Peter Barrett

A recipient of the Ian Rosenblatt Bursary at the Wexford Festival in Ireland and a top prizewinner at the Montreal International Music Competition, Newfoundland and Labrador baritone Peter Barrett is one of Canada’s most important and acclaimed artists on the opera and concert stage. In the current season, Barrett will cover Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette and Morales in Carmen at the Met, and he will sing Wolseley in Louis Riel at the Canadian Opera Company, Mozart’s Requiem with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and Emile De Becque in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific with the Calgary Opera.

Barrett recently joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, where he made his debut in the role of Malatesta in Don Pasquale opposite Anna Netrebko and covered the role of Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. He also returned to the Canadian Opera Company as Morales in Carmen. An alumnus of the Ensemble Studio of the Canadian Opera Company, Barrett has appeared with the COC in many roles, including Dr. Falke, Marcello in La boheme, Denisov/Rayevsky in War and Peace, Ned Keene in Peter Grimes, the Mandarin in Turandot, Marullo in Rigoletto, Dancaïro in Carmen, Ping in Turandot, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, and in Janacek’s From the House of the Dead. He has also appeared throughout the country with Vancouver Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa and Opera Hamilton, among others.