Kim Begley

Kim Begley’s current season includes a long-overdue return to London in David Pountney’s new production of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s The Passenger at English National Opera, concert appearances at the Edinburgh and San Sebastian Festivals in Liszt's Faust Symphony with Vladimir Jurowski and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and his role debut as Aegist (Elektra) at the Opéra de Montpellier.

As a former company member of the Royal Opera House, in six seasons he sang over thirty roles and has since returned frequently as a guest artist, including in Wozzeck, conducted by Music Director Antonio Pappano, as Siegmund (Die Walküre) with Bernard Haitink and as Captain Vere (Billy Budd) under the late Sir Richard Hickox.

As a renowned interpreter of the major roles by, among others, Wagner, Britten, Janáček and Beethoven, Kim Begley has remained in demand for operatic engagements throughout Europe and North America.  He has performed leading roles at the opera houses in New York, Frankfurt, Chicago, Barcelona, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brussels, as well as in Amsterdam, at the Opera National de Paris and the Théâtre du Châtelet, at La Scala Milan, Berlin’s Staatsoper and in Geneva.

It was as Loge, a role which has featured prominently in his career, that Kim Begley made his Bayreuth Festival début in a new production of Das Rheingold created by Jürgen Flimm and conducted by the late Giuseppe Sinopoli.