Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano

Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was born in Lucerne and completed his studies at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Munich. In 2012 he won both first prize and the audience prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and made his highly acclaimed recital debut at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. He has since appeared as a regular guest at the festival and in leading concert halls and opera houses internationally such as Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Brucknerhaus Linz, HET Concertgebouw, at the Canadian Opera Company, Bavarian State Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Real in Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Zurich Opera House and the Salzburg Festival.
Highlights of the previous seasons were his role debuts at the Musikverein für Steiermark as Eisenstein in a semi-staged version of Strauss' Fledermaus and his first Loge with Concerto Köln in a concert performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold conducted by Kent Nagano. He also sang Mendelssohn's ‘Lobgesangs-Symphonie’ with the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra conducted by Trevor Pinnock in Tokyo and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marie Jacquot at the Vienna Musikverein and made his debut with Verdi's Requiem in Lucerne.

In the 2024-2025 season, Mauro Peter performed Mahler's Das Lied der Erde for the first time. Other highlights included New Year's Eve concerts at the Berlin State Opera under the baton of Christian Thielemann, two operetta concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst at the Musikverein Vienna and Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw and Gewandhaus Leipzig. On the opera stage, he made his role debuts as Max in Weber's Der Freischütz at the Bregenz Festival and as the Prince in Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges at the Semperoper Dresden. At Kioi Hall Tokyo, he appeared in a semi-staged version of Mozart's Così fan tutte under the musical direction of Trevor Pinnock and at his home theatre in Zurich with the tenor part in a staged version of Mendelssohn's Elijah.

Highlights of the coming season include his return as Max at the Bregenz Festival and his staged role debut as Loge in Das Rheingold at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Marc Albrecht. He also sings Zender's Winterreise in the ballet version by Christian Spuck at the Berlin State Opera. Mauro Peter will be touring as Tamino in a semi-staged version of Mozart's Magic Flute with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the direction of Tarmo Peltokoski and will also perform this role at the festival in Aix-en-Provence. On the concert platform, Mauro Peter can be heard in Haydn's The Creation at the Musikverein für Steiermark and the Palace of Arts in Budapest - both times under the direction of Adam Fischer. He will also sing Haydn's Nelson Mass with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein and Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Bergen Philharmonic in Bergen.
Mauro Peter is particularly devoted to the Lied repertoire, having appeared in varied recital programmes at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, Cologne Philharmonie, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Verbier Festival, Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival. Last season, she gave an acclaimed recital with Die schöne Müllerin at the Tōkyō Bunka Kaikan and, together with Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton, celebrated great success with Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch at London's Wigmore Hall and Vienna's Musikverein. They will perform this work again in Amsterdam in March 2026.
Following a recording of Die schöne Müllerin live from Wigmore Hall, he went on to release a debut album for Sony Classical in 2015, featuring some of Schubert’s Goethe settings, and a recording of Dichterliebe and a selection of other Schumann lieder in 2016.

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