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Bartolo in Nozze di Figaro for Opera Lyra Ottawa (with Lynne McMurtry as Marcellina)

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"McGillivray's rich, flexible and strong voice manages to find the right tone and timbre for each text, while he uses his growing operatic experience to tease out the drama from the verse."

Toronto Star

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Saskatchewan-born, baritone Peter McGillivray is a seasoned performing artist who first burst on to the scene as winner of the CBC Young Performers Competition in 2003. A former member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and alumnus of the University of Toronto, he has also spent a season on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera (La Bohème & Capriccio). Recent credits include a Dora-Award nomination for Best Actor for the Canadian Stage’s The Overcoat, and work with Calgary Opera (Pagliacci, Moby Dick & Silent Night), Manitoba Opera (La Bohème), Edmonton Opera (Die Fledermaus, La Cenerentola, Hansel & Gretel), Vancouver Opera (Albert Herring, The Overcoat, La Cenerentola), Pacific Opera Victoria (Barber of Seville, Fidelio), Dallas Opera (Moby Dick), Opéra de Québec (Madama Butterfly, Le barbier de Séville), Opera Lyra Ottawa (La Bohème, Barber of Seville) & the Canadian Opera Company (Gianni Schicchi). His pre-pandemic 2019-20 season included stints with Calgary Opera (La Bohème) and Edmonton Opera (Marriage of Figaro). During the pandemic he has kept busy, recording Gareth Williams’ Rocking Horse Winner with Tapestry Opera, filming Elizabeth Raum’s The Garden of Alice for Pacific Opera Victoria as well as teaching voice at Laurentian University and hosting the weekly music program Vocal Point with Peter McGillivray on CKLU 96.7FM in Sudbury.

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