​Simon Bailey

Simon Bailey was born in Lincoln. After studying at Cambridge, the RNCM and the La Scala Academy in Milan he moved to Frankfurt in 2002. Simon was awarded the 2018 Wales Theatre Award for Best Male Performance in Opera. His future plans include Wanderer Siegfried in Bilbao, Wotan Die Walküre in Erl and Don Pasquale for Oper Saarbrücken. 

Recent engagements: Wotan Das Rheingold (Tiroler Festspiele Erl); Jochanaan Salome (Stuttgart); Leporello Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House); Klingsor Parsifal (Strasbourg); Schakloviti Khovanshchina, Šiškov From the House of the Dead and Kutuzov War and Peace (WNO)