William Stevens

  • Die Meistersinger –  Hans Sachs (Acts I & II)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro  – Antonio
  • Der Rosenkavalier – Fourth Marschallin’s Footman/Boots, a Houseboy

 

An Associate Artist at the Welsh National Opera, British bass William Stevens studied singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with Donald Maxwell.

Recent engagements include Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and Colline (La bohème) for Cardiff Opera, Leporello (Don Giovanni) for Bath Opera, Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Hurn Court Opera and Cumbria Opera Festival, and Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro) for Saffron Opera, as well as the covers of Fasolt (Das Rheingold) and Hagen (Götterdämmerung) for Longborough Festival Opera.

His repertoire also includes the title rôle, and Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Sarastro, and The Speaker (Die Zauberflöte), Hunding (Die Walküre), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring), Olin Blitch (Susannah), Sir John Falstaff (At The Boar’s Head), Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), the title rôle in Sweeney Todd, and numerous Gilbert and Sullivan rôles.

With Welsh National Opera, he will sing the title rôle in Le nozze di Figaro and Spinelloccio (Gianni Schicchi). Elsewhere, he will sing Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) for Cardiff Opera, Der Wanderer (Scenes from Siegfried) for Bleeding Chunks, and Bernard in the world première of The Waves by Louis Mander.