Simon O'Neill

	Metropolitan Opera Walküre poster January 2008
	Wikipedia article November 2007
	Interview: Berliner Morgenpost Barenboim dirigiert Wagner in der Waldbühne March 2008
	*Die Walküre* Playbill Der Ring des Nibelungen Royal Opera House at Covent Garden September 2007
	Interview: Otago Daily Times 7 January 2008
	Pavarotti Wants More Pavarotti is famous for the power—and the powerful clarity—of his singing. At Juilliard, he was protecting his vocal cords, and never opened up and sang fully. But he was wearing a microphone, so that even when he hummed a phrase the hall was flooded with more sound than the young singers could muster with veins bulging. It was as though they were sharing the stage with a set of supersonic lungs. The next to last student on the program was a New Zealand tenor named Simon O'Neill, whose face appears above the word "Opera" on a one-dollar New Zealand stamp. He had chosen to sing Donizetti's "Angelo casto e bel," which Pavarotti recorded for the first time in 1968. ("I wanted to do something to remind him of when he was younger," O'Neill said later.) There is a sustained, terrifically high B-flat at the finish of the aria. The first time through, O'Neill settled for a lower tone, like a figure skater who plays it safe by reducing a triple jump to a double. Pavarotti asked O'Neill to sing the aria again, and to cap it off with the high note. He added, "Try to go up without fear." O'Neill readied himself, took a deep breath, and gave a little nod to the pianist. This time, he grabbed hold of the B-flat and held it, his face throbbing, then reddening, with effort. He finally let go of the note, stumbling a bit to the side as he finished. The audience roared its approval. Pavarotti leaned back, looking satisfied, and said, "Bravo." Then he announced that he wanted to hear the song "one more time, please, from the top." Christopher Hawthorne, THE NEW YORKER, March 12, 2001
	Interview: Sound Bite OPERA NEWS, September 2005
	*Fidelio* Poster, Auckland Philharmonia 10 August 2007
	Interview: Life Lessons HERALD CANVAS MAGAZINE 4 August 2007
	Interview: Gifted Kiwi sending his voice to the world THE PRESS August 2007
	International Herald Tribune Siegmund at the Met 21 February 2007
	Limelight magazine interview Melbourne, Australia, January 2007
	Beethoven Ninth Symphony Poster Orchestra di Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi January 2007
	RING CYCLE poster Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 2006
	Passing on the Wagner baton Interview The Opera Critic March 2006
	'Susannah by Floyd' wins Best Opera award in Ireland 13 February 2005
	Arts Laureate of New Zealand 10 November 2005
	Interview: Sound Bite OPERA NEWS September 2005
	Nixon and Mao sing and dance MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO Radio interview May 13 2005
	The Understudy This episode features a documentary about the life of an understudy - unforgettable Ashburton tenor Simon O'Neill is understudy for Placido Domingo at New York's Metropolitan Opera. TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND, June 2005
	BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE January 2005
	Me and Domingo interview. "Kiwi Tenor Simon O'Neill sings in opera houses worldwide. The pinnacle so far, he tells Kristen Matthew in New York, is his stint understudying Placido Domingo at the Me. SUNDAY STAR TIMES, 17 October 2004
	Give us a tenor interview. NEW ZEALAND HERALD William Dart 21 July 2004
	In Domingo's Footsteps interview METRO Gilbert Wong July 2004
	Wagner the Perfect Pitch for This Tenor WAGNER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER interview, Heath Lees, March 2003
	Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals Concert April 21 2002
	Video Interview. BBC WORLD Click Online 11 April 2002.
	Mastering a New Instrument: The Web Interview NEW YORK TIMES Circuits 17 January 2002
	MASTERCLASS: Pavarotti wants more. THE NEW YORKER Talk of the Town 5 March 2001
	1998 New Zealand Post "Opera" Stamp Simon as Romeo in Gounod's Romeo et Juiliette
	Last Night of the Proms poster NEW ZEALAND HERALD August 1998