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| "Simon Keenlyside's Budd is an extraordinary achievement, noble and moving," wrote Andrew Clements in a review for the Guardian of the Chandos recording of Britten's Billy Budd. "According to Paul Reeve, director of opera education at the Royal Opera House, a recent schools audience for Brittens Billy Budd went bananas at the production, set aboard a man-o-war, clearly sung in English, and featuring the dynamic Simon Keenlyside." |
| "Simon Keenlyside as . . . Oreste combines heroic timbre with a convincing lyricism," said the Guardian in a short review of the recording of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride conducted by Minkowski. |
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| Don Giovanni at amazon.com at amazon.ca |
| "From the moment Posa bounded onstage, Simon Keenlyside firmly established his mesmerizing, naturalistic presence. There is a boyish, playful spontaneity to everything he does, a meaning from every glance, every movement of a finger. Suave in style, Keenlyside made a thing of beauty of the trill most baritones fake and showed a seemingly endless, ringing top."--Larry L. Lash in Opera News of April 2007, reviewing a December 11, 2006, performance of Don Carlo at the Wiener Staatsoper. |
| Some reviews 2007 |