LaurenceKilsby
Representation
About Laurence
Highlights in Laurence’s 2024/25 season include roles at the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra national de Paris and Opéra Comique and concert appearances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic/Reinhard Goebel, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Peter Whelan and Pygmalion Ensemble/Raphaël Pichon.
His opera engagements have also included the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra de Dijon and Oper Köln and, in future seasons he will make debuts with the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and the Glyndebourne Festival.
Laurence studied as an ABRSM Vocal Scholar at the Royal College of Music in London, and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was a member of the studio of the Opéra national de Paris during the 2022/23 season. An inaugural Lies Askonas Fellow, he was the winner of the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers and is the winner of the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition and the 2022 Cesti Competition at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Laurence Kilsby performs ‘Erwäge’ from Johannes Passion
Pygmalion Ensemble, dir. Raphaël Pichon Auditorium de Bordeaux Broadcast on Arte.tv on February 25, 2022 Credit: Arte.tv
PlayingLaurence Kilsby - Britten Canticle 1: My beloved is Mine
From the semi-finals of the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. Credit: Wigmore Hall
PlayingLaurence Kilsby - Vivaldi – Deh ti piegha
aurence Kilsby (Tenor - GBR) - «Deh ti piegha» (Antonio Vivaldi «La fida ninfa») Orchester: Ana Liz Ojeda, Jeremie Chigoni, Karla Alejandra Bocaz Munoz (Violine I); Valentina Mattiussi, Raffaele Nicoletti, Lucrezia Nappini (Violine II); Archimede de Martini, Gilberto Ceranto (Viola); Nicola Brovelli (Violoncello); Mario Filippini (Kontrabass); Mauro Pinciaroli (Laute, Theorbe); Gregorio Carraro, Giuseppe Falciglia (Oboe); Yoan Otano (Fagott) Chiara Cattani (Musikalische Leitung) The International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti was founded in 2010 by Alessandro De Marchi. Named after the Italian composer Pietro Antonio Cesti, who made Innsbruck a centre of Italian opera north of the Alps in the mid-17th century, the competition is aimed at young singers from all over the world with a special talent and training for the extremely diverse baroque opera genre. In the meantime, the Cesti Competition has become one of the most important singing competitions in this field. The prizes include engagements at renowned opera houses as well as cash prizes chosen by the jury and the audience. www.altemusik.at Credit: Cesti Competition 2022
PlayingLaurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill -Schubert - Sehnsucht, D. 879
Recorded live at the semi-finals of “Das Lied” at the Heidelberger Frühling. Credit: Heidelberger Frühling.
Playing
Selected Repertoire
| Britten | A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander) • The Rape of Lucretia (Male chorus) |
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| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas) |
| Donizetti | L’elisir d’Amore (Nemorino) |
| Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride (Pylades) |
| Monteverdi | L’incoronazione di Poppea (Lucano/Soldato Primo) • L’Orfeo (Orfeo/Apollo/Pastore/Spirito) |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte (Ferrando) • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Belmonte) • Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) • Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) • La finta giardiniera (Il Conte Belfiore) |
| Purcell | Dido & Aeneas (Sailor) • The Fairy Queen (various roles) |
| Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva) • La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro) • La Scala di Seta (Dorvil) |
| Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos (Scaramuccio) |
| Stravinsky | Pulcinella • The Rake’s Progress (Tom Rakewell) |
| Vivaldi | La fida ninfa (Narete) |
| Weill | Street Scene (Sam Kaplan) |
Sample Programmes
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” — Ernest Hemingway
A programme centred around themes of naivety, betrayal, lust and corruption Brahms: Unbewegte laue luft, op. 57, no. 8 Saint-Saëns: La coccinelle Wolf: Mörike Lieder - II. Der Knabe und das Immlein Schönberg: Brettl-Lieder - 5. Mahnung - 6. Galathea Stenhammar: Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote Clarke: The Seal Man Wolf: Nimmersatte Liebe Prokofiev: Trust me, op. 23, no. 3 Wood: Wild Cyclamen, op. 49 - 9. Horizon Heggie: Eve-Song - 3. Snake Weill:: Complainte de la Seine Schönberg: Vier Lieder, op. 2 - II. Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm Britten: Fish in the unruffled lakes Britten: Canticle I: My beloved is mine Clarke: The Tiger Heggie; Natural Selection - 2. Animal Passion
News
Press
Rameau's Samson
Festival d'Aix-en-ProvenceJul 2024 - Jul 2024Si vous ne le connaissez pas déjà, retenez le nom du ténor britannique Laurence Kilsby. La force de son engagement est à la hauteur de la splendeur de son timbre.
- Le Point
- 10 July 2024
Laurence Kilsby incarne lui aussi un personnage créé de toute pièce, Elon, un ami de Samson révolté par la violence de ses actions, qui passe du côté des Philistins. Le personnage est secondaire, mais l’interprétation électrique du ténor le place au devant de la scène et marque profondément.
- Forum Opera
- 14 July 2024
L’Elon du ténor Laurence Kilsby est véhément, électrique, tout en énergie du désespoir, vocalement et physiquement. Sa colère dévorante est faite d’aigus éruptifs, rapidement vibrés, déclamant des maximes bien claironnées.
- Olyrix
- 05 July 2024
…le ténor Laurence Kilsby au charme discret campe un Elon plein de finesse…
- Le Temps
- 05 July 2024
… and the strikingly mellifluous tenor of Laurence Kilsby as the ultimately doomed traitor Elon offered equally fine character studies in voice and gesture.
- Seen & Heard International
- 17 July 2024
Laurence Kilsby è invece uno dei pochi che può davvero convincere in una parte da haute-contre come quella disegnata per Elon, con la sua distintiva forza nel registro acuto (peccato solo per il ruolo piuttosto contenuto che gli viene assegnato), e appare eroico e deciso in un numero tratto da Zoroastre in cui va anche salutata l'abilità del cornista protagonista di un non facile obbligato.
- Connessi all'Opera
- 19 July 2024
Laurence Kilsby est un Elon à la voix claire et projetée. Son timbre de ténor peut monter jusqu'à la stridence dans une colère exacerbée aux rythmes marqués.
- GBOPERA
- 11 July 2024
