Bass-Baritone Peter Morgan
ROLES PREPARED AND/OR PERFORMED
Angelotti – Tosca
Bartolo – Le nozze di Figaro
Balthazar – Amahl and the Night Visitors
Bardolfo – Falstaff (Salieri)
Bartolo – Il barbiere di Siviglia
Bartolo – Le nozze di Figaro
Betto – Gianni Schicchi
Bonze – Madama Butterfly
Chiron – Jason and the Argonauts (Spears)
Colline – La bohème
Colonel – The Falling and the Rising
Daddy – Taking Up Serpents
Don Alfonso – Cosi fan tutte
Don Basilio – Il barbiere di Sivigilia
Don Pedro – Songbird
Escamillo – Carmen
Fasolt – Das Rheingold
Ferrando – Il Trovatore
Figaro – Le nozze di Figaro
Il Commendatore – Don Giovanni
Il Re – Aida
King Louis XVI – The Ghosts of Versailles
Leporello – Don Giovanni
Marchese d’Obigny – La Traviata
Masetto – Don Giovanni
Max Detweiler – The Sound of Music
Monterone – Rigoletto
Orovseo – Norma
Pooh-Bah – The Mikado
Publio – La clemenza di Tito
Raimondo – Lucia di Lammermoor
Sarastro – Die Zauberflöte
Secret Police Agent – The Consul
Schaunard – La bohème
Sparafucile – Rigoletto
Sprecher – Die Zauberflöte
Sugar Dog – The Copper Queen
Tod – Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Timur – Turandot
Truffaldino – Ariadne auf Naxos
Vodnik – Rusalka
William Jennings Bryan – The Ballad of Baby Doe
Zuniga – Carmen
ROLES IN PREPARATION
Alberich – Götterdämmerung
Alberich – Siegfried
Banquo – Macbeth
Bottom – A Midsummer Nights Dream
Daland – Der fliegende Holländer
Don Pasquale – Don Pasquale
Dulcamara – L’elisir d’amore
Sancho – Don Quichotte
Hailed by Opera News as an “excellent and exciting bass-baritone,” Peter Morgan has earned a reputation as a dynamic performer at a growing number of opera houses both domestically and abroad. Known for his “booming voice” and “captivating” performances, Mr. Morgan has recently begun his journey into the Wagnerian repertoire, performing the role of Alberich (Das Rheingold, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung) with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, West Edge Opera, and Tacoma Opera. In addition to the classic operatic canon, Mr. Morgan has made a name for himself as an interpreter of new music with several regional and world premieres to his name, including Jason and the Argonauts by Gregory Spears with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles with L’Opéra Royal de Versailles (which is available to stream on Medici TV), and the world premiere film of The Copper Queen by Clint Borzoni and John de los Santos with Arizona Opera, which was nominated for Best Digital Opera in the International Opera Awards.
Mr. Morgan’s 2025-2026 season includes a return to the role of Alberich with Tacoma Opera, a return to Chicago Opera Theater as Bardolfo in Falstaff and bass-baritone soloist in the company’s Shakespeare Sings Concert, a role and house debut with Opera Southwest as the King of Egypt in Verdi’s Aida, and bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah with The Apollo Chorus of Chicago and the Northbrook Chamber Orchestra
The 2024-2025 season included a cover assignment with Chicago Opera Theater as Giachino in Ferdinando Paër’s Leonora, a role and house debut as Vodnik in Rusalka with Pacific Northwest Opera, and Il Barbiere di Sivilia with Druid City Opera as Bartolo.
2023-2024 season highlights included Max in The Sound of Music with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Opera Tampa, Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Druid City Opera, and a return to Lyric Opera of Chicago to reprise the role he created in Jason and the Argonauts. That season also saw an exciting and successful series of forays into Wagnerian repertoire, including Alberich in The Journey to Valhalla with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and in The Legend of the Ring with West Edge Opera.
2022-2023 season highlights included a return to Arizona Opera to sing Truffaldino in their production of Ariadne auf Naxos, Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music, and the Speaker in The Magic Flute, in addition to performing Monterone in Intermountain Opera Bozeman‘s production of Rigoletto.
During the 2021-2022 season, Mr. Morgan made his house debut with Opera San José singing Moralès and covering Escamillo in Carmen. He also returned to Opera Carolina to sing the role of The Colonel in Zach Redler’s powerful opera, The Falling and the Rising. In the spring of 2022, Morgan returned to Lyric Opera of Kansas City to sing Angelotti and cover Scarpia in Tosca, and that summer he also returned to The Glimmerglass Festival to sing Zuniga in Carmen and Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music for Francesca Zambello’s final season as General Director.
In recent seasons, Mr. Morgan made his house debut with Arizona Opera, originating the role of Sugar Dog in their filmed world premiere of The Copper Queen by Clint Borzoni and John de los Santos (which went on to become an official selection in the Arizona Film Festival). Mr. Morgan also returned to The Glimmerglass Festival singing the role of Ferrando in Il Trovatore and Don Pedro in Songbird, a world premiere reimagining of Offenbach’s La Perichole set in 1920’s New Orleans with Jazz orchestration by Jim Lowe and libretto by Kelly Rourke. In the fall of 2021, Mr. Morgan made his debut with Lyric Opera of Kansas City singing King Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Morgan also made his house debut in 2020 with Opera Carolina, singing Colline in La bohéme, and then reprised the same role with Toledo Opera. He also sang Publio in The Shepherd School of Music’s production of La clemenza di Tito (which was cut short due to COVID-19). Mr. Morgan was then to perform Timur in Turandot with Opera Grand Rapids before returning to The Glimmerglass Festival to cover Leporello in Don Giovanni, as well as Gernot in their production of Wagner’s Die Feen—all of which were either canceled or postponed due to the continuing pandemic.
Mr. Morgan is a graduate of the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he was the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies Fellow, and was also awarded the coveted Brockman Scholarship for Opera.
