Peter Karrie (born 10 August 1946), is a Welsh singer, best known for his portrayal of the lead role in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera. He played the part in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Singapore, Hong Kong and on the UK Tour in Bradford, and Manchester. He was twice voted the favourite Phantom of members of The Phantom of the Opera Appreciation Society, in 1994 and 1995.
He also created roles in three Bernard J. Taylor musicals (see below) and received excellent reviews. The title role of Nosferatu was specially written for Karrie.
Karrie was brought up in Wales, where he is particularly well known, having had his own show on BBC Wales, both television and radio. He began his career as the lead singer of a pop group, "Peter and the Wolves", and went on to star in many West End musical productions, including Les Misérables (on three different runs) and Chess. He is a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and is married with six children.
He has also played Daddy Warbucks in Annie and Fagin in Oliver! for Richard Cheshire.
In 2006, he starred with Shan Côthi in the Mal Pope musical, Amazing Grace, at the Wales Millennium Centre for the Wales Theatre Company.
Peter is an ambassador for Bobath Children's Therapy Centre Wales a registered charity, based in Cardiff which provides specialist Bobath therapy to children from all over Wales who have cerebral palsy.
Peter has recently performed with OpusOne Productions alongside John Owen Jones and Nic Greenshields in 'The Three Phantoms' concert. Sarah Lark, Elin Wyn Murphy and Geraint Owen co-starred in this one-off event for George Thomas Hospice Care.
On 22nd November 2009 Peter Karrie's back catalogue of music will be released digitally for the first time by FlyRy Records. The recordings will be available via iTunes, Amazon MP3 and Napster. Peter will also record a new album with FlyRy Records towards the end of 2009 which will be available in early 2010.
Albums
- Theatrically Yours
- Peter Karrie Unmasked
- The Impossible Dream
- Nosferatu the Vampire (creating the title role in the Bernard J. Taylor opera)
- Pride and Prejudice (creating the role of Darcy in the musical by Bernard J. Taylor)
- Peter Karrie Sings Bernard J. Taylor
- Much Ado (creating the role of Don John in the Bernard J. Taylor musical based on Shakespeare's play)
References
- Official Peter Karrie Site
- "Phantom Appreciation Society". favourite Phantom poll. http://www.phantomoftheopera.com/modules/icontent/index.php?page=12. Retrieved 2005-04-12.
- IMDB profile of Peter Karrie
- http://www.bernardjtaylor.com/musicals.html
- http://www.bernardjtaylor.com/Nosferatu/nos.html
- http://www.bernardjtaylor.com/CDs/CDsKarrie.html
- http://www.flyry.co.uk
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