TENOR
Mauro Peter
Representation: Concert
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GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was born in Lucerne and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. In 2012, he won both first prize and the audience prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and made his acclaimed lied recital debut at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin. Since then, he has returned regularly to the festival, and has appeared at leading venues including Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Brucknerhaus Linz, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, the Bavarian State Opera, the Opéra de Lyon, the Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Real in Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Zurich Opera House, and the Salzburg Festival.
Highlights of recent seasons have included his role debut as Eisenstein in a semi-staged performance of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus at the Musikverein für Steiermark and his first Loge in a concert performance of Wagner’s Das Rheingold with Concerto Köln under the direction of Kent Nagano. He also sang New Year’s Eve concerts at the Berlin State Opera under Christian Thielemann, operetta concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst at the Vienna Musikverein, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion at both the Concertgebouw and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. On the opera stage, he made his role debuts as Max in Weber’s Der Freischütz at the Bregenz Festival and as the Prince in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Semperoper Dresden. At Tokyo’s Kioi Hall, he appeared in a semi-staged production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte under the musical direction of Trevor Pinnock, and at his home opera house in Zurich he performed the tenor part in a staged realization of Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Highlights of the past season included his role debut as Loge in Wagner’s Das Rheingold at the Cologne Opera under Marc Albrecht. He also performed Hans Zender’s orchestral version of Schubert’s Winterreise in Christian Spuck’s ballet production at the Berlin State Opera. Mauro Peter toured as Tamino in a semi-staged version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Tarmo Peltokoski, a role he takes to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in summer 2026. In the 2026–27 season, he returns to the Zurich Opera in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic and will again appear as Loge in Wagner’s Das Rheingold with Concerto Köln and Kent Nagano.
On the concert platform, in addition to song recitals at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Frankfurt Opera, and Wigmore Hall, Mauro Peter will appear in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony with the Dresden Philharmonic under Martin Lehmann, Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri under Antonello Manacorda in Strasbourg, Handel’s Messiah under Masato Suzuki, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, Mendelssohn’s Walpurgis Night with the Munich Philharmonic under Andrés Orozco-Estrada, followed by Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Bordeaux.
Mauro Peter is deeply devoted to the lied genre. With his wide-ranging recital programmes, he has appeared at venues including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Cologne Philharmonie, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, the Verbier Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Last season, together with Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton, he enjoyed great success performing Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Vienna Musikverein. In September 2026, the trio will present the song cycle at Frankfurt Opera.
Following a live recording of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin from Wigmore Hall, his debut album for Sony Classical was released in 2015, featuring a selection of Schubert’s Goethe settings. This was followed in 2016 by a recording of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and a selection of other Schumann lieder. Recordings of lieder by Gustav Mahler with pianist Joseph Middleton, as well as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Antonello Manacorda, complete his discography.
2026 | 2027
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DISCOGRAPHY
Gustav Mahler: Songs of youth and awakening
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano), Mauro Peter (tenor), Sir Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
Label: signum Classics | 2026
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 in d-minor op. 125
Maria Bengtsson, Corinna Scheurle, Mauro Peter, Dmitry Ivashchenko,
Collegium Vocale 1704, Kammerakademie Potsdam
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Label: Sony | 2024
Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter and Benjamin Appl
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
conductor: Guillermo Garcia Calvo
Label | Pentatone 2022
Wolfgang Amandeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
DVD
Matthias Goerne, Mauro Peter, Albina Shagimuratova, Christiane Karg, Adam Plachetka, Klaus Maria Brandauer et al.
Wiener Philharmoniker | Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Conductor: Constantinos Carydis
Director: Lydia Steier
Label: Unitel | 2019
VIDEOS
CALENDAR
Nikola Hillebrand, soprano
Patricia Nolz, mezzosoprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
David Steffens, bass
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Lieder, duets and quartets by Franz Schubert
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSJulia Kleiter, soprano
Marie Henriette Reinhold, mezzo-soprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Dresdner Philharmonie
Martin Lehmann, conductor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lobgesang op. 52
Julia Kleiter, soprano
Marie Henriette Reinhold, mezzo-soprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Dresdner Philharmonie
Martin Lehmann, conductor
Hugo Wolf: Das Italienische Liederbuch
Louise Alder, soprano
Mauro Peter, tenor
Joseph Middleton, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 9 d minor op. 125
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Olivia Vermeulen, alto
Mauro Peter, tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor
CONTACT
Representation: Concert
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
- und Vertretung: Oper - Oliver Kretschmer | TACT Artists Management
- +49 (0)170 22 30 823
- oliver@tact4art.com
