Born in Hertfordshire of German Austrian parentage, Peter Bronder studied at the Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio before debuting as principal tenor at Glyndebourne and WNO. Early appearances included La bohème, La traviata, Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor, alongside Mozart and Strauss works.
He has since become associated with dramatic German repertoire, notably Mime Siegfried at La Scala, Staatsoper Berlin, Barcelona, Palermo and Bergen, and Herod Salome in Milan, Madrid, Turin, São Paolo and Hong Kong. Other highlights include Loge Das Rheingold for Scottish Opera, Erik DerFliegendeHolländer in Paris and Rouen, and the title role in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg in Frankfurt, Seville and Lisbon. He has also sung Peter Grimes, Pfitzner’s Palestrina (recorded on CD) and Wagner’s Rienzi. His UK appearances include Covent Garden, ENO, Opera North and Scottish Opera, with further credits at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Bregenz Festival, Netherlands Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, La Monnaie, San Francisco Opera and Opéra de Paris, where he returns in 2025/26 as Triquet in Eugene Onegin.
Equally active in concert, he has worked with Barenboim, Haitink, Pappano, Dohnanyi and Petrenko. He records for Decca, EMI, Philips and Chandos, and appears on DVDs of Siegfried, Salome, Boris Godunov and Andrea Chénier.