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| Who We Are |
Peter Tuff: Baritone Peter Tuff has been hailed
as “an outstanding singer” (Salzburger Nachrichten),
“impressive…strong and commanding” (San Francisco
Examiner) and “the ideal romantic hero in voice and
appearance” (Reno Gazette). He grew up in Salinas,
California, and studied both voice and French horn at
Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
That was followed by ten years of private study in
San Francisco with the late Dickson Titus.
He performed often with opera companies and
orchestras on the West coast before moving to Vienna,
Austria. There, Peter was a member of the Vienna
State Opera for six seasons, working with conductors
Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado,
Sir George Solti, Carlos Kleiber, Kent Nagano, Zubin Mehta, and many others. His
many Salzburg Festival performances include Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and
in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier.
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Peter has sung over 150 leading & supporting roles, including Marcello, Falke, Danilo, Valentin, Dandini, Silvio, Lescaut, Escamillo, Sharpless, Ford, the Count and others. His performance as Hans Scholl in Weisse Rose by Udo Zimmermann was praised highly by the Austrian press. While in Vienna he was a regular soloist in the Imperial Chapel with the Vienna Choirboys & members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
His performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic met with critical acclaim from the local press: “rich, articulate” and “exquisite, full of passion.” Peter recently performed Carmina Burana with both the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra in Berkeley, as well as with UC Santa Cruz. He was featured in January with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, singing both sets of Copland’s Old American Songs.
Recent appearances with Opera Theatre of the Rockies in Colorado Springs include leading roles in Carmen, La Bohème, La Cenerentola and La Fille du Régiment. Peter will appear in Pac Rep Theatre’s Carmel Follies this summer in Carmel, CA.
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