Biography
Peter Snipp
I was born in London now live in Orpington, Kent.
I trained as an Opera Singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
I have appeared as a soloist with Opera Factory, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, National Opera de Paris, Antwerp Opera and New Israeli Opera.
My principal Opera roles have included
Masetto 'Don Giovanni' with Opera North and New Israeli Opera.
I created the title role in a joint National Youth Music Theatre and Royal Opera House Covent Garden’s production of Douglas Young's 'The Taylor of Gloucester'
I created the title role in Judith Weir’s 'The Vanishing Bridegroom for Scottish Opera (also seen in London and BBC Television).
The title role in Eugene Onegin for Kentish Opera,
Osmin in Mozart's 'Zaide'
Borilee in 'Les Boreades' for The City of Birmingham Touring Opera.
The English Clerk in 'Death in Venice' for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Malatesta in 'Don Pasquale' for English National Opera.
Fiorello 'The Barber of Seville', also for Chandos Records, also for English National Opera.
Maximilian in Berstein's 'Candide'' Batignano Festival, Italy.
The title role in Tchaikovsky's 'Mazeppa' for University College Opera.
In 1994 I joined English National Opera as a principal artist where my roles included
Harlequin 'Ariadne auf Naxos'
Guglielmo 'Cosi fan Tutte',
Marullo 'Rigoletto'
Papageno 'Magic Flute'
Figaro 'Le Nozze di Figaro'
Henry 'The fairy Queen'.
Flemish Opera debut in Antwerp with Patroclus in 'King Priam'
Opera National de Paris debut at the Bastille with Marullo in Verdi's, 'Rigoletto'
Young Vic's Production of Jonathan Dove's 'Tobias and The Angel'
Music Theatre
Music Theatre work has included a recording of ‘Man of La Mancha’ and performances of
Sondheim’s ‘A Little Night Music’ at the Leicester Haymarket.
‘Show Boat’ at the Albert Hall,
Scrooge in Scroogical Panto December 2016
Session Work
As a session singer he has recorded with
Dave Brubeck,
Paul McCartney
Susan Boyle
Bryn Terfel
Lesley Garrett
Faryl Smith
Nightwish (A fantastic Rock band from Finland)
2012 Olympic closing ceremony recording
Adele backing track for Skyfall 2017 tour
Various Video game scores
Dubai Para Olympics 2019 Music
Andrei Bocelli new Album ‘Si’
Coldplay
Nightwish Human Nature album
Coldplay Everyday Life Album
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man Album
Sam Smith 2022
Film Scores have included
Pirates of the Caribbean (On Stranger Tides)
Star Wars parts 2 and 3
The Lord of The Rings trilogy
The ‘Harry Potter’ Films
Alice in Wonderland
How to Train your Dragon
A Christmas Carol
Green Latern
Kung Fu Panda 2
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
The Passion
Angels & Demons
Iron Man 2
Hellboy 2
Dark Shadows
Captain America
Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen
Madagasgar 3
Monsters Vs Aliens
Snow White and The Huntsman
Life of Pi
The Hobbit
The Croods
The Great Gatsby
Turbo
The Monk
The Mortal Instruments
Mr Peabody and Sherman
Play station game Galahad
Guardians Of The Galaxy
The Book Of Life
Kung Fu Panda 3
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Pirates of The Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales
The Conjuring 2
Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest
The Nutcracker
Jurassic World The Fallen Kingdom
Hotel Transylvania 3
Mission Impossible 6 Fallout
Mary Poppins Returns
Aquaman
Aladin
Dumbo
Dora The Explorer
The Voyage of Dr Doolittle
Wonderwoman 1985
Abomnible
Tolkein
Trolls World Tour
Cats
The King’s Man
The One and Only Ivan
Blue Bayou
No Time to Die
Beast
Pinnochio
The Barbie Movie 2023
Spy Kids Armageddon 2023
Dune 2 2023
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
TV work
C4 Ensemble in Opera Factory’s production of ‘Don Giovanni’
BBC Title Role in Judith Weir’s Opera ‘The Vanishing Bridgegroom’
ITV’s Good Morning. As an Opera singer singing Soap Opera scripts
Sky Arts Appeared with Sandi Toksvig and Ronnie Corbett in The Southbank Centre’s production of ‘Sandi’s Christmas Cracker”
Radio
Art Sutter show Edinburgh Festival with the company of Annie
BBC Radio 3 'Singers' Memories' a program about the ability to remember songs, especially under pressure.
