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The English baritone, Peter Shropshire, studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal College of Music with Quentin Hayes, Peter Savidge and Andrew Robinson, where he was a Draper’s Scholar and supported by the Walker Trust. He was the winner of the International Medal at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Christopher Ball first prize at the John Kerr Award for English Song, and was the runner-up of the London Bach Society Bach Singers Prize and Patricia Routledge Award for English Song. He is Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2025-2027), Rising Star of Voice at the Edinburgh International Festival (2025) and finalist of the 2025 London Handel Festival Singing Competition.
Peter Edge has been a principal artist with some of the UK’s leading opera companies: English Touring Opera, The Grange Festival, Longborough Festival Opera, Opera North and the Royal Ballet and Opera. Since graduating, he has performed a number of roles, including Barone di Trombonok in Il Viaggio a Reims, Baron Douphol in La Traviata, Count Almaviva and Figaro in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe, Keeper of the Madhouse in Igor Stravinsky's Rake’s Progress, Ned Keene in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème.
On the concert platform, Peter Edge makes his European solo debut with the Constellation Choir & Orchestra (Director: John Eliot Gardiner) in autumn 2025, singing Felix Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgistnacht, and will make his solo debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in winter 2025, singing J.S. Bach's cantatas BWV 5, BWV 36, BWV 111, BWV 100 and BWV 97. Future concert work includes the role of Christus and the bass solos in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 at the Queen Elizabeth II Hall in spring 2026, under the baton of Johanna Soller. |
