reviews – Peter Auty

Manon Lescaut Opera Holland Park 2019

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Manon) has a gloriously rich and full tone, and Peter Auty matches her with a fiery upper register.

Peter Auty’s tenorial tumescence makes Des Grieux suitably ardent.

Peter Auty’s plangent tenor is the nearest an English singer will get to Des Grieux’s impassioned effusions.

Auty was able to bring plenty of robustly phrased, Italianate tone, making Des Grieux a real pleasure to listen to.

Howard Blake: Benedictus St. Alban’s International Organ Festival 2019

The highlight here was a tenor solo, sung with passion by Peter Auty. He brought the whole work majestically to life.

Onegin Scottish Opera 2018

Peter Auty makes a plangent Lensky, delivering his aria full-throttle.

Peter Auty’s Lensky is convincingly sincere.

Peter Auty brings back some of Pushkin’s irony to the poet Lensky,and his relationship to Onegin is well explored, from their first arrival to Lensky’s death in the duel scene.

Peter Auty is a touching Lensky, whose ardent honesty is an obvious mismatch with ….wild Olga.

Peter auty gives a magnetic depth to the character of her fiancé Lensky. From his bright and lively entrance in act I to his hot-headed jealousy in Act II, Auty portrays Lensky’s ardent passions with vocal magnitude and a captivating stage presence. His brooding duet as he contemplates his and Onegin’s upcoming duel is rich and heartfelt.

Peter Auty’s jealous Lensky delivered his heartfelt aria thrillingly.

I Pagliacci 2017 Opera North

With an all-round excellent cast , Peter Auty’s Canio stood out, dramatically frightening and with his voice on its best form… Jon Vickers set the standard here, but Auty can be ranked alongside him.

…confident commitment of the performances led by Peter Auty’s troubled Canio.

Peter Auty plays Canio with focussed, obsessive intensity, his timbre equal to the demands of Leoncavallo’s fin-de-siecle lushness.

Auty gives a great performance, singing with subtlety yet formidably conveying Canio’s psychological disintegration.

…his robust tenor stirringly renders the breast-beating of Vesti la giubb.

Norma – English National Opera 2016

The solitary Brit, Peter Auty as the love rat Pollione, turns in another exceptional performance.

The British tenor Peter Auty transmitted the flaccidity of character for Pollione, with a skillful use of his powerful voice.

British tenor Peter Auty more than held his own as the Roman Pollione.

Peter Auty doesn’t disappoint in the bravura tenor role of Poliione.

Auty sang Pollione nobly and strongly.

As the disreputable Pollione himself, Peter Auty was commanding of tone.

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‘Peter Auty ( the sole Brit of the quartet ) navigated his horribly difficult aria admirably.

A tireless Pollione.

Compelling performance.

Peter Auty combines tenor penetration with baritonal warmth.

British tenor Peter Auty, much experienced in the bel canto world, set the ball rolling impressively with the opera’s first solo number, producing an open, attractive sound.

Peter Auty is in ringing form as Pollione.

Peter Auty, strong and attractive of voice.

Onegin – Malmo 2015/16

Peter Auty performs a brilliant Lenski. His lyric and ardent voice suits the role excellently and he sings Lenski’s aria very passionately.

Swedish Opera Magazine

Peter Auty plays Lenski easily and effortlessly.

‘Peter Auty gives an earnest expression of the desperate lovescreams of Lenski.

The elegant tenor voice and the solid stage presence of Peter Auty creates a memorable Lenski.

Extraordinary- I will always remember how Peter Auty created the staging before the duel when he sings ‘’Kuda, kuda’ and his acting during the birthday party.

Mogens H Andersson

Aida – Opera Holland Park 2015

Peter Auty sang a fervent and confident Radames, producing some notably eloquent singing in his death throes.

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Auty makes a terrific Radames, sensitively characterised and heroically sung.

Peter Auty is on top form as the Egyptian general Radames, singing with a genuinely heroic ring to his tone.

Girl of the Golden West – English national Opera 2014

Peter Auty excels himself, acting with such energy, and his vibrant tenor finds a grand sweep for Ch’ella mi creda, one of Puccini’s most seductive inspirations.

Peter Auty and Craig Colclough gave fine performances as Dick Johnson and Jack Rance, acting with all the swagger one expects of proper cowboys.

As Johnson, Auty summoned up a strong and melodic voice which beautifully captured Puccini’s phrasing and line. It was one of those tenor performances where I was constantly happy to listen to the voice, accompanied by decent characterisation of the bandit transformed by love.

Peter Auty was in fine voice and every inch the Western hero, lock, stock and top notes.

Tenor Peter Auty grew in confidence and conviction in his debut as Dick Johnson, with some thrilling top notes and an air of untrustworthy charm.

British tenor Peter Auty, a joy to the ear, debuts in the role of the bandit Dick Johnson. Beautiful coloratura that enchants the audience as soon as he starts singing. A true virtuoso.

Tenor Peter Auty was on impressive form, the middle of this singer’s voice the fullest and most attractive I’ve heard it. Swinging into some passionate top notes and acting with a raunchy physicality.

Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci – Opera Holland Park 2013

Peter Auty, who, in one of his finest performances to date, sings the tenor lead in both works. He’s on fantastic form. His haunting Turiddu is an unthinking sensualist whose first glimmers of moral awareness come with the realisation that his life is about to be cut short. As Canio, he implodes with disturbing veracity as his world, and with it his grip on reality, collapses round him.