Simon Keenlyside
Birthplace:
London, UK
Studies:
Zoology at Cambridge University and vocal training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
Prizes / Honours:
Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2018), Appointment as Austrian Kammersänger at the Wiener Staatsoper (2017), Best Opera Recording (Grammy Awards 2014), Music DVD Recording of the Year (Echo Klassik Awards 2014), Solo Vocal Award ( Gramophone Awards 2012), Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year Award (2011), Male Singer of the Year (ECHO Klassik Award 2007), Outstanding Achievement in Opera (Olivier Award 2006), Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (2003), et al.
Important parts:
Il Conte d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Prospero (The Tempest), Posa (Don Carlo), Germont Père (La Traviata), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), Wozzeck (Wozzeck), Billy Budd (Billy Budd), Hamlet (Hamlet), Macbeth (Macbeth), Rigoletto (Rigoletto), Marcello (La bohème) sowie Brittens War Requiem, Mendelssohns Elijah, Mahlers Des Knaben Wunderhorn, et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, New National Theatre Tokyo sowie Engagements in Luxemburg, Paris, Bratislava, Vancouver, Quebec, Washington DC, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Straßburg, Amsterdam, London, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
David Bösch, Marco Arturo Marelli, Frederic Wake-Walker, Johannes Erath, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Franz Welser-Möst, Ryan Wigglesworth, Gianandrea Noseda, Paul McCreesh, Sir Simon Rattle, Edward Gardner, Claudio Abbado, Christian Thielemann, Ricardo Chailly, Richard Hickox, Charles Mackerras, René Jacobs, et al.
