Peter Robinson (conductor)

Peter Leslie Robinson (born 24 June 1949) is an English conductor, principally of opera. His repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary, with a special interest in Italian opera of the 19th and early 20th centuries. His appointments have included Resident Conductor of The Australian Opera, Assistant Music Director of English National Opera and Artistic Director of British Youth Opera.

He was born in Hartlepool, Co. Durham and attended West Hartlepool Grammar School. Before studying music at St John's College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, he spent a year as Assistant Organist of Durham Cathedral. While at Oxford he conducted many operas and concerts, including Britten's War Requiem, Tippett's A Child of Our Time, and the premiere of Stephen Oliver's The Duchess of Malfi for Oxford University Opera Club.

He began his operatic career as Chorus Master at Glyndebourne, followed by several years as Head of Music Staff and Resident Conductor with The Australian Opera in Sydney. He returned to London to become Assistant Music Director at English National Opera, where his repertoire included Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Otello, Rigoletto, Carmen, Maria Stuarda, L'Orfeo, Hansel & Gretel, The Turn of the Screw, and all the major Mozart operas. He was the first conductor of Jonathan Miller's production of The Mikado at the London Coliseum, which he also recorded for CD and television. He returned to ENO to conduct the 25th Anniversary performances and, most recently, to conduct 'Marvellous Miller', a celebration of the director's forty-year collaboration with the company. 

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