Simon Keenlyside

Quick Facts

Full Name	Simon Keenlyside
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Aug 3, 1959(1959-08-03)
Age	65
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	London
Horoscope	Leo

Simon Keenlyside Biography

Simon Keenlyside is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on August 3, 1959 in London, United Kingdom. Sir Simon Keenlyside CBE (born 3 August 1959) is a British baritone who has enjoyed an active career in the world of performing in concert and opera from the mid-1980s onwards.

The year was 1989 when Keenlyside was added to the cast of Scottish Opera which is where he continued until 1994, appearing as, among others, Marcello (La boheme), Danilo (The Merry Widow), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Figaro (Barber of Seville), Billy Budd (Billy Budd), Papageno (Zauberflote) and Belcore (L’elisir of Amore).

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.

In 2010 Keenlyside sang the role of Rodrigo in a new production of Don Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Roberto Alagna to critical acclaim.

In the same time frame during this time, he sang his debut at Covent Garden’s 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 with Glyndebourne his first performance in 1993. He began his career at Metropolitan Opera at New York in 1996. Keenlyside has performed at nearly every major opera house across the globe which includes those of the Paris Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

Simon Keenlyside Net Worth

Simon Keenlyside is one of the richest Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Keenlyside 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Keenlyside was a zoologist during his time at Cambridge University, returning to St John’s as a choral scholar. He then pursued a degree in voice in the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. After graduating, he received an Peter Moores Foundation scholarship (1985) and opted to enroll in the Royal Northern College of Music to study voice with baritone John Cameron under whom he was able to develop a love of the lieder genre and German poetry. Keenlyside later wrote about him:

Keenlyside was the first actor to make an appearance in an operatic performance in 1987, as Lescaut Manon The Lescaut Opera at the Royal Northern College of Music. Opera magazine wrote about it to be an “astonishingly mature” performance, and also that the actor “used his warm and clear baritone with notable musicianship”. It was the Richard Tauber prize, which was awarded in 1986, enabled him to travel to Salzburg to continue his studies. The money was exhausted before he was able to finish the four-month period However, Rudolf Knoll, a teacher at the Salzburg Mozarteum offered him private lessons at no cost. Knoll advised him to concentrate in the Italian repertoire when he still young and introduced his to the Hilbert agency, which helped him get singing positions in Germany. His debut as a professional baritone took place in 1988 in Hamburg State Opera. Hamburg State Opera as Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro.

Keenlyside sang in the world premieres of two 21st-century operas, creating the roles of Prospero in Thomas Adès’ The Tempest in 2004, and Winston Smith in Lorin Maazel’s 1984 in 2005. He later participated in the EMI Classics world premiere recording of The Tempest.

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Who is Simon Keenlyside Dating?

According to our records, Simon Keenlyside married to Zenaida Yanowsky. As of December 1, 2023, Simon Keenlyside’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Simon Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Simon Keenlyside celebrates birthday on August 3 of every year.

Is Simon Keenlyside still singing?

Keenlyside, 57, is finally back in action , and is preparing to sing the title role in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday after canceling his last two Met engagements.

How old is Simon Keenlyside?

62 years (August 3, 1959)

Who is Simon Keenlyside married to?

Zenaida Yanowsky