Peter Kálmán is one of today’s most dynamic bass-baritones, and performs in a wide repertory at many international opera houses. He is celebrated both for his engaging character portrayals of Italian buffo parts, and for his interpretations of dramatic roles in works by Bartók, Strauss and Wagner.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season have included Scarpia (Tosca), the four villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Klingsor (Parsifal) at the Hungarian State Opera in his home city of Budapest, where he also sang Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen under Adam Fischer. He has appeared under Gianluca Capuano and alongside Cecilia Bartoli – with whom he regularly collaborates – as Melisso (Alcina) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and as Publio (La clemenza di Tito) in a European tour with Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco.
In the 2021/22 season Peter Kálmán made his debut at La Monnaie in Brussels as Michele and Gianni Schicchi in Tobias Kratzer’s new production of Puccini’s Il trittico under the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu, and at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bartolo in a revival of Michael Grandage’s production of Le nozze di Figaro. He also performed the title role of Don Giovanni at Müpa Budapest.
Future engagements will include Bartolo in a new production at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola) at the Semperoper Dresden and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Peter Kálmán made his Salzburg Festival debut at the 2012 Whitsun Festival as Curio (Giulio Cesare). Since then, he has returned as Boland (Fierrabras), Elmiro in Rossini’s Otello, Cadmus / Somnus in Handel’s Semele and Mustafà (L’italiana in Algeri).
