Shropshire-born baritone Peter Edge is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2025–27) and Rising Star of Voice at the Edinburgh International Festival (2025), as well as a finalist in the 2025 London Handel Festival Singing Competition and runner-up of the London Bach Singers Prize. He has appeared as a principal artist with many of the UK’s leading opera companies, including English National Opera, English Touring Opera, The Grange Festival, Longborough Festival Opera, Opera North, and the Royal Ballet and Opera. Peter studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Royal College of Music with Quentin Hayes, Peter Savidge and Andrew Robinson, where he was a Draper’s Scholar and supported by the Walker Trust. Since graduating, Peter has performed a number of roles, including Barone di Trombonok Il Viaggio a Reims, Baron Douphol La Traviata, Count Almaviva and Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Lord Mountararat Iolanthe, Keeper of the Madhouse Rake’s Progress, Ned Keene Peter Grimes and Marcello and Schaunard La Bohème. Next season, Peter will make his Asian debut, performing Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart’s Requiem with the Constellation Choir and Orchestra, under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Later in the year, Peter makes his European Operatic debut, performing the role of Nicandro in Handel’s Atalanta at the Innsbrucker Festwochen Der Alten Musik.