Peter Van Hulle - tenor
Peter Van Hulle read music at Leeds University and then studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Peter Alexander Wilson, and the National Opera Studio. He has won the Alexander Peden Fyfe Award, the Sybil Tutton Award and the John Scott Award, and been awarded Scholarships by Shell UK and the Countess of Munster Trust.
Opera includes Hotel Porter Death in Venice (English National Opera/La Monnaie), Menelaus La Belle Hélène, Borsa Rigoletto and Pong Turandot (ENO), Dr Caius Falstaff, Goro Madama Butterfly, Charles Lamb Monster, Cockerel/Schoolmaster The Cunning Little Vixen, Reverend Adams Peter Grimes, Philistine Man/Israelite Messenger Samson, Tchaplitsky The Queen of Spades, Sailor Tristan und Isolde, Marschallin’s Major Domo Der Rosenkavalier, and Messenger Aida (Scottish Opera). Don Ottavio (Mid Wales Opera and Opera Project), Alfredo La Traviata and Spoletta Tosca (Opera Holland Park), Guillot de Morfontaine Manon, Cockerel/Schoolmaster, Dr Blind Die Fledermaus and Basilio Le Nozze di Figaro (English Touring Opera), Mime Siegfried (Longborough Festival), Ogier in Schubert’s Fierrabras and Vitelozzo Lucrezia Borgia (Buxton Festival), and the title role in Handel’s Imeneo (Opera on a Shoestring). At the Royal Scottish Academy he sung Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia, Mad Woman Curlew River, Don Anchise La Finta Giardiniera, Benoit in Delibes’s La Roi L’a Dit, Guillot in Offenbach’s The Lantern Marriage, and Marachal in Milhaud’s Les Malheurs D’Orphée. He has covered Tamino for WNO and Lensky and Peter Quint for ENO.
In 2001 he created the title role in John Bevan Baker’s opera The Seer in Dingwall, Scotland, and performed Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia for the European Opera Centre in the first performances of this opera in Hungary. In 2002 he recorded Schoolmaster/Mosquito/Grasshopper for an animated film of The Cunning Little Vixen for BBC TV with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano. He created the lead role of Charlie Despard in Edward Rushton’s opera The Young Man and the Carnation for (Almeida, Buxton and Warwick Festivals), and the role of the Slave in Stuart MacRae’s The Assassin Tree (Edinburgh Festival/Linbury Studio). He recently took part in Scottish Opera’s Five: 15 Made in Scotland project.
His concert repertoire includes J S Bach’s St John Passion, Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Britten’s St Nicholas, Elgar’s The Kingdom, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Purcell’s King Arthur and Fairy Queen, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and Verdi’s Requiem. He has performed opera arias with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company singing Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, and with Birmingham Royal Ballet in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.
Future engagements include Dr Caius Falstaff (Diva Opera), Hotel Porter Death in Venice (La Scala) and Snout A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ENO).