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JEREMY PEAKER
Artistic Director of the company
 Jeremy is from Barnsley in Yorkshire and spent his first eight years of professional life as a Colliery Stores Manager for the NCB. In 1985 he gained a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under
Noelle Barker OBE.
In 1988 he became a Founder member of the New D’Oyly
Carte Opera Company,
playing the roles of Jack Point Yeomen
Of The Guard, Pirate
King and The Major GeneralPirates
Of Penzance, Koko The
Mikado and principal
baritone in the company's 'Gilbert
And Sullivan A La Carte' concerts
around the country. For Crystal Clear Opera the roles of Sacristan, Tosca,
Yamadori and the Commissioner, Madame
Butterfly, Antonio Marriage
Of Figaro, Pish
Tush The Mikado and
Sir Joseph Porter HMS
Pinafore at St David's
Hall Cardiff. Central Festival Opera, Frosch Die
Fledermaus.
For Scottish Chamber Orchestra Escamillo, Carmen and a G & S Scottish Prom in Glasgow. Jeremy was in the international tour of Chess playing Molokov and Walter De Courcey as far away as Trondheim in Norway, and Dublin in Ireland.
For London Savoyards, the entire Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire,
at the Barbican Hall. Jeremy is a full time member of Opera North
where his roles are Slade in the European Premier of Kurt Weills
Broadway musical Love
Life, Lopez The
Duenna (also recorded
for Chandos), Registrar Madame
Butterfly, Ambrogio The
Barber Of Seville,
Welko Arabella, 1st
Citizen Sweeney
Todd, Barone
Duphol and Servo, La
Traviata, Seargent
at Arms Manon
Lescaut 1st
Villager Il Pagliacci, Taxi Black in One
Touch of Venus, Grigorio The Thieving
Magpie, and currently Antonio
The Marriage
Of Figaro
Understudies include The Mayor Jenufa, Schaunard / Benoit, La Boheme, Mars
and Jupiter Orpheus In The Underworld, Sir Robert Cecil, Gloriana
and currently The Father and The Minister Arms
and The Cow and Rabonier La Rondine.
Jeremy has appeared at Gawsworth Hall as The Learned Judge Trial By Jury & Sir Joseph Porter HMS Pinafore, and Major General Pirates Of Penzance, also Trio, Trouble In Tahiti, Opera in Prisons Project, Cox in Cox & Box, Aristide Not In Front Of The Waiter for Briggate Opera at Whitley Bay Playhouse.
Much Loved Productions Ltd is Jeremy’s Company, providing one-night concerts around the country, to great acclaim, now celebrating its 12th year.
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