Papageno: The Magic Flute / Dorset Opera Festival 2022
“…the personable and well sung Essex-boy Papageno of Felix Kemp…”
Opera
“Papageno requires an ability to make the audience warm to you which Felix Kemp possess 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: Juliana / Resonus Classics CD 2022
“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
“…strongly sung by Felix Kemp…”
Gramophone
“…Felix Kemp’s masculine Juan…”
Limelight
“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
A Night at the Opera / Oxford Opera 2021
“…for me, the outstanding singer on the night.”
Ox In A Box
The Outsiders Fight Bank / London Song Festival 2019
“Felix Kemp was superbly moving in lyrical ballads.”
Planet Hugill
Giove: La Calisto / Longborough Festival Opera
“The cast was a knockout too…strutting, swaggering and seducing their way across the stage in spangly suits – every smirk oozing slick, amoral entitlement – Felix Kemp as Giove, and Neil Balfour as his beatboxing (and how!) wingman Mercurio, just kept boogying away with the whole show. Boy, it looked fun to be them. No pat morality here: just human nature stripped bare – titillating, shocking and appallingly enjoyable.”
Birmingham Post
“…an appealing timbre, well produced and assured. He’s clearly a find.”
Classical Music Daily
“The singers are musically glamorous, capturing an impressive range of character and drama. Felix Kemp offers a certain lurid charm.”
Classical Source
“Felix Kemp reveals an excellent baritone as Giove.”
Music OMH
“…there are spirited performances from (i.a.) Felix Kemp as the preening Giove.”
The Times
Haydn: Nelson Mass / Birmingham Bach Choir
“Anita Watson and Felix Kemp soared through their virtuoso solos…”
Midlands Music Reviews
Masetto: Don Giovanni / British Youth Opera
“Felix Kemp was a strong and characterful Masetto…”
Classical Source
“Felix Kemp, Masetto…stood out.”
The Observer
“Felix Kemp, an unusually classy Masetto, phrased with elegance.”
The Stage
Schubert (arr. Brahms): Songs / RSNO Digital Season Spring / Summer 2021
“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.”
VoxCarnyx
Pierrot: Fête Galante / Retrospect Opera CD
“…the shining vocal performances are by Felix Kemp as Pierrot, Carolyn Dobbin as The Queen and Mark Milhofer as The Lover.”
British Music Society
“Felix Kemp’s plangent, doomed Pierrot makes a particular impression…”
Gramophone
“Of the soloists, 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
“Felix Kemp shows his Bel Canto credentials as Pierrot.”
Opera Lounge
“The shadows truly fall when baritone Felix Kemp sings Pierrot’s central aria, an abstract meditation on life…Kemp pays careful attention to both the text and the vocal phrasing.”
Opera Today
“Felix Kemp makes a very appealing and affecting Pierrot…”
Planet Hugill
The Herald: The Travelling Companion / New Sussex Opera
“Felix Kemp as The Herald exhibited a youthfully flexible baritone.”
Bachtrack
“Felix Kemp brings a ceremonial authority to the role of the Herald.”
Classical Source
“Felix Kemp’s lyric baritone made an excellent impression in the Herald’s smiling, bureaucratic urbanities.”
Opera
“Felix Kemp was appropriately stentorian and clear as the Herald.”
Opera Today
“Felix Kemp made a noble Herald.”
Planet Hugill
Eugene Onegin / OperaUpClose
“Onegin is well sung by Felix Kemp…Kemp’s appealing baritone.”
The Guardian
“Felix Kemp’s Onegin was suitably self-controlled, so that his later disintegration came as a shock. His cynical arousal of Tatyana was elegantly sung…”
Opera
“Surrounded by a cast of superb, rich vocalists (Felix Kemp as Onegin and Anthony Flaum as Lensky create a fantastic duo, playing off each other physically as well as with completely complementary vocals) the story of Tanya growing to independence is well rendered.”
The Reviews Hub
“Felix Kemp, a pleasing young baritone…”
The Stage
“There’s no faulting the intensity of the performances, particularly from Felix Kemp as a suave Onegin.”
The Times
“Felix Kemp’s light baritone allowed him the freedom to express floods of natural emotion during Onegin’s descent from disdain to desperation.”
What’sOnStage
Marchese d’Obigny: La traviata / Opera Holland Park Young Artists
“There were clearly-defined, strongly-voiced cameos from (ia) Felix Kemp (d’Obigny)…”
Opera
Melot: Tristan und Isolde / Grange Park Opera
“Felix Kemp did as much as he could with what Wagner gives him as Melot.”
Seen and Heard International
