“His voice has excellent focus, is richly hued, and deployed with great musicality, sensitivity, and rhythmic surety.”
Michael Halliwell, Australian Book Review, 3rd October 2022

Australian-Maltese tenor Brenton Spiteri holds a double Bachelor in Arts and Music (Hons.) from the University in Melbourne, and also completed the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is based in London where he is increasingly in demand on both the opera and concert platforms.

Brenton has been the recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for singing from the Australia Council, as well as numerous other prizes including the Herald Sun Aria. In 2025, he holds the Melba Opera Trust’s MJ Gething Alumni Grant, and sings Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) for English Touring Opera.

His engagements in 2024 included Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress) and Edmondo (Manon Lescaut) for English Touring Opera, Almaviva (The Barber of Seville) for Waterperry Opera and the title character in The Diary of One Who Disappeared for Victorian Opera/Brisbane Music Festival, as well as numerous recitals for Opera Prelude.

His performed roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Beppe (Rita), Almaviva (The Barber of Seville), Telemaco (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria). Previously a member of the studio at Opéra de Lyon, he performed roles in their productions of L’incoronazione di Poppea and Le Roi Carotte.

He is also a renowned interpreter of contemporary Australian work, with his most significant role creations to date including Ashley Crowther (Fly Away Peter) and Oscar Hopkins (Oscar and Lucinda), both for Sydney Chamber Opera.

Also a passionate song recitalist, he is a core member of Songmakers Australia, and gives frequent recital performances in the UK and Australia. Performed works include Schubert’s Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin cycles, Britten’s Canticles (I-V), Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Les Illuminations and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, among numerous others. He is a previous runner-up in the Mietta Song Competition.

Brenton’s career has been generously supported by the Amar-Franses and Foster-Jenkins Trust, Melba Opera Trust, Australia Council, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Basil A. Turner Prize and Opera Prelude.