Simon Bailey - Bass Baritone

Welcome to the website of Simon Bailey, winner of the 2018 Wales Theatre Award for Best Male Performance in Opera. Currently based in Frankfurt, Germany, Simon has a repertoire of more than 100 major principal operatic roles from Berg to Britten, Mozart to Mayuzumi, Humperdinck to Händel and everything in between. His unusually large vocal range means he has appeared as a low bass (Inquisitor in Don Carlos, Gonzalo in The Tempest), a Mozartian bass (with more than 50 performances of Leporello and 60 of Figaro including ROH Covent Garden and La Scala, Milan), as a typical Italian Buffo (most recently as Don Magnifico in Cenerentola), a Heldenbariton (Jochanaan Salome Stuttgart) a dramatic baritone (Paolo in Simon Boccanegra) and even a Basso alla Batarda, singing in falsetto as Gelone in Cesti´s L´orontea.