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Simon Keenlyside Order of the British Empire|CBE (born 3 August 1959) is a British baritone who has had an active international career performing in opera s and concerts since the mid 1980s.

Biography

Early life and education

Keenlyside was born in London, the son of Raymond and Ann Keenlyside. Raymond played second violin in the Aeolian Quartet , and Ann's father was the violinist Leonard Hirsch. When he was eight, he was enrolled in St John's College School , a boarding school for the child choristers of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge and spent much of his childhood touring and recording with the choir under the direction of choirmaster George Guest .Kellow, Brian (December 2002). . Opera News , Vol. 67, No. 6

Keenlyside read zoology at University of Cambridge|Cambridge University , returning to St John's as a choral scholar, before studying singing at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester . After graduation, he won a Peter Moores|Peter Moores Foundation scholarship (1985) and chose to join the Royal Northern College of Music to study voice with the baritone John Cameron under whom he developed a love for lieder and German poetry. Keenlyside later said of him:

Everyone has to trust a teacher and I trusted John. It is possible to make the Faustian pact of beefing up your voice young. You might survive, but many talented young voices have been ruined. John always said "don't push it, sing your age". That can be very frustrating. You just have to trust that nature will eventually grant you heft.

Singing career

Keenlyside made his first appearance in a major operatic role in 1987 as Lescaut in Manon Lescaut (Puccini)|Manon Lescaut at the Royal Northern College of Music. Opera (magazine)|Opera magazine remarked on it being an "astonishingly mature" performance, and that he "used his warm and clear baritone with notable musicianship".Allison, John (2002). , p. 81. Opera Magazine Ltd. The Richard Tauber prize, which he won in 1986, allowed him to go to Salzburg for further study. His money ran out before he could finish his four month term there, but Rudolf Knoll, a teacher at the Salzburg Mozarteum , gave him private lessons for free. Knoll encouraged him to work on the Italian repertoire while he was still young, and introduced him to the Hilbert agency which got him singing jobs in Germany. His professional debut as a baritone came in 1988, at the Hamburg State Opera as Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro .

In 1989, Keenlyside joined the roster of Scottish Opera , where he stayed until 1994, performing as, among other roles, Marcello ( La bohème ), Danilo ( The Merry Widow ), Harlequin ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Guglielmo ( Così fan tutte ), Figaro ( Barber of Seville ), Billy Budd ( Billy Budd (opera)|Billy Budd ), Papageno ( Zauberflöte ) and Belcore ('' L'elisir d'amore ).

During this period, he made debut performances at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden , (1989 singing Silvio), English National Opera (Guglielmo), Welsh National Opera , San Francisco Opera , Geneva, Paris, and Sydney. He sang for Glyndebourne for the first time in 1993 and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1996. Keenlyside has performed at virtually all the major opera houses in the world, including the Opéra National de Paris|Paris Opera and the Metropolitan Opera .

Keenlyside sang in the world premieres of two 21st century operas, creating the roles of Prospero in Thomas Adès ' The Tempest (Adès)| The Tempest in 2004, and Winston Smith in Lorin Maazel 's 1984 (opera)|1984 in 2005 .Duchen, Jessica (12 March 2007).. The Independent

His recordings include several issues for Hyperion Records , including music of Benjamin Britten , Emmanuel Chabrier , Maurice Duruflé and Henry Purcell . He is also a featured singer on five volumes of the Hyperion Franz Schubert Edition and on the second volume of the Hyperion Robert Schumann Edition. He participated in the EMI Classics world premiere recording of The Tempest . In 2007 Sony Music released a recital disc of arias entitled Tales of Opera . Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone (2007)., p. 61

Personal life

Keenlyside is married to the Royal Ballet dancer Zenaida Yanowsky .

Operatic roles

Winston Smith in 1984 (opera)|1984 For a complete list of Keenlyside's roles see also

Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos Kesting, Jürgen (2008). Die grossen Sänger , Vol. 4, p. 2065. Hoffmann und Campe

Ubalde in Armide (Gluck)|Armide

Figaro and Fiorello in The Barber of Seville White, Michael (14 May 2003). . Daily Telegraph

Billy Budd and Donald in Billy Budd (opera)|Billy Budd

Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème

Catechiste in Briséïs Luten, C. J., (January 1996). . Opera News

Mercurio in La Calisto Gramophone (September 1995). (1996 live recording from Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie ), p. 103

Olivier in Capriccio (opera)|Capriccio Metropolitan Opera .

Morales in Carmen

Dandini in La Cenerentola Listed in the cast for the performances at the Opéra Garnier in September 1998. See , p. 82

Guglielmo in Così fan tutte Glyndebourne Festival Opera .

Abayaldos in Dom Sébastien

Posa and Flemish Deputy in Don Carlos

Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni

Belcore in '' L'elisir d'amore La Scala .

Onegin in Eugene Onegin (opera)|Eugene Onegin Jahn, George (7 March 2009). . Associated Press

Ford in Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff

Valentin and Wagner in Faust (opera)|Faust

Prisoner in Fidelio Listed in projected cast for the performances at the Royal Opera House in November-December 1990. See Opera , Vol. 41, Issues 7-12, p. 1201

Falke in Die Fledermaus Loveland, Kenneth (December 1991). , Opera (magazine)|Opera , Volume 42, p. 1479

Hamlet in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet (opera)|Hamlet

Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride

Macbeth in Macbeth (opera)|Macbeth

Gendarme/Le directeur in Les Mamelles de Tirésias Listed in the cast for the concert performances at Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Queen Elisabeth Hall (March 1995). See Opera , Vol. 45, Issues 7-12, p. 1299

Lescaut in Manon Lescaut (Puccini)|Manon Lescaut Smith, Mike (25 April 2008). . Western Mail (Wales)|Western Mail

Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro

Nightwatchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg One of his earliest roles. According to , he sang this at the Hamburg State Opera in June 1988.

Danilo in The Merry Widow Tumelty, Michael (20 September 1989). , p. 14. Glasgow Herald

Orfeo in Monteverdi's '' L'Orfeo|L'Orfeo, favola in musica Sulcas, Roslyn (28 June 1998). . New York Times

Montano in Verdi's Otello Rodney Milnes|Milnes, Rodney (November 1997) "Simon Keenlyside". Opera (magazine)|Opera , Vol. 53, Issue 1, pp. 80-87

Silvio in Pagliacci Jampol, Joshua (2010). . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-538138-6

Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande

Ned Keene in Peter Grimes Blyth, Alan (June 1996). . Gramophone , p. 23

Prince Yeletski in The Queen of Spades (opera)|The Queen of Spades Radio Canada .

Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia Monelle, Raymond (23 August 1999). . The Independent

Rigoletto in Rigoletto Evans, Eian (27 June 2010). . The Guardian

Arthus in Le Roi Arthus Tanner, Michael (9 September 2000). . The Spectator

Wolfram in Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser , p. 42. Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts

Prospero in The Tempest

Giorgio Germont in Traviata Bayerische Staatsoper (2009)

Steersman in Tristan und Isolde

Ping in Turandot Royal Opera House .

Andrei in Prokofiev's War and Peace (opera)|War and Peace Rupert Christiansen|Christiansen, Rupert (1 November 2001). . Daily Telegraph

Wozzeck in Wozzeck

Papageno in Die Zauberflöte

Honours and awards

1986: Richard Tauber Prize

1987: Winner of the Walther Grüner International Lieder competition

1990: First Prize, Elly Ameling competitionKennedy, Michael (1994). , p. 77. Carcanet. ISBN 1-85754-085-9

1994: Singer of the Year Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society Royal Philharmonic Society .

2003: CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours list "for services to Music" BBC News (29 October 2003).

2004: Opera Award for the category Best Baritone ( Don Giovanni , Théâtre de la Monnaie ) from the Italian magazine ''L'Opera . L'Opera (December 2004)

2004: XII Premios de la Crítica award to Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in Hamlet (opera)|Hamlet) for the best male and female singers in a staged opera. Avui (20 October 2004) , p. 46

2005: Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording Marriage of Figaro Associated Press (13 February 2005). . USA Today

2006: Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, for his work in the ROH production of 1984 and ENO's Billy Budd (opera)|Billy Budd in 2005. Laurence Olivier Awards (26 February 2006). , www.olivierawards.com He was a nominee for this award in 2004 for The Royal Opera's Hamlet and Die Zauberflote . Associated Press (15 January 2004)

2007: Echo (music award)|ECHO Klassik Award , Singer of the Year (male) Merkur (magazine)|Merkur (22 October 2007).

2007: XV Premios de la Crítica award for Best Recital Artist ABC (newspaper)|ABC (11 October 2007).

2007: Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone Award, Best of Category (Recital) for his debut recital album Tales of Opera Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone (2007)., p. 61

2010: Gramophone Award, Best of Category (Contemporary) for the CD The Tempest (opera)|The Tempest , singing Prospero Gramophone (30 September 2010).

2011: Musical America 's Vocalist of the Year awardWaleson, Heidi (2011). . Musical America

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Honours and awards

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