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Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)

Born: 1959 - London, England

The English baritone, Simon Keenlyside, studied zoology at Cambridge and singing with John Cameron at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Simon Keenlyside made his operatic debut at the Hamburg State Opera as Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro). He has since sung in Geneva (Hamlet), San Francisco (Pelleas), Sydney (Figaro), Berlin (Figaro), Paris (Papageno and Guglielmo), at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (Belcore), La Scala, Milan (Papageno and Count Almaviva under Riccardo Muti), in Ferrara (Don Giovanni under Claudio Abbado), and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Belcore, Marcello, Guglielmo and Count Almaviva under Bernard Haitink). He returned to La Scala (Papageno), to the Metropolitan Opera (Marcello) and to Paris (Dandini in La Cenerentola and Yeletsky in Pique Dame). He made his debuts at the Vienna State Opera (Figaro and Marcello) and the Bavarian State Opera (Marcello and Wolfram), and sang his first Orfeo in Brussels, London and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Simon Keenlyside enjoys extensive concert and recital work, appearing recently with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta, Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg and Berlin under Claudio Abbado, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in London and Vienna under Sir Simon Rattle.

For EMI Classics, Simon Keenlyside has recorded two recital discs featuring works by Schubert and Strauss with Malcolm Martineau, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn under Sir Simon Rattle. His most recent role is Mercutio in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette with Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, and Michel Plasson conducting the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.

In 1995 Simon Keenlyside received the Singer of the Year Award both from the Critics Circle and the Royal Philharmonic Society.


Source: EMI Classics Website (March 1998); Ruud Janssen (February 2006)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (April 2002)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Claudio Abbado

Bass

BWV 232, BWV 244

Links to other Sites

Simon Keenlyside (Official Website)
EMI Classics: Simon Keenlyside
Simon Keenlyside - baritone (Hyperion)
Simon Keenlyside - biography (Gulbenkian) [Portuguese]

About Simon Keenlyside (Opera Pages Hohn Pierce)
Yahoo! group: Fans of Simon Keenlyside
Interview with Simon Keenlyside (MusicWeb)
Simon Keenlyside (Askonas Holt)


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