ABOUT PETER
Lauded by Opera News as having “showed vocal confidence [...] his luminous head voice blooming with expansive and penetrating phrases,” and by Opera Today as bringing "the performance to an awestruck standstill with his exquisitely (singing).
Praised by Opera News for “his luminous head voice blooming with expensive and penetrating phrases”, Peter Drackley's recent season included Roberto Leicester in Maria Stuarda, Don José in Carmen, Justice Antonin Scalia in Scalia/Ginsburg, and Rodolfo in La bohème. As a grant awardee of the prestigious Olga Forrai Foundation, Mr. Drackley has sung Radamés in Aïda with Opera Carolina, Calaf in Turandot with Opera Grand Rapids, and Turiddu/Canio in Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci with Festival of the Atlantic. His international credits include Rodolfo in La bohème with Nevill Holt Opera and covering Cavaradossi in Tosca with English National Opera.
Mr. Drackley’s repertoire also includes Pollione in Norma, Fernando in La Favorita, Alfredo in La Traviata, Il Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto, Macduff in Macbeth, and Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera. In concert, Peter has been seen as the soloist in Verdi's Requiem ,Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony, Mozart's Requiem, and Schubert's Mass in G at Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Drackley’s performance of the first excerpts of Derrick Wang's opera Scalia/Ginsburg at the Supreme Court was featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Mr. Drackley’s accolades include 3rd Place in the McCammon Voice Competition, 2nd Place in the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Competition, 2nd Place in the Nicholas Loren Vocal Competition, and winner of the Michael Ballam Concorso Lirico International Competition.
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, he trained as an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Opera, covering Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Alfred in Die Fledermaus. As an apprentice with the Des Moines Metro Opera, he covered Der Tambourmajor in Wozzeck and The Governor in Candide. Drackley returned to Des Moines Metro Opera as a Studio artist, where he sang Pirelli in Sweeney Todd and Chekalinsky in Pikova Dama, while covering Gherman. As a studio artist with the Sarasota Opera, he covered Avito in L'amore dei Tre Re and sang the Chaplain of the Monastery in Dialogues des Carmélites.
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