Paul Austin Kelly

Tenor

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  Paul Austin Kelly was born in the USA and studied at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. Since then he has sung with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera (Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri), the Royal Opera at Covent Garden (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) and La Scala, Milan (Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Narciso in Il Turco in Italia, Tonio in La fille du régiment).

  He has also appeared at Glyndebourne, Florida Grand Opera (Count Almaviva), Pittsburgh Opera, Kentucky Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival.

  As well as other Rossini tenor roles including Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Ilo (Zelmira), Oreste (Ermione) and the Pescatore (Guglielmo Tell), Paul Austin Kelly has also sung Mozart roles such as Don Ottavio, Belmonte and Tito, roles by other composers such as Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Alfredo (La Traviata), Elvino (La Sonnambula), and in operas by Haydn, Berg, Puccini, and many others.

  On the concert stage, he has sung repertoire including the Rossini Stabat Mater with Riccardo Muti at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, Haydn’s The Seasons and Creation, Bach’s B Minor Mass at Notre Dame in Paris, St Matthew Passion, and Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Requiem, Britten’s Les Illuminations, Handel’s Messiah and Samson, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Malaysia and Singapore, and Verdi’s Gerusalemme at the Amsterdam Concertgebuow.

  His recordings include Donizetti’s La romanzesca and Zoraida di Granata, L’Esule di Granata by Meyerbeer, Rossini - Three Tenors, Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot, several volumes of Il Salotto (Opera Rara), Der Stein der Weisen (Telarc), two volumes of Rossini Cantatas conducted by Riccardo Chailly (Decca) and Britten and Quilter: 20th Century English Art Songs (GM Recordings). His performance as Tonio in La fille du Régiment from La Scala is available on DVD.

  Paul Austin Kelly is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.
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  • Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola: Opera Ireland
    (2006)

    Kelly had a princely generosity of manner, easy high notes, and a never failing musicality which made his presence a pleasure from beginning to end. It's been a long time since Opera Ireland fielded a tenor of such style and class.

    Irish Times

  • Elvino in La sonnambula: Opera Holland Park
    (June 2005)

    Paul Austin Kelly made a handsome and mellifluous Elvino...

    Daily Telegraph

    ...deals expertly with an extremely high tenor role. Opera Holland Park is lucky to have him...

    Financial Times

    Paul Austin Kelly's bel canto experience shows in an incisively sung account of Amina's lover Elvino...

    The Guardian

    Tenor Paul Austin Kelly uses his meltingly sweet voice to portray her heartbroken lover…Kelly negotiated those perilous high–lying passages without disaster, and was sensitive and supportive in the Act 1 duets: indeed 'Son geloso del zefiro' was the vocal high–point of the evening.

    Metro

    He brings handsome presence to the mopey hero Elvino, singing with style and honeyed tone.

    The Times

• Paul Austin Kelly’s Opera Repertoire

  BRITTEN

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander)
  • The Rape of Lucretia (Male Chorus)
  • Billy Budd (Captain Vere)
  • Turn of the Screw (Peter Quint)

  BELLINI

  • La Sonnambula (Elvino)

  BERG

  • Wozzeck (Andres)

  BLITZSTEIN

  • Regina (Leo, Mr. Marhsall)

  CAVALLI

  • L'Ormindo (Ormindo)

  DONIZETTI

  • Don Pasquale (Ernesto)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo)
  • Lucrezia Borgia (Gennaro)
  • L’Elisir D’Amore (Nemorino)
  • La Fille du regiment (Tonio)
  • Zoraida di Granata (Abenamet)

  GILBERT & SULLIVAN

  • Ruddigore (Richard Dauntless)
  • Mikado (Nanki-Poo)
  • Yeoman of the Guard (Colonel Fairfax)

  GLÜCK

  • Les Pellerins de Mecca (Ali)

  HAYDN

  • Orlando Paladino (Orlando)

  LEHÁR

  • The Merry Widow (Camille)

  MEYERBEER

  • L'Esule di Granata (Alamar)

  MONTEVERDI

  • Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Testo)

  MOZART

  • Entfürung aus dem serail (Belmonte)
  • Don Giovanni (Ottavio)
  • Cosi fan tutte (Ferrando)
  • Die Zauberflöte (Tamino)
  • Il Re Pastore (Alessandro)
  • La Finta Semplice (Polidoro)
  • Der Stein der Weisen (Nadir)
  • La Clemenza di Tito (Tito)
  • Idomeneo (Idomeneo)

  OFFENBACH

  • La Belle Helene (Paride)

  PUCCINI

  • La Rondine (Ruggero)

  ROSSINI

  • La Cenerentola (Ramiro)
  • La Pietra del Paragone (Giocondo)
  • Ermione (Oreste, Pilade)
  • Zelmira (Ilo)
  • Guillaume Tell (Le Pecheur)
  • L’Italiana in Algieri (Lindoro)
  • Otello (Rodrigo)
  • Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva)
  • Maometto Secondo (Condulmiero, Selimo)
  • Armida (Ubaldo, Rinaldo)

  VERDI

  • La traviata (Alfredo)
  • Gerusalemme

  Paul Austin Kelly’s Concert Repertoire

  BACH

  • Christmas Oratorio
  • Magnificat
  • Mass in B Minor
  • St. John Passion
  • St. Matthew Passion
  • Various cantatas

  BEETHOVEN

  • Mass in C
  • Missa Solemnis
  • Ninth Symphony

  BERLIOZ

  • La Damnation de Faust
  • Requiem

  BRITTEN

  • Les Illuminations
  • Saint Nicholas
  • War Requiem

  DVORAK

  • Stabat Mater

  HANDEL

  • Israel in Egypt
  • Messiah
  • Saul
  • Solomon

  HAYDN

  • The Creation
  • Harmoniemesse
  • Lord Nelson Mass
  • Theresienmesse

  LISZT

  • Faust Symphony

  MENDELSSOHN

  • Elijah

  MOZART

  • Mass in C Minor
  • Coronation Mass in C Major
  • Requiem

  ORFF

  • Carmina Burana

  PAINE

  • Mass in D
  • St. Peter

  PUCCINI

  • Messe di Gloria

  ROSSINI

  • Stabat Mater

  SCHUBERT

  • Mass in B-Flat
  • Mass in E-Flat
  • Mass in G

  STRAVINKSY

  • Pulcinella

  TIPPETT

  • A Child of Our Time

  VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS

  • Mass in G Minor
  • Serenade to Music

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