Verdi's Otello Silvio in Pagliacci Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande Ned Keene in Peter Grimes Prince Yeletski in The Queen of Spades Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia Rigoletto in Rigoletto Arthus in Le Roi Arthus Wolfram in Tannhäuser Prospero in The Tempest Giorgio Germont in Traviata Steersman in Tristan und Isolde Ping in Turandot Andrei in Prokofiev's War and Peace Wozzeck in Wozzeck Papageno in Die Zauberflöte Honours and awards 1986: Richard Tauber Prize 1987: Winner of the Walther Gruner International Lieder competition 1990: First Prize, Elly Ameling competition 1994: Singer of the Year Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society 2003: Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to Music 2004: Opera Award for the category Best Baritone (Don Giovanni, Théâtre de la Monnaie) from the Italian magazine L'Opera. 2004: XII Premios de la Crítica award to Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay in Hamlet for the best male and female singers in a staged opera. 2005: Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording Marriage of Figaro 2006: Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, for his work in the ROH production of 1984 and ENO's Billy Budd in 2005. He was a nominee for this award in 2004 for The Royal Opera's Hamlet and Die Zauberflote. 2007: ECHO Klassik Award, Singer of the Year (male) 2007: XV Premios de la Crítica award for Best Recital Artist 2007: Gramophone Award, Best of Category (Recital) for his debut recital album Tales of Opera 2010: Gramophone Award, Best of Category (Contemporary) for the CD The Tempest, singing Prospero 2011: Musical America's Vocalist of the Year award 2017: Austrian Kammersänger 2018: Knighted in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to Music References External links simonkeenlyside.info – Biography, schedule, discography, media database Television interview with Simon Keenlyside on C Music TV Simon Keenlyside on Askonas Holt Artists' Management 1959 births 20th-century British male opera singers 21st-century British male opera singers Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English operatic baritones Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Living people People educated at Reed's School Singers from London Grammy Award winners Knights Bachelor Österreichischer Kammersänger Singers awarded knighthoods