BIO

BIOGRAPHY

Dutch baritone Peter Bording studied singing with Jan Handerson, graduated cum laude from the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam and concluded his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

His extensive repertoire spans all forms of music theatre.

What?
He sang the title roles in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Pelléas et Mélisande during the Wiener Festwochen, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Oper Graz, Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen, the Dutch Touring Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Hailed as "ideal Pelléas" by Opernwelt, he was nominated as Sänger des Jahres for his portrayal.
He performed Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) in numerous productions, Guglielmo (Cosí fan tutte), Nardo (La finta giardiniera) and a show stopping Conte Almaviva in Nicholas Broadhursts production of Le nozze di Figaro under Marc Albrecht.
He sang Kurt Weills Der Protagonist and Royal Palace at the Bregenzer Festspielen and the role of Da-Ud  (Die Ägyptische Helena) at the Richard-Strauss-Festival.With performances of Werner Egks Peer Gynt, the title role in Von Einems Dantons Tod and John Proctor in Robert Wards The Crucible, he continues to expand his repertoire.
Further major roles include Marcello (La bohème), Scarpia (Tosca), Tonio und Silvio (Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana), Rigoletto, Germont (La traviata), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Riccardo (I puritani), Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Heerrufer (Lohengin), Valentin (Faust), Albert (Werther) and Ramiro (L'heure espagnole).
In contemporary music, he created leading roles in Eötvös' Lady Sarashina, Jarrells Galilée and Bagwathi's Ramanujan for the opera houses in Lyon, Paris, Geneva and the Munich Biennale.

Brought up with operetta, Peter is a sought-after romantic lead for the classics in this repertoire.

He portrayed Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe) and Edwin (Die Csárdásfürstin) worldwide in over 25 different productions and plays the leads in Barrie Kosky's stagings of Kiss Me, Kate, La Cage aux folles, Orphée aux enfers, Die Perlen der Cleopatra and the European premiere of Kálmáns Broadway musical Marinka.

He originated the role of Antonio in Brigitte Fassbaender and Stephan Kanyars musical Shylock, sang the role of Andrea Coclé during the Austrian premiere of Korngolds Die stumme Serenade for the MusikTheater an der Wien and is as successful in musical theatre classics such as Show Boat, West Side Story, Candide, Cats, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera or A Little Night Music.

At De Doelen in Rotterdam, he hosted and sung the Rotterdam Philharmonic concert series Musical meets Opera.

His repertoire of concert works include Bach's Matthäus- and Johannes-Passion, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Orffs Carmina Burana. With the Christ solo in the Matthäus-Passion he made his US debut at the DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC. 

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Where?
A regular guest at the Komische Oper Berlin, he performed at the Bregenzer Festspielen, the Wiener Festwochen, the Richard-Strauss-Festival, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Hannover, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Oper Frankfurt, MusikTheater an der Wien, Oper Graz, l'Opéra national de Paris, l’Opéra comique Paris, l’Opéra national de Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Polish National Opera Warsaw, Dutch Touring Opera and to the opera and concert stages in Amsterdam, Enschede, Brussels, Antwerp, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Kanazawa, Washington DC, Innsbruck, Basel, Luzern, Leipzig, Cologne, Duisburg, Dortmund, Bonn, Wiesbaden, Bremen, Magdeburg, Erfurt, Gießen, Koblenz, Bielefeld, Schwerin, Wuppertal and many, many others.
He was the leading lyric baritone at Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen.

Who?

He has worked under the baton of conductors Marc Albrecht, Phillipe Auguin, Peter Eötvös, Peter Falk, Adam Fischer, Antonino Fogliani, Carlo Franci, Yakov Kreizberg, Helmuth Rilling, Mstislav Rostropovitsch, Koen Schoots, Stefan Soltesz, Lothar Zagrosek and with numerous prominent directors such as Barrie Kosky, Dietrich W. Hilsdorf, Johannes Schaaf, Nicolas Brieger, Elmar Gehlen, Michael Sturminger, Georg Schmiedleitner, Hugh Hudson, Ushio Amagatsu, Guy Joosten and Frank Van Laecke.
 

When?

During upcoming seasons, he will continue his run as Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld at the Komische Oper Berlin (now playing at the Schillertheater) and with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg.

In the chamber concerts series of the Duisburger Philharmoniker, he will present a program of Kurt Weill songs together with mezzo Susan Maclean and pianist Wolfgang Wiechert at the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle.

For the Austrian premiere of Kálmáns Marinka, he will revive his role of Joseph Bratfisch at the Oper Graz and he will return to the Komische Oper Berlin as Georges in La Cage aux folles and Achill in Die schöne Helena.