Simon Keenlyside
Sir Simon Keenlyside 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.[1] When he was eight, he was enrolled in St John's College School, a boarding school for the boy 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.[2]
He later attended
Singing career
Keenlyside made his first appearance in a major operatic role in 1987 as Lescaut in
In 1989, Keenlyside joined the roster of
During this period, he made debut performances at the
Keenlyside sang in the world premieres of two 21st-century operas, creating the roles of Prospero in
In 2010 Keenlyside sang the role of Rodrigo in a new production of
Keenlyside added the role of Golaud in
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. In 2007 Sony Music released a recital disc of arias entitled Tales of Opera.[7]
Personal life
Keenlyside is married to the
Operatic roles
- Winston Smith in 1984[4][8]
- Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos[9]
- Ubalde in Armide[10]
- Figaro and Fiorello in The Barber of Seville[11]
- Billy Budd and Donald in Billy Budd[12]
- Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème[12]
- Catechiste in Briséïs[13]
- Mercurio in La Calisto[14]
- Olivier in Capriccio[15]
- Morales in Carmen[16]
- Dandini in La Cenerentola[17]
- Guglielmo in Così fan tutte[18]
- Abayaldos in Dom Sébastien[12]
- Posa and Flemish Deputy in Don Carlos[12]
- Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni[18]
- Belcore in L'elisir d'amore[10]
- Onegin in Eugene Onegin[19]
- Ford in Falstaff[12]
- Valentin and Wagner in Faust[12]
- Prisoner in Fidelio[20]
- Falke in Die Fledermaus[21]
- Hamlet in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet[12]
- Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride[12]
- Macbeth in Macbeth[4]
- Gendarme/Le directeur in Les Mamelles de Tirésias[22]
- Lescaut in Manon Lescaut[23]
- Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro[10]
- Nightwatchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg[24]
- Danilo in The Merry Widow[25]
- Orfeo in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, favola in musica[26]
- Montano in Verdi's Otello[16]
- Silvio in Pagliacci[27]
- Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande[12]
- Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande
- Ned Keene in Peter Grimes[28]
- Prince Yeletski in The Queen of Spades[29]
- Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia[30]
- Rigoletto in Rigoletto[31]
- Arthus in Le Roi Arthus[32]
- Wolfram in Tannhäuser[33]
- Prospero in The Tempest[4]
- Giorgio Germont in Traviata[34]
- Steersman in Tristan und Isolde[16]
- Ping in Turandot[12]
- Andrei in Prokofiev's War and Peace[35]
- Wozzeck in Wozzeck[4]
- Papageno in Die Zauberflöte[10]
Honours and awards
- 1986: Richard Tauber Prize[1]
- 1987: Winner of the Walther Gruner International Lieder competition[citation needed]
- 1990: First Prize, Elly Ameling competition[36]
- 1994: Singer of the Year Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society[37]
- 2003: Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to Music[38][39]
- 2004: Opera Award for the category Best Baritone (Théâtre de la Monnaie) from the Italian magazine L'Opera.[40]
- 2004: XII Premios de la Crítica award to Simon Keenlyside and Hamlet for the best male and female singers in a staged opera.[41]
- 2005: Marriage of Figaro[42]
- 2006: Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, for his work in the ROH production of 1984 and ENO's Billy Budd in 2005.[43] He was a nominee for this award in 2004 for The Royal Opera's Hamlet and Die Zauberflote.[44]
- 2007: ECHO Klassik Award, Singer of the Year (male)[45]
- 2007: XV Premios de la Crítica award for Best Recital Artist[46]
- 2007: Gramophone Award, Best of Category (Recital) for his debut recital album Tales of Opera[7]
- 2010: Gramophone Award, Best of Category (Contemporary) for the CD The Tempest, singing Prospero[47]
- 2011: Musical America's Vocalist of the Year award[48]
- 2017: Austrian Kammersänger[49]
- 2018: Knighted in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to Music[50]
References
- ^ a b c d e Wroe, Nicholas (8 September 2007). "The call of the wild". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
- ^ a b Kellow, Brian (December 2002)."The Poetry of Risk". Opera News, Vol. 67, No. 6
- ^ Allison, John (2002). Baritones in Opera: Profiles of Fifteen Great Baritones, p. 81. Opera Magazine Ltd.
- ^ a b c d e Duchen, Jessica (12 March 2007)."Simon Keenlyside: The sound and the fury". The Independent
- ^ James Inverne, "EMI to release Adés’s The Tempest". Gramophone, 20 March 2007.
- ^ Tommasini, Anthony. "A Winning, Cautious 'Don Carlo' at the Met". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ a b Gramophone (2007).Awards Special Issue, p. 61.
- ^ For a complete list of Keenlyside's roles see also List of roles at www.simonkeenlyside.info
- ^ Kesting, Jürgen (2008). Die grossen Sänger, Vol. 4, p. 2065. Hoffmann und Campe (in German)
- ^ a b c d La Scala. Archives: Keenlyside (subscription required)
- Daily Telegraph
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Royal Opera House. Archives: Keenlyside
- ^ Luten, C. J., (January 1996). Recording Review: Chabrier's Briseis by Rodgers, Harries, Padmore, Keenlyside, George and the BBC Scottish Orchestra and Chamber Chorus under Jean Yves Ossonce. Opera News (subscription required)
- Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie), p. 103
- ^ Metropolitan Opera. Archives: Keenlyside, Simon (Baritone)
- ^ a b c Milnes, Rodney (November 1997) "Simon Keenlyside". Opera, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pp. 80–87
- Opéra Garnier in September 1998. See L'Événement du jeudi, Issues 718–725, p. 82 (in French)
- ^ a b Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Archives: Keenlyside
- ^ Jahn, George (7 March 2009). "Splendid music, but the staging – brrr!". Associated Press
- ^ 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
- ^ Loveland, Kenneth (December 1991). Review: Die Fledermaus, Welsh National Opera, New Theatre, Cardiff, Opera, Volume 42, p. 1479
- ^ 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
- ^ Smith, Mike (25 April 2008). "From Turandot to tree-planting with opera singer Simon Keenlyside". Western Mail
- ^ One of his earliest roles. According to simonkeenlyside.info, he sang this at the Hamburg State Opera in June 1988.
- Glasgow Herald
- New York Times
- ISBN 0-19-538138-6
- ^ Blyth, Alan (June 1996). "Taking off" Archived 30 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Gramophone, p. 23
- (in French)
- ^ Monelle, Raymond (23 August 1999). "Edinburgh: This tragic no man's land". The Independent
- ^ Evans, Eian (27 June 2010). "Review: Rigoletto, Millennium Centre, Cardiff". The Guardian
- ^ Tanner, Michael (9 September 2000). "Brighter shades of pale". The Spectator
- ^ Western European stages, Volume 15 (2003), p. 42. Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts
- Bayerische Staatsoper (2009) Cast list: La Traviata, 12 June 2009 Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
- Daily Telegraph
- ISBN 1-85754-085-9
- ^ Royal Philharmonic Society. Past RPS Music Awards Winners: Singers
- ^ BBC News (29 October 2003). "TV chef collects MBE"
- ^ "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 8.
- ^ L'Opera (December 2004)
- ^ Avui (20 October 2004) "Siegfried, millor òpera de la temporada anterior" Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, p. 46 (in Catalan)
- ^ Associated Press (13 February 2005). "Pre-telecast Grammy Award winners". USA Today
- ^ Laurence Olivier Awards (26 February 2006). "Keenlyside wins opera prize" Archived 7 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, www.olivierawards.com
- ^ Associated Press (15 January 2004)"Complete list of nominees for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Awards" (subscription required)
- ^ merkur-online.de (22 October 2007). "Echo Klassik für Elina Garanca, Keenlyside und Jansons" (in German)
- ^ ABC (11 October 2007). "«Boulevard Solitude», de Henze, se impone en los premios de la crítica" (in Spanish)
- ^ Gramophone (30 September 2010). "Gramophone Awards 2010 unveiled"
- ^ Waleson, Heidi (2011). "The 2011 Honorees: Simon Keenlyside, Vocalist of the Year". Musical America
- ^ "Simon Keenlyside wurde österreichischer Kammersänger". Wiener Staatsoper (in German). Vienna. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ Birthday Honours lists 2018
External links
- simonkeenlyside.info – Biography, schedule, discography, media database
- Television interview with Simon Keenlyside on C Music TV
- Simon Keenlyside on Askonas Holt Artists' Management