Reader Submission: Peter Brathwaite

Peter Brathwaite (Photos by Gabriel Hennigson & Emilie Lauwers)

We're continuing our series of barihunks suggested by readers with British baritone Peter Brathwaite. Brathwaite recently graduated from the Royal College of Music International Opera School where he appeared in performances as Papageno in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte," Nardo in Mozart's "La Finta Giardiniera" and Demetrius in Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

He made his French operatic debut in 2008 at the Opéra National de Lyon singing the role of Nelson in in Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess." He reprised the role a year later at the Opéra de Lyon and at the Edinburgh International Festival.

He is the winner of the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Award at the Black British Classical Foundation, Voice of Black Opera Competition, a Peter Moores Foundation Major Award holder,  Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme Alumna, Winston Churchill Fellow and winner of the RCM Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Stach Lieder Prize. 

His career has now taken him to Belgium where he will perform a concert of operatic scenes at the Vlaamse Opera on May 26th. In June, he heads to the Netherlands to perform Marcello in Puccini's "La Boheme" with the Nationale Reisoper RAP. [Note: Please check schedules. We took this information from Brathwaite's website. The Marcello on the Reisoper website is Thomas Oliemans, who happens to be our next reader submission.]

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British Barihunk Rodney Clark as Billy Budd

British Barihunk Rodney Clarke

In a previous post we inadvertently stated that Rodney Clarke was Jamaican. He was actually born in London to Jamaican parents. We figured that setting the record straight was a great excuse to post this video of him performing Billy Budd's "Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray" with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. 

Clarke will be performing the role of Guglielmo Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte at the Longborough Festival. He will then head to Valladolid, Spain to portray the Grand Pretre in Saint Saens’ Samson et Dalilahwith the Opera Proyect. In April, he heads to the warmer climes of Italy where he will portray Pasha Selim in Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, directed by Graham Vick

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