Born in London on August 3, 1959, Simon Keenlyside made his baritone debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper in The Marriage of Figaro (Count Almaviva). Simon Keenlyside has performed on major international opera stages such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Munich and Vienna Operas in roles such as Prospero (The Tempest), Posa (Don Carlo), Germont Father (La Traviata), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Almaviva as well as the title roles of Don Giovanni, Eugène Onéguine, Pelléas et Mélisande, Wozzeck, Billy Budd, Hamlet, Macbeth and Rigoletto.