Peter Corry

Peter Corry
Occupation Singer, Director and Producer

Peter Corry (born Peter Andrew Corry, 1965, Belfast) is a Northern Irish singer, director, producer and actor.

He is a Singer, Director and Producer.

As a performer Corry has been cast in productions of Cosi fan tutte, as Guglielmo, The Marriage of Figaro as Figaro, Sweeney in "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barbour of Fleet Street" Andrew in "On Eagles Wing" PBS television, Jamie in "The Last 5 Years", Anatoly in "Chess",The Beggars Opera plus Captain Macheath and Ignati in "The Crocodile". He performed as Dean Martin in The Rat Pack, starred in Night of 1,000 Stars at the Royal Albert Hall and performed in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Corry has presented his own TV series, The Peter Corry Show with BBC Northern Ireland and he has hosted a daily music show for BBC Radio Ulster.

He played the role of The Narrator in "On Eagles Wing" for PBS television USA.

Corry spent three years playing Inspector Javert, in the West End, and then the UK tour of the Schonberg and Boubil's, Les Misérables. Theatre producer, He produced Les Misérables at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena, at the time the largest production to be staged.

Corry's production company, 'PC Productions" staged One Enchanted Evening with Joanna Ampil, Barbara Dickson and Brian Kennedy and a choir of 850 and "The Night of 1000 Voices" at the Odyssey Arena. It also staged "The Night of 1000 Voices" starrind David Essex and Sir James Galway. PC Productions produced the "Making a Difference" Awards for the Belfast Telegraph and the "40 years Celebration of Mary Peters" both at the Grand Opera House Belfast. The latter featured among others Sir Steve Redgrave, Dame Kelly Holmes, Daley Thompson, Jane Torvill, Sue Barker, Eamonn Holmes, Barry Douglas and Van Morrison.

He sang "Bring Him Home" and "The Long and Winding Road" at George Best's funeral. In 2014 he released his latest album "Here Stands a Man".

In 2006, Corry featured in Washington on St Patrick's Day and performed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Corry tours The Netherlands regularly.His shows there have included "The Magical Rhythms of Ireland", "Celtic Rhythms" "Irish Christmas" and "Peter Corry in Concert".

He has directed productions of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change", "Oklahoma!" "Celtic Rhythms" USA tour, "The Magic of the Tenors" European Tour and "The Producers". In 2014 he directed a new show called "Spectacular, Spectacular".

Also since 2009 he has produced, directed and hosted the Irish Christmas Spectacular "The Music Box" 2009-2014

Discography

Show Albums

He has three children and lives in London with his partner, Fleur Mellor.

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