Introduction
Simon Keenlyside received a knighthood in the 2018 Birthday Honours and, in 2017, was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersänger by the Wiener Staatsoper. In 2011 he was named Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year, in 2007 he won the ECHO Klassik Male Singer of the Year Award and, in 2006, he was recipient of the Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in Opera.
Sir Simon’s 2018/19 season includes the title roles in Don Giovanni and Rigoletto at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Germont Père La traviata and Ford Falstaff at the Wiener Staatsoper; Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro for the Royal Opera and Wolfram Tannhäuser at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. On the concert platform, Sir Simon will perform with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst; the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Jérémie Rhorer and with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus under Ryan Wigglesworth.
A renowned recitalist, Sir Simon appears regularly in the world’s major recital venues, this season, giving recitals in Vancouver, Quebec, Washington DC, Atlanta, Schenectady, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Vienna and London in partnership with Malcolm Martineau, Emanuel Ax, Natalia Katyukova and Julius Drake.
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19:00 19 Jul 2019 Royal Opera House, LONDON
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Le nozze di Figaro
Figaro: Christian Gerhaher
Susanna: Joelle Harvey
Count Almaviva: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Countess Almaviva: Julia Kleiter
Cherubino: Kangmin Justin Kim
Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro
Marcellina: Diana Montague
Basilio: Jean-Paul Fouchecourt
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner -
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18:00 21 Jul 2019 Royal Opera House, LONDON
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Le nozze di Figaro
Figaro: Christian Gerhaher
Susanna: Joelle Harvey
Count Almaviva: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Countess Almaviva: Julia Kleiter
Cherubino: Kangmin Justin Kim
Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro
Marcellina: Diana Montague
Basilio: Jean-Paul Fouchecourt
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner -
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19:30 26 Jul 2019 Wigmore Hall, LONDON
Baritone: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Piano: Matthew Regan
Woodwind: Howard McGill
Trombone: Gordon Campbell
Double bass: Richard Pryce
Drums: Mike Smith -
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18:00 06 Sep 2019 Wiener Staatsoper, VIENNA
GIUSEPPE VERDI Don Carlo
Conductor: Jonathan Darlington
Philipp II: René Pape
Don Carlo: Fabio Sartori
Posa: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Grand Inquisitor: Dmitry Ulyanov
Elisabeth: Anja Harteros
Eboli: Elena Zhidkova -
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18:30 09 Sep 2019 Wiener Staatsoper, VIENNA
GIUSEPPE VERDI Don Carlo
Conductor: Jonathan Darlington
Philipp II: René Pape
Don Carlo: Fabio Sartori
Posa: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Grand Inquisitor: Dmitry Ulyanov
Elisabeth: Anja Harteros
Eboli: Elena Zhidkova -
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18:30 12 Sep 2019 Wiener Staatsoper, VIENNA
GIUSEPPE VERDI Don Carlo
Conductor: Jonathan Darlington
Philipp II: René Pape
Don Carlo: Fabio Sartori
Posa: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Grand Inquisitor: Dmitry Ulyanov
Elisabeth: Anja Harteros
Eboli: Elena Zhidkova -
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19:00 22 Sep 2019 Bayerische Staatsoper, MUNICH
GIUSEPPE VERDI La traviata
Conductor: Jader Bignamini
Violetta: Venera Gimadieva
Flora Bervoix: Niamh O’sullivan
Annina: Corinna Scheurle
Alfredo Germont: Charles Castronovo
Giorgio Germont: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Gaston: Manuel Günther
Baron Douphol: Christian Rieger
Marquis d’Obigny: Boris Prygl
Doktor Grenvil: Martin Snell -
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19:00 25 Sep 2019 Bayerische Staatsoper, MUNICH
GIUSEPPE VERDI La traviata
Conductor: Jader Bignamini
Violetta: Venera Gimadieva
Flora Bervoix: Niamh O’sullivan
Annina: Corinna Scheurle
Alfredo Germont: Charles Castronovo
Giorgio Germont: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Gaston: Manuel Günther
Baron Douphol: Christian Rieger
Marquis d’Obigny: Boris Prygl
Doktor Grenvil: Martin Snell -
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18:00 29 Sep 2019 Bayerische Staatsoper, MUNICH
GIUSEPPE VERDI La traviata
Conductor: Jader Bignamini
Violetta: Venera Gimadieva
Flora Bervoix: Niamh O’sullivan
Annina: Corinna Scheurle
Alfredo Germont: Charles Castronovo
Giorgio Germont: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Gaston: Manuel Günther
Baron Douphol: Christian Rieger
Marquis d’Obigny: Boris Prygl
Doktor Grenvil: Martin Snell -
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19:00 02 Oct 2019 Bayerische Staatsoper, MUNICH
GIUSEPPE VERDI La traviata
Conductor: Jader Bignamini
Violetta: Venera Gimadieva
Flora Bervoix: Niamh O’sullivan
Annina: Corinna Scheurle
Alfredo Germont: Charles Castronovo
Giorgio Germont: Sir Simon Keenlyside
Gaston: Manuel Günther
Baron Douphol: Christian Rieger
Marquis d’Obigny: Boris Prygl
Doktor Grenvil: Martin Snell -
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19:00 18 Oct 2019 Berwaldhallen, STOCKHOLM
EDWARD ELGAR Dream of Gerontius Op. 38
Alto: Ann Hallenberg
Tenor: Andrew Staples
Bass: Sir Simon Keenlyside