Peter Tuff has been hailed as "an outstanding singer" (Salzburger Nachrichten), "strong and commanding" (San Francisco Examiner), and "in voice and appearance the ideal romantic hero" (Reno Gazette-Journal).  In a career spanning 30 years on three continents, Tuff has performed 30 leading roles in opera and musical theater, and dozens of supporting roles.

Tuff sang his first role - John Sorel in The Consul by Menotti - during his undergraduate studies in voice and horn at Pacific Lutheran University.  Following private study with the late Dickson Titus in San Francisco, Tuff moved to Austria, where he lived with his wife and three children for ten years, singing in the Salzburg Festival (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and others), and where he was a member of the Vienna State Opera and the Imperial Chapel.  Tuff was invited to perform Schubert's Schwanengesang in the Baroque Palais Harrach for the Tausend Jahre Österreich celebration, and in Graz he performed a unique recital of Schubert song fragments with fortepiano.  Invited by the Vienna Schubert Society, Tuff performed Schubert's songs in the house of the composer's birth.  Of his performance as Hans Scholl in Udo Zimmermann's Weiße Rose with Musikwerkstatt Wien, the Vienna Kurier wrote that Tuff "conquered the demanding role."

Tuff has performed with San Francisco Opera, Monterey Symphony, Opera San Jose, Pocket Opera, Berkeley Opera, and more.  Following a performance of Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony, the San Jose Mercury called Tuff a "top shelf soloist" and "a burnished and expressive singer."  Performing Arts Monterey Bay wrote that "Tuff was best of show in Ford's monologue" [from Verdi's Falstaff].  His performances with Opera Theatre of the Rockies in Colorado Springs - most recently in the title role of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado - have included Carmen, Pagliacci, Daughter of the Regiment, La Cenerentola, and The Sound of Music.  With the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, he has been featured in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Orff's Carmina Burana, and in both sets of Aaron Copland's Old American Songs.  Some of his favorite recital performances have included songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Copland, and Vaughan Williams.  

Tuff made his debut in Freeman's Schmeckfest in 2022 as Abel Frake in Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair, and in 2023 he appeared as Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in Colorado's Crested Butte Music Festival.  He has sung with The Rose Ensemble and Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, and he currently sings with the Sioux Falls vocal ensemble Transept and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Chorus.  Tuff teaches Applied Voice as adjunct voice professor at Augustana University.