 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" around 2001-2002 and Don José in "Carmen" in 2011.