Peter Gijsbertsen
Tenor
Recipient of the Nederlandse Muziekprijs, Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s John Christie Award, and multiple prize winner at Den Bosch International Vocal Competition, Dutch tenor Peter Gijsbertsen has performed with leading companies internationally.
Peter Gijsbertsen | Gonzalve | L'heure espagnole | February, 2021
Peter Gijsbertsen | Dies bildnis ist bezaubernd schön | Die Zauberflöte
Peter Gijsbertsen | Non t'amo più | Klassiek in de stad | Tosti
Peter Gijsbertsen | 'Et fit lux' | International Vocalists Competition
Gijsbertsen’s operatic highlights include Tamino Die Zauberflöte (Opera Oviedo; Opera Zuid; Scottish Opera; Opera Vlaanderen; Opéra de Fribourg); Alfredo La Traviata (Scottish Opera & Longborough Festival Opera); Gonzalve L’heure Espagnole and Romeo Romeo et Juliette (Opera Zuid); The Novice Billy Budd (The Bolshoi Theatre, Russia); Janicek The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Muziektheater Transparant; Opéra de Rennes; Opéra de Lyon; Opera Vlaanderen); The Novice and Maintop Billy Budd, Lucano/Liberto L’incoronazione di Poppea, Der Junge Seemann Tristan and Isolde, and the prinicipal tenor The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne Festival Opera & BAM New York); Kaherdin/3rd tenor Le vin herbé (Berlin Staatsoper); Eurimaco/Giove Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Oper Köln); Graf Albert Die Tote Stadt (ABAO Bilboa); Acis Acis and Galatea (Opéra de Fribourg; Dorset Opera Festival); Balthasar Zorn Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg (Oper Kiel); and Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, and Ferrando Così fan tutte (Ministry of Operatic Affairs; Dorset Opera Festival); and Gernando L’isola disabitata (Nederlandse Reisopera).
On the concert platform Peter has performed St. Matthew Passion (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra); H.W. Henze’s Kammermusik 1958 (NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg); Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra); Carl Orff’s Catulli Carmina (Warsaw Philharmonic); Vigilia by Rautavaara (Netherlands Radio Choir); Liberto L’incoronazione di Poppea (BBC Proms/Royal Albert Hall); Strozzi Caterina Cornaro (Concertgebouw ZaterdagMatinee); and performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra; Nederlands Kamerorkest; and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed solo recitals at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and De Doelen, Rotterdam; and has also recorded multiple CDs with the Belgian label Phaedra.
Gijsbertsen has worked with many leading international conductors and directors including Sir Mark Elder, Sir Andrew Davis, Vladimir Jurowksi, Sir David McVicar, Emmanuel Haïm, Katie Mitchell, Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Kent, Robert Carsen, Jonathan Cohen, David Parry, and Edo de Waart.