Auty took the role of Camille in Yorklight Opera Company's production of
The Merry Widow in 1995. Subsequently, he moved to the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he studied under Peter Alexander Wilson alongside training with the
British Youth Opera. At the summer performance in 1997 of Prokofiev's
Betrothal in a Monastery (given as
The Duenna), the
Opera critic noted "another potentially Wagnerian voice, the tenor Peter Auty, a very young-looking Don Jerome; the voice has that edge of smoky colour one associates with a Siegfried, but still has to settle into its own space and breadth". Auty's professional stage debut was with
Opera North in 1998. With the company, he subsequently sang the roles of Rodolfo in
La bohème during the 2001-02 season and Don José in
Carmen in 2011. At Covent Garden he played the Major-Domo to the Marschallin in the 2000 run of
Der Rosenkavalier under
Thielemann, Michelis in the 2000 run of
The Greek Passion under
Mackerras, Flavio in
Norma, Maintop in
Billy Budd and a Shepherd in
Tristan und Isolde in 2000, Roderigo in
Otello, Gastone in
La traviata and Third Esquire in
Parsifal in 2001, Malcolm in
Macbeth in 2002, and Arturo in
Lucia di Lammermoor in 2003. Elsewhere in Britain he sang at
Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Rodrigo in
Verdi's Otello and Nemorino in
Donizetti's ''
L'elisir d'amore''). His Don José for the Glyndebourne tour in 2002 was described as "beautifully sung, deeply troubled". There have also been roles with
Scottish Opera and
English National Opera. In other parts of Europe he has appeared in many other venues such as
Frankfurt and
Rouen. In 2018 he sang the "exhausting" title role in the stage premiere (and UK premiere) of Konstantin Boyarsky's
Pushkin at
Grange Park Opera. As the only non-Russian in the cast, "Auty coped heroically with Boyarsky's demanding vocal lines, and emphasized Pushkin's ardour and naiveté, nonchalantly delivering the many quotes (in Russian) that pepper the libretto". Auty has also performed concerts with orchestras both in his home country and abroad, such as the
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Sir Colin Davis, the
Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Vladimir Ashkenazy and the
Royal Flemish Philharmonic led by
Edo de Waart. ==Selected discography==