"In his own words"
Interviews with Simon Keenlyside
Click the list below to read interviews with, and articles about, Simon Keenlyside:
Those marked *** are of particular interest
There are two interviews that are exclusive to this site: Click the photos below to access these interviews
Munich interview, 27 July 2004 London Interview, 14 June 2006
- 2008 April 25, IC Wales: Welsh Singer competition
- 2008 April 2, Altamusica : Wozzeck ***
- 2008 March, forumopera translation: Wozzeck ***
- 2008 March, French Opéra magazine: Wozzeck ***
- 2008 February 28, Paris Opera website [English]: Wozzeck
- 2008 February 28, Paris Opera website [French]: Wozzeck
- 2008 February, Dresden Opera magazine: Faure's Requiem at Staatskapelle
- 2008 January 24, Musicalcriticism.com: Die Zauberfloete & Don Carlo ***
- 2008 January 8, The Lady magazine "Down to Earth"
- 2007 December 11, Radio Stephendom (with Angelika Kirchschlager)
- 2007 December, Opera News "Simon Says" ***
- 2007 November, Metropolitan Opera Radio (Sirius): Le nozze di Figaro
- 2007 November 15, New York Met: An evening with Anja Harteros and SK
- 2007 September 9, the Guardian "Call of the wild" ***
- 2007 September 1, Crescendo magazine (with Angelika Kirchschlager)
- 2007 issue 4, Rondo magazine
- 2007 September, MusicOMH.com: Iphigenie en Tauride
- 2007 July / August, Musik und Theatre magazine
- 2007 July / August, Opernglas "Bit on the side" (with Angelika Kirchschlager)
- 2007 July 14 & 15, Suddeutches Zeitung
- 2007 June, Der Zuerker Oberlander
- 2007 June, Solothurner Zeitung "My Week in Zurich"
- 2007 May 18, Crescendo magazine: Pelleas et Melisande
- 2007 May 16-22, Time Out "Simon says..." ***
- 2007 May 6, the Sunday Times "Send in the clown"
- 2007 March 13, BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" interview (with Ian Bostridge): The Tempest ***
- 2007 March 12, the Independent "The sound and the fury" ***
- 2007 March, Opera magazine "Opera vs lieder" [extract]
- 2007 February, Der Neue Merker
- 2007 January 16, Der Standard
- 2007 January, Prolog 105 [Vienna Staatsoper magazine]
- 2006 December, Gramophone "Diary: Rural reality of life on a Welsh farm"
- 2006 November 26, Welt am Sonntag
- 2006 October 26, BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" (with Malcolm Martineau) ***
- 2006 October, Spotlight magazine "English lesson with Simon"
- 2006 October, Fono Forum "The slow fuse"
- 2006 September, Saisonklange magazine "Baritone without shenanigans"
- 2006 no 4, Rondo magazine "Too much Mozart is frustrating"
- 2006 September, Opernwelt "From the spirit of language"
- 2006 September, Das Opernglas "I am enjoying a great privilege" ***
- 2006 August 28, Edinburgh Festival "SK in conversation" ***
- 2006 June 23, Munich Abendzeitung "Munich is a Wagner town"
- 2006 June 14, Royal Opera House (Clore) "SK in conversation" ***
- 2006 May 16, Tages-Anzeiger "Don Giovanni, a mosquito"
- 2006 March, Buehne: Salzburg Pelleas et Melisande
- 2006 Lent term (no 47), Cambridge Alumnus Magazine (CAM) ***
- 2006 January 26, Der Standard : Salzburg Pelleas et Melisande
- 2005 December 1, BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" + John Tomlinson & Timothy Robinson: Billy Budd ***
- 2005, Festspiele "Living out of the suitcase"
- 2005 February 16, Whats On "Born into music"
- 2005 January / February, Opera Now "The performing voice" ***
- 2005 January 2, Austrian Radio ORF "Apropos Oper"
- 2004 October 12, BBC Radio 3 "Voices" ***
- 2005, "Der Stille Gruene Star" - German
- 2005, "The silent green star" - English
- 2004 December, BBC Music Magazine, "Not just for Christmas" [extracts]: life as a choirboy
- 2004 July 27, IBS (Friends of Munich Opera) interview ****
- 2004 May, Der Neue Merker
- 2004, "Une experience": Interview about Winterreise - French
- 2004, "Een experiment": interview about Winterreise - Flemish
- 2004, "An experience" interview about Winterrise - English
- 2004 February 2, Mundo Classico "La ultima metamorfosis de Proteo" - Spanish
- 2004 February 2, Mundo Clasico "Protean Metamorphosis" - English ***
- 2003 May 5, the Times (with Simon Russell Beale) ***
- 2003, Opera News [extract]: the caste of Don Giovanni dining at a Salzburg restarant
- 2003 May 24, BBC Radio 3: Hamlet
- 2003 May 2: The Guardian "Outrageous fortune": Hamlet at CG ***
- 2003, BBC Radio 3 "CD Review": Hamlet ***
- 2003 February 10, BBC Radio 3: Papageno
- 2002 September 23, Austrian Radio (Oe1) - German
- 2002 September 23, Austrian Radio (Oe1) - English
- 2001 February, Klassik Heute ***
- 2000 September 20, the Telegraph "Opera's man of mystery" ***
- 2000 April / June, La Monnaie magazine - French
- 2000 April / June, La Monnaie magazine - English
- 2000 January, Das Opernglas "Charmer with principles" ***
- 2000 Festspiele magazine "No society tiger" ***
- 1998 December 31, Der Tagesspiegel "SK triumphs as anti-star" ***
- 1998, from the documentary "La dernier chant de Orphee": Trisha Brown's Orfeo
- 1996 December 14, Opera News "Notebook" ***
- 1996 June, Gramophone "Taking off" ***