Performance Year: 2024, 2025
Peter Barber is an American bass-baritone and recent graduate of the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts. Now, he finds himself in the Marion Roose Pullin Studio at Arizona Opera, where he covered Alfonse and De Lacey in the world premiere of Frankenstein by Gregg Kallor and performed Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Count Capulet in Romeo and Juliette, and Masetto in Don Giovanni during the 2023-2024 season. Peter was an Encouragement Award Winner in the Western Region Finals of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
During his time at AVA, Peter performed numerous roles, including the title role in Don Giovanni, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin. In January of 2020, he made his professional debut with Pacific Opera Project, performing Amantio in POP’s double-bill production of Gianni Schicchi and L’enfant et les Sortilèges. Some of his other role highlights include Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Stobrod/Blindman in Cold Mountain, Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and Colline in La Bohème.
Outside of the opera world, Barber has grown a substantial audience on YouTube, surpassing 80,000 subscribers via videos with in-depth musical analysis of contemporary music, as well as creating non-operatic musical covers. He is also one of the founding members of a musical group called The Bass Gang (Bobby Bass, Peter Barber, Tomi P, and Marwan Ayman), which was formed during the pandemic, and consists of four bass singers that collaborate virtually from all over the world. The Bass Gang released their first EP in May of 2021 (May the Bass Be With You, Vol. 1), and released their second EP in May of 2022 (May the Bass Be With You, Vol. 2), collaborating with some of the most exciting singers in the virtual landscape. So far, The Bass Gang has amassed over 2 million views/streams between YouTube and Spotify alone.
