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.