Peter Coleman-Wright

Who is Peter Coleman-Wright?

Peter Coleman-Wright is an Australian baritone from Geelong. He began his career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang Guglielmo in Cosi, winning the Touring Prize. Subsequently he sang Sid in Albert Herring and Demtrius in A Midsummer Nights Dream and Pizzaro in Fidelio.

He performed many roles for English National Opera including Don Giovanni, Figaro, Billy Budd, Onegin, Scarpia, Michele, Toreador, The Forrester in Cunning little Vixen, Traveller Death in Venice, Prince from Homburg, The Prisoner by Dallapiccola. He made his Royal Opera Covent Garden debut as Dandini in La Cenerentola and has sung many roles for the company for 20 years. Roles include Billy Budd, Papageno, Don Alvaro in Viaggio a Reims,The Narrator Paul Bunyan, Marcello, Ping, Donner, Gunther and Beckmesser.

A champion of new works, he has premiered several roles for ENO, namely The Plumbers Gift by David Blake and Inquest of Love by Jonathan Harvey.

He made his European debut as the Soldier in Busoni's Dr. Faust for Netherlands Opera and subsequently worked for Bordeaux, Geneva, Bastille Paris, La Fenice Venice, Munich, Vienna, Brussells, Bregenz and Aix en Provence Festivals, La Scala Milan singing many roles including Don Giovanni, the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello, Sharpless in Butterfly, The Traveller Death in Venice and the Forrester.