Person Open DS/UK/11418 Sidhom; Peter (1948-); Egyptian-born English bass-baritone Sidhom Peter 1948- Egyptian-born English bass-baritone Male

Peter Sidhom, born Ismailia, Egypt, 23 September 1948, English baritone. Peter Sidhom came to live in Britain at the age of ten. He read Modern Languages at London University before studying singing with Hervey Alan and Josephine Veasey. His debut with Scottish Opera was in The Jacobin, and that was followed by Alberich, Pizarro and Faninal, before taking on Falstaff in 2009. With ENO he sang Napoleon in War and Peace and Barnaba in La Gioconda. He has also sung at the Glyndebourne Festival, and performed the multiple Traveller roles in Death in Venice at Aldeburgh and Bregenz.. His roles with the Royal Opera House have included Scarpia, Grigoris (The Greek Passion), Paolo Albiani and Alberich. He has worked at many of the world's major opera houses, his repertoire including Faninal (San Francisco, Chicago), Nelusko in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine (Strasbourg), Don Estéban in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg (Brussels), and Balstrode at the Paris Opéra Bastille. He has also sung in Florence, Venice, Toulouse, Madrid and Stuttgart. www.operascotland.org International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 1/23/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 b5c22c44-6460-474f-8cc0-aeb946438940