Peter Rose
Over his long career, bass Peter Rose has appeared in opera and concert music with a variety of top conductors. He has a large repertory covering many operatic bass roles in various languages.
Rose was born in Canterbury, England, on March 27, 1961. His family was not particularly musical; his father was a police officer, and he encountered resistance when he announced his intention to pursue a musical career. Rose attended the University of East Anglia, studying music and intending to pursue a career as an educator and, perhaps, to sing solos in local choral performances, but he continued on with voice lessons, and friends noticed his consistent improvement. So he decided to go on for vocal studies with Ellis Keeler at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has called his operatic career "accidental." During his studies, Rose won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship and the Glyndebourne John Christie Award. His operatic debut came in 1986 with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Hong Kong, as the Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Rose made his recording debut in 1991 in a production with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra led by Daniel Barenboim; he would go on to work with Barenboim frequently in the future.
Rose's repertory includes major bass roles in German, Italian, Russian, French, and English opera. During the first part of his career, he appeared more often abroad than in Britain, but he has become an international star with appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in several roles, as well as the Lyric Opera of Chicago, major German houses, and Covent Garden in London, among many other houses. He is in demand as a concert singer, having performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D major, Op. 125, under conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, under multiple conductors; Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti; and other major choral works from the 18th to the 20th century. Rose's recording catalog comprises more than 40 items, including a 2023 performance of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 14, Op. 135, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, released on the Chandos label.
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Discography
7 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Haydn: The Creation
Toby Spence, Nicole Heaston, Peter Rose, Houston Symphony Chorus, Houston Symphony, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Jun. 1, 2018
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Sunshine
Alternative & Indie - Released by Bad Morning on Mar. 15, 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
We are not where we started, Pt. 2
Alternative & Indie - Released by Bad Morning on Feb. 17, 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Monks Obey
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by St Shenouda Monastery on Jul. 17, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
This Is How We're Gonna All Escape
Dance - Released by Bad Morning on Nov. 12, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
We are not where we started (Pt. 1)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Bad Morning on Oct. 14, 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo