Kevin Greenlaw

Kevin Greenlaw is establishing himself at the forefront of America’s new generation of baritones. In 2010-11, he made
his London opera debut at the O2 Arena as ESCAMILLO Carmen with Raymond Gubbay as well as having two role debuts in France as FIGARO Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Angers-Nantes Opéra and DANILO Die Lustige Witwe with Opéra National de Lorraine.

Previous triumphs have included PELLÉAS Pelléas et Mélisande with Opéra National de Lorraine and Opéra de Rennes, MERCUTIO Roméo et Juliette with the Spoleto Festival, Charleston (USA), CHOREBE in Berlioz Les Troyens with Festival Amazonas de Opera, Manaus (Brazil), GUGLIELMO Così fan tutte with Festival de Sédières in France, ORESTE Iphigénie en Tauride with Opéra National de Lorraine and the Komische Oper Berlin, and MORALES in Bizet’s Carmen both for Ongaku-Juku Opera, Japan, with Seiji Ozawa, as well as the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Georges Prêtre.

Future engagements include another collaboration with Raymond Gubbay in Carmina Burana at the Royal Albert Hall, CONTE ALMAVIVA Il Nozze di Figaro with Opéra de Rennes and SAM Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein).

Born in Missouri, he studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama,

before winning the Prix d’Association pour le Rayonnement de l’Opéra National de Paris. He went on to sing the role of
TARQUINIUS The Rape of Lucretia and PAPAGENO Die Zauberflöte with the Britten-Pears Opera at Aldeburgh, and covered the roles of PELLÉAS and HARLEQUIN Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Other international credits include KULIGIN Katja Kabanova with the Opéra National de Paris, NED KEENE Peter Grimes with Opéra National de Montpellier, the title roles of DON GIOVANNI and EUGENE ONEGIN as well as MARCELLO La Bohème and CONTE ALMAVIVA Il Nozze di Figaro for Theater Dortmund, DANDINI La Cenerentola with the Opera Faber Festival, Portugal, RAMIRO L’Heure Espagnole with the Chorégies d’Orange and DANCAIRE Carmen with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.

On the concert platform, he has sung Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Snape Proms, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Spanish National Orchestra in Madrid. Other concert appearances have included appearances with the Al Bustan Festival in Le Bal Masqué/Le Bestiaire in Beirut, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago with Mahler’s Liedern eines fahrenden
Gesellen, and performances with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ.

An already impressive discography includes JUAN in Massenet’s Don Quichotte, conducted by James Conlon for Mezzo TV productions in France.