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Peter Coleman-Wright is an Australian baritone from Geelong. He began his career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang Guglielmo in ''Così fan tutte'', winning the Touring Prize. Subsequently he sang Sid in ''Albert Herring'' and Demetrius in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and Pizzaro in ''Fidelio''. He performed many roles for English National Opera including Don Giovanni, Figaro, Billy Budd, Onegin, Scarpia, Michele, Toreador, The Forester in ''The Cunning Little Vixen'', Traveller in ''Death in Venice'', Prince from Homburg, and 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 ''Il viaggio a Reims'', The Narrator in ''Paul Bunyan'', Marcello, Ping, Donner, Gunther and Beckmesser. A champion of new works, he has premiered several roles for ENO, namely ''The Plumber's Gift'' by David Blake and ''Inquest of Love'' by Jonathan Harvey. He made his European debut as the Soldier in Busoni's ''Doktor Faust'' for Netherlands Opera and subsequently worked for Bordeaux, Geneva, Bastille Paris, La Fenice Venice, Munich, Vienna, Brussels, Bregenz and Aix en Provence Festivals, La Scala Milan singing many roles including Don Giovanni, the Count in ''The Marriage of Figaro'', Marcello, Sharpless in ''Madama Butterfly'', The Traveller in ''Death in Venice'' and the Forester. He made his American debut as Don Giovanni at New York City Opera and his Metropolitan Opera debut as Dr. Falke in ''Die Fledermaus'' returning for Marcello, Fieramosca (''Benvenuto Cellini'') and Belcore in ''L'elisir d'amore''. He sang Sharpless for the opening of the new theatre at Santa Fe and Rodrigo in ''Don Carlos'' and Sharpless for Houston Grand Opera. He also created the role of Henry Miles in Jake Heggie's ''The End of the Affair''. He has sung many roles for Opera Australia, including Golaud (''Pelléas et Mélisande''), Billy Budd, Scarpia, Don Giovanni, Mandryka, Macbeth, Sweeney Todd, The Traveller, winning a Helpmann Award for best supporting male. He created the role of Harry Joy in Brett Dean's ''Bliss'' (Brett Dean wrote the role especially for Coleman-Wright). He also performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010. He has been a very active concert singer working with many conductors and in most of the great concert halls, including Royal Albert Hall, London South Bank, Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Le Chatelet, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, St Cecilia Rome, Luxembourg, Aldeburgh Festival, and Avery Fisher New York. In 2002, he won the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical for his role in ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street''. He is married to operatic soprano Cheryl Barker and they have a son, Gabriel. Along with his wife, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 2009. ==Recordings== *''Delius: Requiem''/''A Mass of Life'' (1997 recording) *''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1998 recording) *''Delius – Fennimore and Gerda'' (1998 recording) *''Britten: Paul Bunyan'' (2000 recording) *''Mendelssohn – Paulus'' (2001 recording) *''Strauss – Die Liebe der Danae'' (2001 recording) *''Opera: The Greatest Moments Ever'' (2006 recording) *''Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini'' (2008 recording) *''Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex''; ''The Firebird'' (2008 recording) *''Britten: Owen Wingrave'' (2008 recording) *''Edward Collins: Daughter of the South'' (2010 recording) *''Walton: Belshazzar's Feast, Symphony No.1'' (2011 recording) *''The Marriage of Figaro'' (2011 recording) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Coleman-Wright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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