The Slovak bass Peter Kellner has made a name for himself at internationally renowned opera houses. Along with his return to the Salzburg Festival in Il viaggio a Reims, his 2025/26 engagements include the role of Kecal in a new production of The Bartered Bride and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) at the Vienna State Opera, King of Scotland (Ariodante) at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, his role debut as Daland (Der fliegende Holländer) in Rouen, Colline (La bohème) and Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette) at the Semperoper Dresden and Vodník (Rusalka) at the Prague National Theatre.
Highlights of Peter Kellner’s recent seasons have included Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, his role debut as Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Dresden, Figaro, Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Guglielmo in Barrie Kosky’s productions of Mozart’s Da Ponte operas at the Vienna State Opera, where he has also appeared as Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream under Simone Young) and King of Scotland, Colline and Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at Covent Garden, Colline in his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Figaro and Masetto (Don Giovanni) at the Berlin State Opera and his role debuts as Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) in Hamburg and as Vodník at the Prague National Theatre.
Peter Kellner made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2013 as a participant in the Young Singers Project, appearing in Don Carlo and in children’s productions of Die Entführung aus dem Serail and La Cenerentola. He most recently appeared in Salzburg as Orest’s Tutor (Elektra) and on the concert platform as Brander (La Damnation de Faust) and in a Mozart matinee. His recent concert engagements have also included Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Jaap van Zweden in Paris and Mozart’s Requiem with the Concentus Musicus Wien under Tomáš Netopil in Prague.
Peter Kellner made his debuts at the Vienna State Opera as Panthée (Les Troyens), at Covent Garden as Lieutenant Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) and at the Vienna Volksoper and the Glyndebourne Festival as Mozart’s Figaro.
He has worked with many leading conductors and orchestras, including Antonio Pappano, Vasily Petrenko, Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Marco Armiliato, Ivor Bolton and Friedrich Haider, the Vienna Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony and the Košice State Philharmonic.
