Keith Jameson

Vocalists — Tenor

• Manager: William G. Guerri
  Management Territory: Worldwide

"The lyric tenor Keith Jameson was excellent as Osman, who winds up with Edilia, the woman he actually loves." —Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, Almira - Gershwin Hotel, August 2012

“Among the standout performances of this large cast…the sweet-voiced tenor Keith Jameson was heartbreaking as the fearful novice who bungles into trouble and is flogged.” —Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, Billy Budd - Metropolitan Opera, May 2012

“Best of all was Keith Jameson as the tormented Novice, who betrays Billy. His light tenor skimmed effortlessly to the Met’s back row.” —James Jorden, New York Post, Billy Budd - Metropolitan Opera, May 2012

About

Tenor Keith Jameson regularly appears on the major opera stages throughout the United States. He has been heard at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera and Santa Fe Opera. In the current season, Mr. Jameson will be a main-stay at The Metropolitan Opera where he will be heard in over thirty performances. Productions include the new production of “Un ballo in maschera”, “La Rondine”, “Carmen”, and “Francesca da Rimini”. He will also . . . be heard in performances of Haydn’s “Lord Neson Mass” with Boston Baroque, which will be recorded and released.

In the previous season he returned to Los Angeles Opera as Triquet in “Eugene Onegin” and continued his long relationship with Boston Baroque in performances of Haydn’s “Creation” which was recorded for commercial release in the fall of 2012. He returned to Boston Baroque later in the season for performances of Handel’s “Messiah”. He made his debut with Arizona Opera as Goro in “Madama Butterfly” and returned to Atlanta Opera as Grandpa Joe in “The Golden Ticket”. Mr. Jameson returned to the Metropolitan Opera as the Novice in “Billy Budd”, a role for which he received critical acclaim in the summer of 2008 with Santa Fe Opera.

In the 2010–2011 season, he was heard as Flute in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. He appeared with Dallas Opera as the Simpleton in “Boris Godunov”, was heard in “Messiah” with Boston Baroque, and was heard with the New York Philharmonic as Mosquito and the School Master in “Cunning Little Vixen” with music director Alan Gilbert. In the 2009 – 2010 season, Mr. Jameson appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Gherardo in “Gianni Schicci” and as Remendado in “Carmen”, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a production which was broadcast worldwide as part of the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘LIVE! in HD’ series. Additional performances include Don Basilio in “Le nozze di Figaro” at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Pietro in Frank Schreker’s “Die Gezeichneten” with Los Angeles Opera, conducted by James Conlon. In the summer, Mr. Jameson returned to the Santa Fe Opera for performances of Goro and Clarin in Lewis Spratlan’s “Life Is a Dream”.

Additionally, Keith Jameson has been heard as Remendado, Scaramuccio in “Ariadne auf Naxos”, Bob Boles in “Peter Grimes”, and Pong in “Turandot” all with The Santa Fe Opera, Pedrillo in “The Abduction from the Seraglio” and Flavio in “Norma” with Opera Memphis, Monostatos and Little Bat in “Susannah” with Indianapolis Opera. A gifted interpreter of Gilbert and Sullivan, he has sung Nanki-Poo, Frederic in “The Pirates of Penzance”, and Hilarion in “Princess Ida” with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players at Symphony Space in NY, the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, and also the Lake Placid Performing Arts Center, and Ralph Rackstraw in “H.M.S. Pinafore” with Chattanooga Opera.

In concert, he has performed “Messiah” for the Phoenix Symphony, and in Bach's “B minor Mass” with the Berkshire Bach Society. Mr. Jameson sang in the world premier of Shiflett's “Dora” as Sigmund Freud and in the world premier of Martin's “Beast and Superbeast”, both with American Chamber Opera Company in NYC.

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