Bass-baritone Simon Duus graduated from The Opera Academy at The Royal Danish Theatre as a student of Susanna Eken in 2011 and graduated in 2015 from the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma programme at The Royal Academy of Music (Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium) Aarhus as a student of Bodil Øland. Since then, he has studied with Rachel Andrist, Gregory Lamar and Niel Semer.
He is a member of the soloist ensemble at The Royal Danish Opera, and in season 2024/25 he sings Ortel in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Zeta in Die Lustige Witve.
Simon Duus is constantly performing at the Opera Hedeland, were he had performed Sonora in La fanciulla del West (2024), Apollo in Apollo e Dafne (production for schools, 2018), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (2015) and Leporello in Don Giovanni (2012).
Other roles at The Royal Opera from earlier seasons include Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Schaunard in La bohème, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Escamillo in Carmen and Julio in The Exterminating Angel.
At The Danish National Opera he has sung Colline in La bohème (2014) and at Nordic Network for Early Opera he sang Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea, a performance that was later awarded with the Reumert Talent Prize.
In orchestral works Simon Duus is known for his renditions of Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Requiem, Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams, Vier ernste Gesänge by Brahms, Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th. Recordings include Nielsen’s Maskarade (2015), Peter Heise Song Edition (2021), Heise’s King and Marshall (2021) and Tuan Hao Tan’s Hidden Letters for Figura Ensemle (2024).
