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Introduction “The finest singing of the evening came from baritone Peter McGillivray, as Albert’s friend Sid. He caught the colour and nuance of every word in his lines and delivered them with a round, cultivated tone that perfectly reflected his character’s self-satisfied suavity” Opera News, Christopher Hoile BiographyThe award-winning Saskatchewan baritone Peter McGillivray has been gaining accolades on both the concert and operatic stage. He won the Deuxième Grand Prix and prize for Best Canadian Performance at the 2005 Montreal International Musical Competition, a success followed by another top prize at the Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo, Norway. He previously gained national recognition at the CBC Radio-Canada Young Performers Competition in Calgary when he took home the First Prize as well as the Audience Award in 2003.
January 2012
Full RepertoireOpera
Concert/Oratorio
Musical Theatre
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Reviews"Among a very fine ensemble of singers, pride of place must go to baritone Peter McGillivray as Raoul/Hernando [Tapestry's production of THE SHADOW]. His central role bears the biggest burden, and he negotiated the difficult and taxing score with great musical skill and all the dramatic chops to create a strong, pivotal character." “The various Gypsy roles were nicely cast too...The two gypsy men, Peter McGillivray as Dancairo and James McLennan as Remendado, provided comic relief and together with the ladies sang an excellent version of the famous quintet in the second act.” Calgary Herald, Kenneth DeLong
“Baritone Peter McGillivray sang with force and conviction.”(Brahms’ Requiem) Ottawa Citizen, Richard Todd
Une très jolie voix...McGillivray a hureusement eu l’occasion do montrer sa réelle qualité d’acteur dès l’air suivant, celui où Leporello décline la list des maîtresses de Don Juan. Très a l’aise, l’interprète a bien fait rire quand il a sorti de sa poche un agenda électronique...L’extrait du Thaïs de Massenet, servie vers la fin de la première partie, est sans doute celui où le baryton a le mieux montré la qualité de son étoffe, à la fois ronde, brillante et riche...Un autre bon moment que celui où McGillivray a chanté l’air d’Onéguine, tendrement, en russe et, comme l’ensemble de son programme, de mémoire.” Le Soleil, Richard Boisvert
“Tenor Michael Colvin and baritone Peter McGillivray were quite thrilling in the Pearl Fishers duet.” The Globe and Mail, Ken Winters
“Deuxième prix au Concours international de Montréal l’an dernier, le baryton Peter McGillivray fut magnifique dans les deux oeuvres: timbre riche, conduite vocale impeccable, intelligence du texte, présence imposante. Il montra ces mêmes qualités-dignes du premier prix-cans un lied tiré d’un recueil de Korngold qui annonçait le Quintette pour piano et cordes du célèbre compositeur de musique de film.” La Presse (Montreal), Claude Gingras
“A uniformly strong cast was led by baritone Peter McGillivray in the title role. Making a welcome return to Canada from His current program of studies in Germany, McGillivray is clearly still on track for the important career that his success in competitions over the past couple of years has promised. The voice is full and strong, and he uses it with a great feel for cadence and line. He’s frankly a bit young to carry this role [Mazeppa] off convincingly, but that’s picky in the face of such musicality and commitment. His performance was extraordinarily rewarding to the audience.” Opera Canada, Wayne Gooding
Albert Herring at the Britten Festival with the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, UK “Things perked up enormously with the arrival of the excellent trio of singers cast as Sid (Peter McGillivray), Nancy (Cerys Jones) and Albert (Allan Clayton): when all three were together, the stage crackled with sexual energy, fuelled both by the expressions of evidently love of butcher boy and baker’s girl, and unwillingly virginal Albert’s mounting frustration.” Opera Magazine, Graeme Kay
Montreal International Musical Competition, 2005
Peter McGillivray, héros de la soirée
“La prestation de Vendredi placerait nettement McGillivray à place de la Coréenne qui, entrant après lui, a paru complètement écrasée. La voix large et sonore du baryton, gran et bien droit, s’est superbement déployée dans une Romance àl’étoile (de Tannhäuser)...Mais le difficile air de Ford, de Falstaff, allait ensuite révéler un mécanisme vocal d’une rare clarté.”
La Presse, Claude Gingras
In Recital, Rosza Centre, Calgary
“The second half was devoted to three groups of songs sung by baritone Peter McGillivray. Also a CBC competition winner...McGillivray is a first –class recitalist. Blessed with a voice of considerable amplitude with a ringing top and a strong lower register, McGillivray showed his interpretive flexibility in exquisite performances of sons by the Canadian composer Derek Holman, Francis Poulenc, and Jean Sibelius. While all three sets were excellent sung, the Poulenc and Sibelius groups were especially fine, the character of the modern French songs beautifully interpreted, and the intense romanticism of the early Sibelius songs warmly presented.”
The Calgary Herald, Kenneth DeLong
La Bohème, Canadian Opera Company
“Two other Ensemble members, baritone Peter McGillivray as Schaunard, the musician, and bass-baritone Robert Gleadow as Colline, the philosopher, did themselves more than proud. Both san outstandingly well, both took their lion’s share of the comedy with panache and (in the absence of girlfriends for them in the libretto) with a legitimate touch of camp.”
The Globe and Mail, Ken Winters
Albert Herring, Canadian Opera Company
"The finest singing of the evening came from baritone Peter McGillivray, as Albert’s friend Sid. He caught the colour and nuance of every word in his lines and delivered them with a round, cultivated tone that perfectly reflected his character’s self-satisfied suavity.”
Opera News, Christopher Hoile
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