Kieran Rayner

Baritone

Kieran Rayner is a London-based New Zealand baritone. Engagements include Junius/ The Rape of Lucretia (Royal Ballet & Opera); Bartolo/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Sorcerer/ Dido & Aeneas (Waterperry Festival); Corrado/Maria de Rudenz (Gothic Opera); Escamillo/Carmen, Billy Bone/Captain Blood’s Revenge (Norwich Festival); Gasparo/Rita, Aeneas/Dido & Aeneas (IF Opera); The Prince/ Fantasio (Garsington); Ucello/BambinO (Scottish Opera/Improbable); Marcello/La bohème (Mid Wales Opera); Figaro/Il barbiere di Siviglia (Devon Opera); Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus (NAFA Singapore); Papageno/Die Zauberflote, Silvio/I Pagliacci (Festival Opera NZ); plus concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival, Royal Albert Hall and Buckingham Palace.

Upcoming engagements include Ceprano/ Rigoletto, Tancredi/Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (IF Opera); Tarquinius/The Rape of Lucretia (English Touring Opera); Ned Keene (cover)/Peter Grimes (Royal Ballet & Opera). A writer-performer, his second play/recital What If? plays in the West End this July. 

Winner of Sing Finzi 2022, International Handel Competition Finalist and Wigmore Hall Song Competition Semi-finalist. A Royal College of Music Opera School graduate, and previous Young Artist with Britten Pears Arts, Independent Opera, Verbier Festival, Samling Arts, Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation, and NZ Opera.


Previously for Longborough: Le Dancaïre/Carmen (2022), Forester/The Cunning Little Vixen (2021)