“The Lysander of Peter Edge is acted and sung stylishly with Peter doing an excellent introduction to the evening before the show starts”
-Mel Cooper, PLAYS TO SEE, 2023
Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2025-27), Rising Star of Voice at the Edinburgh International Festival (2025) and finalist of the 2025 London Handel Festival Singing Competition; Shropshire-born baritone Peter Edge has been a principal artist with some of the UK’s leading opera companies: English Touring Opera, The Grange Festival, Longborough Festival Opera, Opera North and the Royal Ballet and Opera.
Peter studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal College of Music with Quentin Hayes, Peter Savidge and Andrew Robinson, where he was a Draper’s Scholar and supported by the Walker Trust. Since graduating, Peter has performed a number of roles, including Barone di Trombonok Il Viaggio a Reims, Baron Douphol La Traviata, Count Almaviva and Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Lord Mountararat Iolanthe, Keeper of the Madhouse Rake’s Progress, Ned Keene Peter Grimes and Marcello and Schaunard La Bohème.
Peter was the winner of the International Medal at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Christopher Ball first prize at the John Kerr Award for English Song, and was the runner-up of the London Bach Society Bach Singers Prize and Patricia Routledge Award for English Song.
On the concert platform, Peter makes his European solo debut with the Constellation Choir and Orchestras in autumn 2025, singing Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgistnacht, and will make his solo debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in winter 2025, singing Bach’s cantatas BWV 5, 36, 111, 100 and 97. Future concert work includes the role of Christus and the bass solos in Bach’s Johannes-Passion at the Queen Elizabeth II Hall in spring 2026, under the baton of Johanna Soller.
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Press
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Robert Hugill - Planet Hugill
“Peter Edge made a wonderfully uptight Baron Duphol with a real vicious edge barely help in check”
The Grange Festival - La Traviata (2025)
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George Hall - The Stage
“There are strong contributions in the well delivered smaller roles: Peter Edge (the gauche Baron Douphol)”
The Grange Festival - La Traviata (2025)
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Mark Aspen - Theatre Critics
“Baritone Peter Edge plays Douphol as a hard man, not the usual old duffer, his wits sharp and his temper quick. Edge sings with a staccato bite, which gives an air of menace.”
The Grange Festival - La Traviata (2025)
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David Truslove - Opera Today
“…finely sung with considerable charm”
The Grange Festival - La Traviata (2025)
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Roy Westbrook - Bachtrack
“Part of a very accomplished team, Peter Edge sounded well as a topless lover.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Mike Smith - Opera Scene
“The men have opportunities to shine, including a rich baritone Lysander from Peter Edge”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Claire Seymour - Opera Today
“The passionate confusion of Peter Edge’s Lysander is mesmerisingly potent.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Colin Davison - British Theatre Guide
“Baritone Peter Edge as Lysander shines in his aria, and both he and Luke Horner’s Demetrius are in good form as they battle over confused loves.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Curtis Rogers - Classical Source
“Peter Edge and Luke Horner as the human Lysander and Demetrius are vehement contestants for Hermia, giving exacting accounts of Purcell’s music, in full control of his ebullient vocal writing, but imbuing it with personality too.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Mel Cooper - Plays To See
“The Lysander of Peter Edge is acted and sung stylishly with Peter doing a introduction to the evening before the show starts”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Anthony Bradbury - Midland's Music Review
“The Athens lover’s quartet were well matched, including Peter Edge’s Lysander (baritone), with polished blend in their various combinations.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Sam Smith - Music OMH
“There are a plethora of excellent performances from among the young cast, with Peter Edge standing out as Lysander.”
Longborough Festival Opera - The Fairy Queen (2023)
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Ron Simpson - The Reviews Hub
“....Peter Edge’s energetic and engaging Figaro is the perfect foil…”
Figaro (February 2020)
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David Winskill - Ham & High
“Peter Edge’s Count Almaviva conclusively proved there is no fool like and old fool as he roared around the stage in his mobile opium den, chasing anyone who caught his eye.”
Le Nozze di Figaro - Hampstead Garden Opera (November 2021)
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Christopher Morley - Opera Magazine
“Peter Edge was the confident personable Figaro, even able to nuance his delivery and dynamics in these conditions. [Peter] sang with clarity, wonderful purity of intonation, and exemplary Italian.”
Figaro (October 2020)
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Robert Murray - NODA London
“Peter’s interaction with the other characters was incredible – he also got most of the laughs on the translation. He spent some of the time in the audience performing and nothing phased his polished performance. The argument with Musetta and the making up was strong characterisation by both actors.”
La Boheme (November 2019)
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Robert Hugill - Planet Hugill
Peter Edge made a strong, intelligent Christus; he evinced real confidence in the meaning of the text as well as creating a distinct personality. He brought the same musical intelligence to the bass solos. The arioso 'Betrachte, meine seel' with its lute obbligato was intense with strong words. 'Eilt' was vividly done, with good passagework and fine words. 'Mein teurer Heiland' combined bright tone with a lovely sense of movement.
St John Passion - St Martin in the Fields (2023)
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Planet Hugill
“The result was something of a 45-minute tour de force for baritone Peter Edge, whose engaging performance very much carried the piece. Edge managed to bring personality to what was less of a narrative and more of a thoughtful and complex philosophical consideration.”
Timeless Figure - Tête à Tête (September 2020)