Peter Clark, baritone, a New York native, has appeared in opera, musical theater and concert here and abroad. Most recently he performed the roles of Top in Copland's The Tender Land, Marco in Gianni Schicchi with Chelsea Opera, Pylades in Iph.then with Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Bear in Melissa Schiflett's My Undying Love and Jehova in Mark Blitzstein's Cain.
More recently he played Guglielmo in Così fan tutte Hanhsel and Gretel with New York Opera Projects, Tarnitz in Student Prince with Liederkranz Opera, Caleb in Flagello's The Sisters with Hunter College Opera and the Bishop in Stephen Paulus's The Three Hermits. He also performed the roles of the Patron in the Delaira/Yankowitz opera Chéri at the Actor's Studio and Can Grande/Ezzelin in the world première of Egon Lustgarten's opera Dante im Exil at the summer festival of Elysium: Between Two Continents in Bernried, Germany. That summer Mr. Clark also appeared as Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun at Ashlawn Opera.
This spring he performed Silvio in Bronx Opera's Pagliacci and this summer he will portray Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at Ashlawn Opera. Upcoming later is the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance with Skylight Opera.
Mr. Clark has also been seen with Elysium at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma as Edwin in the European première of Krenek's chamber opera What Price Confidence? and in concert at Carnegie's Weill Hall. In recent seasons he has created roles in two American operas: Herr Bauer in Shifflett/Garret's opera Dora with the American Chamber Opera and Iachimo in Christopher Berg's Cymbeline.
Mr. Clark has performed the role of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Will Crutchfield at Caramoor Opera as well as the Herald in Verdi's Otello. With New York Opera Project he has sung Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Peter in Hansel and Gretel and the title role in Don Giovanni. Other more recent operatic engagements have been Marcello in La Bohème with Opera in the Hamptons, Schaunard in La Bohème on tour with American Opera Company, Peter in Hansel and Gretel with Hudson Opera Theater, Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore; and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Downtown Symphony, the title role of Don Giovanni with One World Symphony and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with Regina Opera. In addition he has performed the title role in Kopit/Yeston's Phantom with the New Bedford Festival Theater and all the villains in the Greenhut/Skipotares opera A Harlot's Progress at the Fin de Siècle Festival in Nantes, France.
Mr. Clark commands a large repertory of songs and appears frequently in recital with composer/pianist Christopher Berg. Together, they gave the first performance anywhere of Trois Poèmes de Gulistan de Saadhi by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji as part of the Santa Fe Collaborations Series. He also appeared recently at the 92nd Street Y in New York City singing music of Melissa Shiflett in the Meet the Virtuoso series. He performs regularly with choral societies and has sung Carmina Burana, the Requiems of Brahms, Fauré and Duruflé and most recently Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs. with the Brooklyn Heights Symphony Orchestra. For the Mahler Society he has performed Des Knaben Wunderhorn as well as the Kindertotenlieder. He has also sung Schumann's Dichterliebe and is performing Schubert's Winterreise at several venues this season. Peter is a graduate, summa cum laude of Amherst College and teaches voice on the music faculty of Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights.
