Peter Berger was born in Slovakia, and studied singing at the Košice Conservatorium of Music with Juraj Šomorjai. While still a student, he appeared as a soloist at the Košice State Ttheatre. He has taken part in Vocal Masterclasses with many renowed teachers, including Peter Dvorský, Eva Blahová, and Ryszard Karczykowski.
Recent engagements include Alfredo Germont/La traviata at the Slovak National Theatre; Michel/Juliette at the National Theatre Prague; Laca/Jenufa at the Scottish National Opera, Danish National Opera, and in Santiago; Prince/Rusalka in Santiago and Tokyo; and Boris/Katja Kabanova with the Danish National Opera. He also performed Janacek's Glagolitic Mass and Dvorak's Te Deum under Jaroslav Kyzlink with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and
Future engagements include Alfredo Germont/La traviata at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Ismaele/Nabucco at ND Brno, Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly, Mario Cavaradossi/Tosca, Prince/Rusalka, Riccardo/Un ballo in maschera and Alfredo Germont/La traviata at the National Theatre Prague, Manru/Manru at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, as well as Laca/Jenufa at Teatro Regio di Torino with R. Carsen.
Other important engagements include Prince/Rusalka in Rome and Beijing, Svanda at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Laca/Jenufa and Te Deum at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, and Don Jose/Carmen in Santiago.
The 2010/11 season included performances in Brno, Prague and Bratislava, singing the roles of Michel and Jenik (The Bartered Bride), Lensky, the Prince, Alfredo (La traviata), Pinkerton, Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), the Italian Tenor (Der Rosenkavalier), Rodolfo (La Bohème), and Jiří (The Jacobin). His concert work included Beethoven's Mass in C at the Janacek Festival in Ostrava and Bruckner's Te Deum in Brno. He made his highly successful debut at the Wexford Festival as Lukas in Smetana's Hubicka.
In the 2007/8 season Peter Berger made his debut with the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava as Pinkerton in Peter Konwitschny's production of Madama Butterfly under Oliver Dohnányi. In 2008 he sang the title role in Faust at the Croatian National Theatre in Split, and in the same season he made his debut in the role of the Prince in Rusalka at the National Theatre Brno. This was the start of Peter's association with this theatre, where he has been a soloist since the 2008/9 season in roles including Ismael in Nabucco, Alfredo in La traviata, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, and Michel in Martinů's Julietta. In 2009 Peter made his first guest appearances at the National Theatre and the State Opera Prague in the roles of Pinkerton and the Prince in Rusalka, respectively. In 2010 he sang Lensky in Bremen opera to great acclaim and subsequently made his debut at the Lodz Grand Theatre as the Prince.
In addition to his operatic work Peter Berger is a prolific concert artist, and has sung with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the State Philharmonic Košice, Prague Philharmonia, Brno Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Czech Virtuosi. He has performed in many domestic and foreign concerts as well as being a permanent guest at the festival 'Viva il Canto' in Czeszyn, Poland and at the international festival in Sopron, Hungary. His concert repertoire includes the Glagolitic Mass, Puccini's Messa Di Gloria, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Mozart's Requiem and Masses, as well as Beethoven's 9th Symphony. He sang in a gala concert with Jelena Obraztsova and Peter Dvorský, and gave concert performances to Japan, Malta, and Riga.
In 2006 he was awarded first prize at the Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský International Vocal Competition in Trnava (Slovakia) and special prize for the best interpretation of Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský songs. In 2007 he was awarded first prize at the Anglo Czecho-Slovak Trust competition in London, and in 2008 he was a semi-finalist at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He was also awarded the Slovak Literary fund prize for his interpretation of the role of the Prince in Rusalka.