Tenor

Peter Van Hulle

Der Rosenkavalier

Biography

Peter Van Hulle’s many operatic engagements have included Hotel Porter in Britten’s Death in Venice (La Scala, Milan, La Monnaie, Brussels, Dutch National Opera and English National Opera), Pang in Puccini’s Turandot, Snout in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Shepherd in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (all ENO), Der Narr in Berg’s Wozzeck (ENO and BBC Symphony Orchestra),Charles Lamb in Sally Beamish’s Monster, Rector in Britten’s Peter Grimes, Schoolmaster in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Monostatos in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Goro in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Chaplitsky in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Dr Caius in Verdi’s Falstaff and First Brother in Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins (all Scottish Opera), and Sir Bruno Robertson in Bellini’s I puritani and Valzacchi in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (Welsh National Opera). His performance in Death in Venice is available on Opus Arte DVD, and other recordings include Schoolmaster, Mosquito and Grasshopper in The Cunning Little Vixen with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano/BBC TV). Recent engagements include Schoolmaster in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (WNO), Time/Peter Doody in Monckton and Talbot’s The Arcadians (Opera della Luna), Torquemada in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole (Mid Wales Opera), and Eisenstein in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus (West Green House).

May 2022