing anyone who caught his eye.”
Le Nozze di Figaro - Hampstead Garden Opera (November 2021)
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Christopher Morley - Opera Magazine
“Peter Edge was the confident personable Figaro, even able to nuance his delivery and dynamics in these conditions. [Peter] sang with clarity, wonderful purity of intonation, and exemplary Italian.”
Figaro (October 2020)
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Robert Murray - NODA London
“Peter’s interaction with the other characters was incredible – he also got most of the laughs on the translation. He spent some of the time in the audience performing and nothing phased his polished performance. The argument with Musetta and the making up was strong characterisation by both actors.”
La Boheme (November 2019)
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Robert Hugill - Planet Hugill
Peter Edge made a strong, intelligent Christus; he evinced real confidence in the meaning of the text as well as creating a distinct personality. He brought the same musical intelligence to the bass solos. The arioso 'Betrachte, meine seel' with its lute obbligato was intense with strong words. 'Eilt' was vividly done, with good passagework and fine words. 'Mein teurer Heiland' combined bright tone with a lovely sense of movement.
St John Passion - St Martin in the Fields (2023)
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Planet Hugill
“The result was something of a 45-minute tour de force for baritone Peter Edge, whose engaging performance very much carried the piece. Edge managed to bring personality to what was less of a narrative and more of a thoughtful and complex philosophical consideration.”
Timeless Figure - Tête à Tête (September 2020)