Recipient of Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s John Christie Award, and the 2018 Nederlandse Muziekprijs, Dutch tenor Peter Gijsbertsen has performed with leading companies internationally.
Previous role highlights include Tamino/Die Zauberflote (Opera Oviedo; Scottish Opera; Opera Vlaanderen; Opéra de Fribourg; Opera Zuid); Alfredo/La traviata (Scottish Opera & Longborough Festival Opera); Roméo/Roméo et Juliette and Gonzalve/L’heure Espagnole (Opera Zuid); The Novice/Billy Budd (The Bolshoi Theatre, Russia); Janicek/The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Opera de Lyon; Opera Vlaanderen; Opera de Rennes; Muziektheater Transparant); Kaherdin and 3rd tenor/Le vin herbé (Staatsoper Berlin); The Novice and Maintop/Billy Budd, Der Junge Seemann/ Tristan and Isolde, and Lucano and Liberto/ L’incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne Festival Opera & BAM New York); Eurimaco and Giove/Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Oper Köln); Graf Albert/Die tote Stadt (ABAO Bilboa); Acis/ Acis and Galatea (Opéra de Fribourg; Dorset Opera Festival); Gernando/L’isola disabitata (Nederlandse Reisopera). Peter has worked with many leading international conductors and directors including Sir Mark Elder, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir David McVicar, Emmanuel Haïm, Katie Mitchell, Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Kent, Robert Carsen, Jonathan Cohen, David Parry, Vladimir Jurowski and Edo de Waart.