Lewis, Keith (1950- )

New Zealand tenor. He studied at the London Opera Centre and sang Don Ottavio with Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1977. In the 1978-79 season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London he appeared in I Capuleti and in the first performance of Taverner's Thérèse. He worked at Glyndebourne from 1978 as Mozart's Ferrando, Belmonte, Ottavio, Idomeneo, and Tamino and appeared with the English National Opera ensemble in 1982 as Rossini's Almaviva. His US debut was in San Francisco in 1984. He performed in Oedipus Rex in Philadelphia and New York in 1993, and as Berlioz's Faust with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival in 1989.