The following are recordings that Simon is rumoured to have scheduled.
If you have any more information on these or any other recordings, please do contact us on webmaster@simonkeenlyside.info
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The ROH production of 'Twin Spirits" taking place on 20 December 2007 is to be filmed for DVD, international television and general release in cinemas. Click here for details
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A new work (to mark Orfeo’s 400th anniversary) by film-makers The Brothers Quay that combines film, music and contemporary dance. “She, so beloved” is choreographed by Kim Brandstrup and features singer Simon Keenlyside and dancer Zenaida Yanowsky. The piece is co-commissioned with Capture and presented in association with The Culture Company and Leeds City Art Gallery, Thursday 11 October 10:00 until 31 December 2007. Free admission.
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The eagerly anticipated Operetta CD by Simon and Angelika Kirchschlager will be released on the 17th August. It’s title is "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" (All my heart is yours – from Lehar's " Das Land des Lächelns") and it will contain highlights from the Viennese operetta ( Lehar, Kalman, Strauß, von Suppé ).
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Article in Gramophone, 20 March 2007 (James Inverne). EMI to release Adés’s The Tempest
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2777&newssectionID=1
Gramophone has learned of a deal between the BBC and EMI Classics to record and release Thomas Adés's opera The Tempest. The work, with a libretto by Meredith Oakes, has enjoyed critical and commercial success both at London's Royal Opera House, where it was premiered in 2004 and is currently being revived, and at the Santa Fe Festival, in Strasbourg and in Copenhagen. Of its latest Covent Garden revival, one critic commented that it was that rarest of things, a contemporary opera that is genuinely "back by popular demand."
The BBC are to record the ROH revival for broadcast and EMI will issue it, probably later this year. When the BBC televised the original run, tenor Ian Bostridge (who plays Caliban) was indisposed and an understudy sang his role. It will be Bostridge, though, alongside fellow original cast members Simon Keenlyside (Prospero) and Cynthia Sieden (Ariel) and newcomer Kate Royal (Miranda), who will feature on the EMI set. Adés, Royal and Bostridge are all signed to EMI Classics.
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Simon's next recording with Sony is an operetta CD with Angelika Kirchschlager, due for release August 2007.
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Opera Rara are releasing Dom Sebastien in the UK, March 2007.
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Harmonia Mundi (France) are releasing a DVD of the Rene Jacobs / Trisha Brown production of L'Orfeo on 26 October 2006, Germany on 17 November, and in the UK on 27 November 2006
Here is what HM say about it: The fusion of dance and opera. First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and René Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement – described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen’. Also includes ‘Behind the scenes of L’Orfeo’, a 52-minute documentary on the René Jacobs-Trisha Brown production.
· The tracklist of SK's new CD of arias (released 15 September 2006) has just been revealed by Sony
http://www.sonybmgclassical.de/artists2.php?iA=7&artist=328456&product=82876884822
Tracklist: Tales of Opera
Die Zauberflöte: Mozart
01 Papageno’s Act 2 aria “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen”
Zaide: Mozart
02 Allazim’s Act 1 aria “Nur mutig, mein Herze, versuche dein Glück”
Don Giovanni: Mozart
03 Act 1 aria “Finch' han dal vino”
04 Act 2 serenade “Deh vieni alla finestra”
L'Arlesiana: Francesco Cilea
05 Metifio’s Act 1 aria “Come due tizzi accesi”
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Rossini
06 Figaro’s Act 1 cavatina “ Largo al factotum della città”
Guillaume Tell: Rossini
07 Tell’s Act 3 aria “Mon fils, que je t'embrasse? Sois immobile”
I, Pagliacci: Leoncavallo
08 Prologue, Tonio “Si può, si può”
Hérodiade: Massenet
09 Herodes Act 2 aria “Vision fugitive”
Hamlet: Thomas
10 Hamlet’s Act 2 drinking song “O vin, dissipe la tristesse”
I puritani: Bellini
11 Riccardo’s Act 1 aria “Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei”
Tannhäuser: Wagner
12 Wolfram’s Act 3 song of the evenstar “Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung deckt die Lande? O, du mein holder Abendstern”
Pique Dame: Tchaikovsky
13 Yeletsky’s Act 2 aria “Als deine Liebe du mir schenktest”
La traviata: Verdi
14 Germont’s Act 2 aria “Di provenza il mar, il suol chi dal cor ti cancellò”
Don Carlo: Verdi
15 The death of Posa “Per me giunto è il dì supreme”
Un ballo in maschera: Verdi
16 Renato’s aria “Alzati... Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima”
· From a BR (Bavarian Broadcast) Orchestra newspaper “Have you heard that 2006 will see two cd-productions pending with the two most interesting singers of the moment (Ulf Schirmer conducting)? As a baritone who acts as musically as he does intelligently, Simon Keenlyside is no longer an insider tip. But as he detests any star hype and prefers planting trees on his farm to working on his image he still is much more popular on the British Isles than with us. He set global standards with his interpretations of Don Giovanni, Papageno, Lescaut, Onegin, Pelléas or Billy Budd. The last discographic scoop he landed was in 2005 as Count Almaviva in René Jacobs's recording of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro that caused a sensation; together with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Keenlyside will introduce some of his showpiece-roles now.” Rumour is that this CD will be available in September 2006
· The concert performances of Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal (Donizetti), at Covent Garden on 10 and 13 September 2005 were recorded by Opera Rara, to be released on CD in February 2007.
· Pelleas et Melisande, with SK as Pelleas. As part of the Chandos 'Opera in English' series. (Source; BBC Music magazine, November 2005)