Simon Keenlyside
Sir Simon Keenlyside , CBE (* 3. August 1959 in London ) is an English opera singer of the vocal range baritone .
Life
As a child he attended St. John's College School in Cambridge . After completing a degree in zoology at the University of Cambridge , he made a vocal training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester .
Keenlyside regularly receives invitations to Zurich , Barcelona , Madrid , the Bavarian State Opera , Tokyo , the Metropolitan Opera , the Salzburg Festival , Scala , Ferrara , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Paris Opera .
He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1999 as Marcello ( La Bohème ) and subsequently sang at this house - sometimes in premieres - Figaro ( Il barbiere di Siviglia ), Posa ( Don Carlo ), Conte d'Almaviva ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Giorgio Germont in La traviata , the title roles in Wozzeck , Billy Budd , Eugen Onegin , Macbeth , Don Giovanni , Rigoletto and Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute .
Web links
- Simon Keenlyside homepage
- Simon Keenlyside at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Simon Keenlyside agency profile
- Simon Keenlysides appearances at the Vienna State Opera
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Keenlyside . In: wiener-staatsoper.at , accessed on December 21, 2014.
- ↑ At the premiere of Rigoletto's new production on December 20, 2014, Keenlyside had to be replaced by Paolo Rúmetz due to loss of voice from the third act , cf. High expectations of opera classics (...) Premiere under a bad star . In: orf.at , December 21, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Keenlyside, Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British opera singer with a baritone voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd August 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |