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Biography

Slovak bass/bass-baritone Peter Kellner makes his debut at the National Theatre Opera in Prague during the concert Smetana Gala on 2nd March 2024. A few days later Peter will make his debut as Water Sprite in a new production of Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák.

The young Slovak bass/bass-baritone Peter Kellner joined the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera in the 2018/19 season. In the 2022/23 season he returned to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London as Papageno and made his MET debut as Colline. At his parent company in Vienna he can be seen as Masetto in the new production of Don Giovanni (conductor: Philippe Jordan), as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro and as Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Recent highlights have been Colline in London, Theseus in Midsummeright’s Dream under the baton of Simone Young, Il re di Scozia in Ariodante and Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera and Brander in La Damnation de Faust at the Salzburg Festival. In addition, Peter Kellner gave concerts in Seville, Prague, Krasnoyarsk and Mallorca.
In recent years, Mr. Kellner has made several house debuts, including at the Vienna State Opera as Panthée in Berlioz’ Les Troyens, at London’s Royal Opera House as Ratcliffe (Billy Budd), as well as at the Glyndebourne Festival and the Volksoper Wien as Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro). He also debuted as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla and at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. Further debuts include Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the title role in Händel’s Hercules at Staatstheater Oldenburg, Colas (Bastien und Bastienne) at the Macao Opera Festival, Le Gouverneur (Le Comte Ory) at the Klosterneuburg Festival, Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore) at the Staatstheater Banská Bystrica and Sciarrone and Carceriere (Tosca) with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He sang his first Colline (La Bohème) and Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. In 2013 Mr. Kellner performed as Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail für Kinder and in Verdi’s Don Carlo conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Salzburg Festival. During his tenure as member of the ensemble at Oper Graz (2015/16-2017/18) he portrayed roles such as Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Dottore Grenvil (La Traviata), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Colline (La Bohème), Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims) and the title role of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.
Mr. Kellner was awarded the Independent Opera Fellowship at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, the second prize and the audience award at the International Mozart Competition Salzburg and the first prize at the International Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Deutschlandsberg.
He has worked with conductors such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Vasily Petrenko, Adam Fischer, Marco Armiliato, Ivor Bolton, Friedrich Haider and orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Camerata Salzburg, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Prague Philharmonic and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra.
 Mr. Kellner was born in the Slovak Republic and studied at the conservatory in Košice with M. Adamenko, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with B. Bakow, and he completed his bachelor’s degree with A. Sol at the Kunstuniversität Graz.