Simon Keenlyside
Simon Keenlyside is a baritone with an international career, performing a wide range of operatic roles ranging from the Baroque to world premieres. He has recorded for major labels, including Sony Classical, EMI, and Hyperion.
Keenlyside was born on August 3, 1959, in London. His father was a noted violinist who performed with the Aeolian Quartet, and his maternal grandfather was the violinist Leonard Hirsch. Keenlyside sang as a boy chorister with the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge University, attending the choir's boarding school. He attended Cambridge as a zoology student but was drawn back to singing, serving as a choral scholar at St. John's. Keenlyside went on to the Royal College of Music in Manchester on a Peter Moores Foundation scholarship, studying with John Cameron. Steeped in German lieder, he also sang Lescaut in Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut while still a student, and his career has been divided between opera and song. His professional debut came in 1988 at the Hamburg State Opera in Germany, and the following year, he appeared at Covent Garden in London in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. In the early '90s, he was a member of the cast of the Scottish Opera. Keenlyside made his recording debut in 1994, appearing on the album An 1815 Schubertiad - II in the Hyperion Schubert Edition series. His solo debut came two years later with the EMI release Richard Strauss: Lieder Recital, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.
Since the mid-'90s, Keenlyside has been seen on top operatic stages in Britain, continental Europe, and the U.S. In New York, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1996 as Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, and in the '90s, he appeared at La Scala in Milan in several Mozart roles. Keenlyside has an unusually wide-ranging repertory that includes two operas of which he appeared in the world premieres, as Prospero in Thomas Adès' The Tempest in 2004 and as Winston Smith in Lorin Maazel's 1984 in 2005. He frequently performs in orchestral concerts and has had a long career as a lieder singer, making four more appearances in Hyperion's Schubert series and issuing other important vocal albums, including 2011's Songs of War, again with Martineau as accompanist. Keenlyside's versatility was shown by the 2014 Chandos release Something's Gotta Give, featuring selections from the Broadway musical repertory. In 2023, Keenlyside released the album Jonathan Dove: In Exile with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on the Lyrita label.
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Diskografie
12 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Songs of War (Mélodies de Bridge, Finzi, Ireland, Vaughan Williams etc.)
Französische Mélodies und Kunstlieder - Erschienen bei Sony Music UK am 04.11.2011
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Something's Gotta Give
Simon Keenlyside, Scarlett Strallen, The BBC Concert Orchestra, David Charles Abell
Musical - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.11.2014
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Christiane Oelze, David Kübler, Simon Keenlyside, Chor Der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.07.1999
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Tales Of Opera
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 01.09.2006
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Christiane Oelze, David Kübler, Simon Keenlyside, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Chor Der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.07.1999
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Wigmore Hall Live - Simon Keenlyside & Malcolm Martineau
Simon Keenlyside, Malcolm Martineau
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Wigmore Hall Live am 23.11.2009
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Christiane Oelze, Simon Keenlyside, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.07.1999
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Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Les meilleurs extraits en anglais)
Opernauszüge - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.09.2008
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Jonathan Dove: In Exile
Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gergely Madaras
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Lyrita am 03.03.2023
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Schumann: Dichterliebe; Brahms: Lieder
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 17.09.2009
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Something's Gotta Give
David Charles Abell, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside, Scarlett Strallen
Mélodies - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.11.2014
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Schumann: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2
Simon Keenlyside, Graham Johnson
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.01.1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo