FELIX KEMP – PRESS
Falke: Die Fledermaus / If Opera
“Felix Kemp seemed confident singing a fine Falke”
Opera Scene
Dick Dewy: Under the Greenwood Tree (Paul Carr) / Dorset Opera
“Felix Kemp as Dick Dewy, proved a well-rounded singing actor”
Opera Magazine
“Paul Carr is lucky to have such exceptional voices as baritone Felix Kemp (Dick Dewy) to send his melodic lines soaring”
The Stage
“Felix Kemp was a perfect fit for Dick Dewy who allied glorious tone to an easy blend of resolution and self-effacement”
Opera Today
“Felix Kemp as Dick Dewy has a brilliant clarity to his voice matched by an understated truthfulness to his performance”
Claire Alexander, Mark Aspen
“The soloists fulfilled their roles to perfection […] Felix Kemp as a quietly impassioned Dick Dewy”
The Article
“ Strong performances from the four leads [including] Felix Kemp’s ardent Dick Dewy”
Opera Now
Papageno: Die Zauberflöte / Dorset Opera
“…Led by the personable and well-sung Essex-boy Papageno of Felix Kemp”
Opera Magazine
“Papageno requires an ability to make the audience warm to you which Felix Kemp possesses in spades: his vocal performance was delivered with distinction and his dialogue perfectly judged”
Opera Now
“Felix Kemp brings exceptional charm and articulacy to his likely-lad Papageno”
The Stage
Juan / Joseph Phibbs: Juliana (Resonus Classics)
“The recording displays young singers of exceptional accomplishment who are a delight to listen to… Felix Kemp‘s baritone is finely weighted in the role of Juan…”
Opera Magazine
“[The] love duet with Juan, strongly sung by Felix Kemp, is beautifully achieved…”
Gramophone
“The score is brilliantly written, with a spaciousness and sure sense of timing that encourages Zoe Drummond (Juliana) and Felix Kemp (Juan) to fully vocally and dramatically inhabit their characters”
BBC Music Magazine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Vibrant, fierce and feisty commitment fully attuned to Joseph Phibbs’ accomplished score. Vividly sung and played… Felix Kemp’s masculine Juan”
Limelight Magazine (Editor’s Choice) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem / Saffron Hall
“The baritone soloist, Felix Kemp, was exemplary. His role demands a commanding presence and his sonorous, chocolatey tone rang out with great authority.”
Bill Ives
Arias by Mozart, Wagner / Opera Gala with Oxford Opera
“Baritone Felix Kemp was for me, the outstanding singer on the night.”
Ox in a Box
Schubert Lieder orch. Brahms / Royal Scottish National Orchestra
“Kemp has a very fine voice, with excellent dynamic control across his range. Baritone songs open and close the set, and he clearly relishes the operatic possibilities of Schiller’s Gruppe aus dem Tartarus.”
VoxCarynx
Pierrot / Ethel Smyth: Fête Galante (Retrospect Opera)
“Felix Kemp’s plangent, doomed Pierrot makes a particular impression.”
Gramophone
“I was most taken with the baritone Felix Kemp, whose Pierrot is as precisely enunciated as it is warmly sung: his sardonic little songs are spellbinding.”
Opera Magazine
“The shadows truly fall when baritone Felix Kemp sings Pierrot’s central aria, an abstract meditation on love… Kemp pays careful attention to both the text and the vocal phrasing.”
Opera Today
“Die Stimmen der Gesangssolisten passen gut zueinander, von Felix Kemp mit geradezu belkantistisch geführtem Bariton als Pierrot…” (“The soloists’ voices blend well together, from Felix Kemp daring to show his baritone’s bel canto credentials as Pierrot…”)
Opera Lounge
“Felix Kemp makes a very appealing and affecting Pierrot who goes to his death gladly and lyrically”
Planet Hugill, CD Releases of the Year
“As for the cast, the shining vocal performances are by Felix Kemp as Pierrot…”
British Music Society
“Among the gifted solo singers, Felix Kemp and Alessandro Fisher are well contrasted…”
Manchester Classical Music, Favourite CD of 2019
The Outsiders Fight Back / The London Song Festival
“Kemp was superbly moving in lyrical ballads… [and] brought an achingly expressive quality to For You There is No Song”
Planet Hugill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Giove: La Calisto / Longborough Festival Opera
“A spirited performance from Felix Kemp as the preening Giove”
The Times ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp reveals an excellent baritone as Giove”
Music OMH ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“The singers are musically glamorous, capturing an impressive range of character and drama. Felix Kemp offers a certain lurid charm”
Classical Source ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp as Giove was sonorous and suitably sinister”
Plays to See ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Herald: Stanford’s The Travelling Companion / New Sussex Opera
“Felix Kemp’s lyric baritone made an excellent impression in the Herald’s smiling, bureaucratic urbanities”
Opera Magazine
“Felix Kemp was appropriately stentorian and clear as the Herald”
Opera Today
“Felix Kemp as the Herald exhibited [his] youthfully flexible baritone”
Bachtrack ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp brings a ceremonial authority to the role of the Herald”
Classical Source ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp made a noble Herald”
Planet Hugill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Music by Leonard Bernstein / The London Song Festival
“Felix Kemp sang Some Other Time… a poignant account of the words (wonderfully clear) with a fine strong tone and sense of line”
Planet Hugill
Marchese d’Obigny: La Traviata / Opera Holland Park Young Artist Performance
“There were clearly-defined, strongly voiced cameos from Felix Kemp”
Opera Magazine
Title Role: Eugene Onegin / OperaUpClose
“The cast of Eugene Onegin deliver an intense vocal performance… there’s no faulting the intensity of the performances, particularly from Felix Kemp as a suave Onegin”
The Times ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp’s Onegin was elegantly sung”
Opera Magazine
“Onegin is well sung by Felix Kemp”
The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp, a pleasing young baritone… Musically, the singing is excellent”
The Stage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Principals are double-cast, and the trio I saw were red hot… Felix Kemp’s light baritone allowed him the freedom to express floods of natural emotion during Onegin’s descent from disdain to desperation.”
What’s On Stage ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“A cast of superb, rich vocalists: Felix Kemp as Onegin… It’s a rich, beautifully performed production”
The Reviews Hub ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Felix Kemp’s glossily suave Onegin also has a wonderful voice”
Theatre Bubble ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“The young cast assembled for this performance of the opera is without exception, excellent… Felix Kemp has a strong and melodious baritone voice and was certainly attractive enough to explain Tatyana’s infatuation.”
Plays to See ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Masetto: Don Giovanni / British Youth Opera
“You come to British Youth Opera to spot stars, and there’s great confidence and glamour to the singing… There’s solid support from Felix Kemp’s Masetto”
The Times ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Don Giovanni had strong singing all round… Felix Kemp (Masetto) stood out”
The Observer
“Impressive singing – The entire cast deliver the partially updated rhyming translation with crisp clarity… Felix Kemp an unusually classy Masetto, phrased with elegance”
The Stage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“In its thirtieth year, British Youth Opera offered, as usual, the opportunity to come across some talented young singers… Felix Kemp was a strong and characterful Masetto… All sang Amanda Holden’s English translation with impressive diction.”
Classical Source ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“One of the stars for me was one of the smaller roles- Masetto, played by Felix Kemp who brought strength, gravitas and an interesting vulnerability to the role”
The Stuart Review
Melot: Tristan und Isolde / Grange Park Opera
“Felix Kemp was a vividly direct Melot”
Planet Hugill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“In the supporting role of Melot, Felix Kemp was of admirably firm voice”
www.markronan.com
“Felix Kemp did as much as he could with what Wagner gives him as Melot”
Seen and Heard International