Simon Bailey

The English bass-baritone Simon Bailey trained at Clare College, Cambridge, the RNCM Manchester, and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. From 2002 to 2015, he was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble. Bailey sings a broad repertoire of more than 100 roles, ranging from Handel and Vivaldi to Thomas Adès and Kris Defoort and performs such parts as Mozart’s Leporello and Figaro, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the villains from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Méphistophélès from Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust, Wagner’s Wotan, Wanderer and Klingsor, Kutuzov from Prokofiev’s War and Peace, and Captain Balstrode from Britten’s Peter Grimes. He has made guest appearances at Welsh National Opera, London’s Royal Opera House, Brussels’s Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, La Scala in Milan, the Tyrolean Festival Erl, and the Glyndebourne Festival, as well as in Antwerp, Basel, Stuttgart, Strasbourg, Wiesbaden, and Vienna.

July 2023