Born in Hertfordshire, Peter Bronder studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio, before taking his first engagements at Glyndebourne and Welsh National Opera. While at this time he focused on leading roles in the Italian lyric repertoire as well as works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss, he has more recently, and without neglecting his lyrical qualities, moved into the dramatic, predominantly German repertoire with roles such as Loge (Das Rheingold), Mime (Siegfried), Herod (Salome), and the title roles in Der Zwerg and Palestrina. He has appeared regularly with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden (Lucia di Lammermoor, Otello, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Wozzeck, The Rake’s Progress, Salome, La forza del destino), English National Opera (Katya Kabanova, The Barber of Seville, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Fledermaus, Il prigioniero), Opera North (La rondine, Wozzeck, Il re pastore), Scottish Opera (La bohème, Maria Stuarda, Das Rheingold) and Welsh National Opera(Iphigénie en Tauride, Falstaff, Peter Grimes), and, abroad, has participated in productions at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Frankfurt Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, The Metropolitan Opera, New York, San Francisco Opera, De Nederlandse Opera, Théâtre royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, De Vlaamse Opera, Komische Oper Berlin and Châtelet–Théâtre musical de Paris. In concert Peter Bronder has worked with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras and Antonio Pappano.