Peter Berger

Peter Berger studied voice at the conservatory in Košice, and subsequently frequented master classes with Peter Dvorský and Eva Blahová. While still a student, he became a soloist of the Košice State Theatre opera. In 2007 he won first prize in the competition of the Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust in London. His other awards include the Literary Fund Prize for his creation of the Prince in Dvořák’s Rusalka. His repertoire comprises the Donizetti opera roles of Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Don Ottavio (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Verdi’s Alfredo (La traviata), Macduff (Macbeth) and Ismael (Nabucco), Faust (Gounod’s Faust), Lensky (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), the Prince (Rusalka), Vašek (Smetana’s The Bartered Bride), Michel (Martinů’s Juliette), and others. In October 2007 he made a successful debut at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, as Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. In 2008 he guest appeared at the National Theatre in Split, Croatia, in the roles of Faust and Nemorino; in 2009 appeared at the National Theatre in Prague, as the Prince (Rusalka); and on the same stage, he created Nemorino in a new production of L’elisir d’amore, in the 2010/2011 season. He works regularly with the Košice State Philharmonic and the Slovak Philharmonic, and is a guest artist of the State Opera in Bánská Bystrica. He is also active as an oratorio singer. He made his debut at the Prague State Opera on March 6, 2009, as the Prince in Rusalka, an occasion which marked the beginning of a string of further guest appearances (as Alfredo, Pinkerton and Rodolfo in La bohème). Since 2011/2012 season he has been soloist of the Prague State Opera.