Peter Kellner was born in Slovakia. Since the 2018/19 season he is a member of Vienna State Opera, where future and recent projects include Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Zuniga (Carmen), Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), King of Scotland (Ariodante) and Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos). Other recent engagements include Colline (La bohème) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Alcandro (L’Olimpiade) at Theater an der Wien, a recital at the Wigmore Hall, his Salzburg Festival debut in Salome, Lieutenant Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) for the Royal Opera House in London, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) for Vienna Volksoper and Colline and Figaro in Graz. In 2017 Peter Kellner was awarded the Wigmore Hall / Inde-pendent Opera Fellowship and Second Prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. He has also won the second prize and the audience prize at the 2018 International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and the first prize at the International Ferruccio Tagliavini Singing Competition in Deutschlandsberg.
Prior to joining Vienna State Opera Peter Kellner was a soloist with Oper Graz, where his roles included Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail). Past appearances elsewhere have included Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) for Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette) and Don Esteban (Der Zwerg) at Oper Graz, Masetto (Don Giovanni) for the Slovak National Theatre, Speaker (Die Zauberflöte) at Theater Klagenfurt, and his debuts at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival (2016) and at Mozartfest Würzburg (2017). In 2016 he made his Glyndebourne Festival debut as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro).
Peter Kellner has performed with internationally renowned orchestras including Camerata Salzburg, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic, under conductors including Jonathan Cohen, Marco Comin, Theodor Guschlbauer, Friedrich Haider, Jörg Halubek, Dirk Kaftan, Sir Antonio Pappano and Vasily Petrenko. Peter Kellner studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the Graz University of the Arts. He has also attended masterclasses with Thomas Hampson, Brigitte Fassbaender and Helmut Deutsch. In 2013 he took part in the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, appearing in Don Carlo and as Osmin in a production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail for children.
