Peter Robinson was born in the North-East of England and studied music at Oxford‚ where he was Organ Scholar of St. John’s College. He began his operatic career as Chorus Master at Glyndebourne‚ followed by several years as Resident Conductor and Head of Music Staff for the Australian Opera at the Sydney Opera House. He then joined ENO as Assistant Music Director‚ where his repertoire includes The Mastersingers of Nuremburg‚ Otello‚ Rigoletto‚ Carmen‚ Orfeo‚ Hansel & Gretel‚ The Turn of the Screw‚ and all the major Mozart operas.
He is invited back to Australia regularly as guest conductor for all the major opera companies and symphony orchestras and recent performances have included Cosi fan tutte‚ Romeo & Juliette and Lucia di Lammermoor. He has also appeared in Canada‚ Mexico‚ Hong Kong and Italy and conducted for Scottish Opera‚ Kent Opera and Opera Factory London. For television he has conducted Jonathan Miller’s productions of The Mikado and Cosi fan tutte and‚ for Channel 4‚ The Marriage of Figaro.
In the concert hall‚ he has conducted most of the major British orchestras‚ including the LSO‚ LPO‚ RPO‚ Hallé and BBC Philharmonic‚ and appears regularly in concerts and broadcasts with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
During a long collaboration with Raymond Gubbay and David Freeman‚ Peter Robinson conducted Madam Butterfly‚ Tosca‚ Aida and Carmen at the Royal Albert Hall. In recent seasons he has appeared in concert with the Queensland‚ Royal Philharmonic‚ BBC Concert and Northern Sinfonia Orchestras. Most recent engagements include The Marriage of Figaro for West Australian Opera‚ Madam Butterfly‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Andrea Chenier‚ La bohéme‚ Turandot and La Traviata with Opera Queensland‚ Die Zauberflöte with Opera Zuid in Holland‚Falstaff at Scottish Opera‚ La Gioconda‚ Un Ballo in Maschera‚ L’amore dei tre re‚ Rigoletto‚ Fidelio‚ Luisa Miller and Andrea Chénier with Opera Holland Park‚ and Madam Butterfly and Carmen Royal Albert Hall. Recent and forthcoming engagements include Aida at Opera Queensland‚ Mikado at ENO‚ and Fidelio and La Wally at Opera Holland Park.
He teaches and coaches singers regularly at the National Opera Studio‚ and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama‚ and is the Artistic Director of British Youth Opera with which company he has conducted recent productions of Albert Herring‚ Eugene Onegin‚ Roméo et Juliette‚ The Magic Flute‚ The Rape of Lucretia and The Rake’s Progress.
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