​LAWRENCE
OLSWORTH
-PETER
Tenor/haute-contre Lawrence Olsworth-Peter trained at the Royal Academy of Music and the Accademia Rossiniana, Pesaro. He is in increasingly in demand as a rare high tenor particularly known for his detailed, versatile acting.
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Lawrence made his international operatic debut in 2010 at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival debut as Don Luigino in Il Viaggio a Reims under the direction of the late Alberto Zedda. Recent engagements have included: Sailor/Dido & Aeneas for ENO, Pane/la Calisto for Opéra National du Rhin with les talens lyriques, Acis/Acis & Galatea at the Gohliser Schlosschen Leipzig, Achante in the modern-era premiere of Rameau's Achante et Cephise for UCOpera, Orphee/Orphee et Eurydice for Opera in the City and Almaviva/il barbiere di Siviglia for various UK touring companies including Surrey Opera, and OperaUpClose.
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‘Lawrence Olsworth-Peter,
the Achante, deployed his lyric tenor in gracefully shaped phrases.’
OPERA Magazine
Other notable roles have included: Don Ramiro/ La Cenerentola for OperaUpClose, Tonio/ La fille du regiment for Diva Opera, Nemorino/L'elisir d'amore OperaUpClose, and the title role in J.C Bach's Amadis de Gaule for UCOpera.
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He has performed at many major international festivals including Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Beaune, Dijon and Vézère.
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Character roles have included Don Basilio & Curzio/The Marriage of Figaro for Merry Opera, Monostatos/The Magic Flute for OperaUpClose, Tybalt/Romeo et Juliette for Grange Park Opera (cover) and Nathanael & Spalanzani/The Tales of Hoffmann for Grimeborn Opera Festival.
Lawrence was a finalist of the Les Azuriales Young Artist Competition in Nice and has appeared as a soloist live on BBC 3 In Tune with Sean Rafferty.
Prior to his operatic career Lawrence also achieved gold medal LAMDA in acting (hons) instructed by the late Christine Way. Acting roles have included Elyot/ Private Lives, Simon/ Hay Fever (Bristol Old Vic basement), Brendan/ The Weir, Leontes/ The Winter’s Tale, Marlow/ She Stoops to Conquer.
As a Theology graduate from Bristol University, Lawrence has a keen interest in Oratorio, regularly performing core sacred works including Haydn/ Creation, Mendelssohn/ Elijah, Monteverdi/ Vespers and Bach Passions.
He is also a translator of scores into new English translations, including Bach's St John Passion, which premiered in 2018.
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