Simon Bailey
Bass baritone
© Angelika Tippmann
Simon Bailey, a former member of our ensemble and winner of the 2018 Wales Theatre Award, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where his most recent roles were Fra Melitone (La Forza del destino), Budivoj (Dalibor), Peter (Hänsel und Gretel), Mr. Redburn (Billy Budd), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) and Captain Balstrode (Peter Grimes), to step in at short notice to sing Orest in the opening night of the new production of Elektra. This British artist enjoyed great success at Oper Frankfurt in the past with roles including Mozart’s Leporello, Don Giovanni and Figaro, Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Klingsor (Parsifal), Achilla (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Gelone (Cesti's L’Orontea), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola) and the title role in Bluebeard’s Castle. He returns to the Tirol Festival in Erl this summer for the Wanderer in a new Siegfried, following on from wonderful Rheingolds and Die Walküres. Recent engagements have included David Strom in the world premiere of Kris Defoort‘s The Time of Our Singing at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Judge of the Dead in Dessau’s Verurteilung des Lukullus / Lucullus’ Condemnation at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, Achilla at the Theater an der Wien, Klingsor at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Wotan (Die Walküre) in Shanghai, Kutusow (War and Peace) at Welsh National Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Leporello at Hessen’s State Opera in Wiesbaden and Welsh National Opera and roles in the late Harrison Birtwistle’s The Mask of Orpheus at English National Opera in London. Simon Bailey, who also enjoys a busy concert career, has also sung Méphistophélès (La damnation de Faust), Siroco (L’étoile), Nicanor / Satan (Félicien David’s Herculanum), Figaro, Leporello and the Four Villains in The Tales of Hoffmann at theatres including the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala Milan, the Theater an der Wien, Oper Vlaanderen, Theater Basel and the Glyndebourne and Wexford festivals.