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Biography

Peter Sonn was born in Salzburg and graduated with honours from the Mozarteum University of Music and Performing Arts in his hometown. While still a student, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

During his permanent engagements at the Landestheater Coburg, the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, he developed numerous central roles: Belmonte/The Abduction from the Seraglio, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Ferrando/Così fan tutte, Tamino/The Magic Flute, Lorenzo/Fra Diavolo, Marquis von Chateauneuf/Tsar and Carpenter, Steersman/The Flying Dutchman, Lenski/Eugene Onegin, Nemorino/L'elisir d'amore, Alfredo/La traviata, Arnim/Simplicius and Camille/The Merry Widow. In Coburg, he was awarded a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association. His first guest engagements took him to Turin and Catania. Peter Sonn appeared as a guest at the Salzburg Festival in 2006 (Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots – released on DVD by DG), 2008 (Die Zauberflöte) and 2011 as Jüngling (Die Frau ohne Schatten – DVD production by Opus Arte).

From 2009 to 2012, Peter Sonn was a member of the Zurich Opera ensemble, where he expanded his repertoire to include the roles of Henry Morosus/Die schweigsame Frau, David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Vladimir Igorjevitsch/Prince Igor, Italian Singer/Der Rosenkavalier and Narraboth/Salome.

Mozart's Tamino accompanied him throughout his career; Peter Sonn made his debut in this role in 2010 at the Frankfurt Opera, in 2011 at the Hamburg State Opera and in 2012 at the Komische Oper Berlin (premiere of the new production directed by Barry Kosky). He made his debut at La Scala in Milan in 2012 as the Young Man/Die Frau ohne Schatten. In 2011, he made his debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra as David, followed by his first Walther von der Vogelweide/Tannhäuser in 2012 – both recorded on CD for PentaTone. In 2012-2013, engagements took him to Hamburg, Berlin and Chicago, before he appeared as David at the Salzburg Festival in 2013. In 2014, he made his debut at the Berlin State Opera as Walther von der Vogelweide in a new production of Tannhäuser. In 2015, he made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera and the Theater in Vienna. Peter Sonn also sings the major roles in his repertoire at the Semperoper in Dresden and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Peter Sonn's concert repertoire includes sacred works such as Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Mass in C major, Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Bruckner's Mass in F minor and Britten's Serenade for Tenor and Horn, as well as songs by Beethoven, Bellini, Bononcini, Donizetti, Mozart, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky.

He works regularly with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Franz Welser-Möst, Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti, Adam Fischer, Daniel Harding, Sebastian Weigle, Marc Albrecht, Bernard Haitink, Christoph von Dohnányi, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Michael Gielen, Marek Janowski, Philippe Jordan, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Schneider, Jeffrey Tate and Stefan Soltesz, as well as under the direction of Sven-Eric Bechtolf, John Dew, Claus Guth, Karl Ernst & Ursel Herrmann, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Barrie Kosky, Harry Kupfer, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier, Christof Loy and David Pountney.

He appeared on DVD as David at the Salzburg Festival and Walther von der Vogelweide at the Berlin State Opera.

His engagements in recent seasons include the title role in Samson and Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos at the German National Theatre in Weimar, and Max/Freischütz at the Leipzig Opera. Peter Sonn later made his debut as Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer in Weimar and as Siegmund in Die Walküre in Saarbrücken, where he also took on the title role in Hoffmanns Erzählungen. In the concert field, he has performed in Bruckner's Mass in F minor in Breslau, in Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and in a WDR recording as one of the soloists at the New Year's Concert of the German Radio Philharmonic in Mainz.

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Artist Website

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Management

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Artist Manager

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News

Wälse-calls in Saarbrücken

Right at the beginning of the year, the tenor from Salzburg will take on another important Wagner role, this time in a staged performance.
From 11 February, Peter Sonn can be seen in his premiere as Siegmund in "Die Walküre" at the Saarländisches Staatstheater under the musical direction of Sébastien Rouland and staging by Alexandra Szmerédy and Magnolda Pardikta.
Other important Wagner parts for the tenor were in "Lohengrin" in Darmstadt, as well as in "Der Fliegende Holländer" in various productions, including as Erik at the Staatstheater Weimar.

Further information about the production, the dates and the cast:
www.Staatstheater-Saarland.de

New signing from Salzburg!

Born, raised and trained at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Peter Sonn started an outstanding career in the lyric tenor repertoire which led him from Zurich, Hamburg, Milan, Vienna and Berlin to many other musical capitals all over the world. Meanwhile he has expanded his repertoire from Rodolfo, Max or Don José to Lohengrin and we are pleased to be an active part in this new adventure!