New Zealand-born Keith Lewis is one of the world’s busiest tenors. He appears regularly throughout the UK, Europe and North America with conductors who have included Boulez, Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Dutoit, Gardiner, Giulini, Haitink, Marriner, Mehta, Menuhin, Muti, Ozawa, Previn, Salonen, Sawallisch, Sinopoli, Slatkin, Solti and Svetlanov.

Keith Lewis received his early musical training in Canterbury, New Zealand. His first professional engagements included tenor soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, and touring the country for the Music Federation of New Zealand in the New Opera Quartet. Since leaving New Zealand for London in 1974, his career has involved opera, concert work and recording, all receiving high critical acclaim.

His Mozart roles have taken him to opera houses around the world. Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paris, Madrid, San Francisco), Così fan tutte (Glyndebourne, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chicago, San Diego, Zurich, Bordeaux, Rome), Die Zauberflöte (Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paris, Zurich), Il Seraglio (Glyndebourne, Paris), La Clemenza di Tito (Paris, Bordeaux, Stuttgart, Frankfurt), Idomeneo (Glyndebourne, Athens, Paris Bastille).

Other stage performances include Iphigenie en Tauride (Berlin Staatsoper, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt), Il Barbiere de Siviglia and I Capuleti ed I Montecchi (Covent Garden), La Damnation de Faust (Hamburg, Stuttgart), Maria Stuarda (Monte Carlo), Gluck’s Armide (Hamburg), Lulu (Berlin Staatsoper) and Semele (La Fenice).

Recordings include Mozart's Requiem (Sony/Giulini and EMI/Welser-Möst), Messiah (Decca/Solti), Don Giovanni (EMI/Haitink), Mahler's Symphony No.8, Das Lied von der Erde, Das Paradies und die Peri (DG/Sinopoli), La Damnation de Faust (DG/Chung), Bach's Mass in B minor (Sony/Guilini), Beethoven's Symphony No.9 (DG/Guilini), Salome (Sony/Mehta), Berlioz's Requiem (Bertini), Haydn's Masses (EMI/ Marriner), Berlioz's Requiem, Te Deum and lelio (Denon/Inbal) and Lieder with Michael Houstoun (Trust).

Recent and upcoming engagements include Die Tote Stadt in the Brisbane Biennial, The Makropulos Case in Toulouse, Britten’s War Requiem in Rome, Mendelssohn’s St Paul in Vienna, L’incoronazione di Poppea in Stuttgart and Fidelio in Venice.

Source: Trust CDs.com

Return to Previous Page