William Morgan
Tenor
William Morgan’s current and future engagements include NOVICE Billy Buddy Opéra de Lyon MALE CHORUS The Rape of Lucretia English Touring Opera, FREDERIC The Pirates of Penzance, TAMINO The Magic Flute English National Opera, CAMILLE Merry Widow, FREDDY in Dove’s Marx in London Scottish Opera, FAIRFAX Yeomen of the Guard Opera Holland Park, TOM RAKEWELL The Rake’s Progress Théâtre Orchestre Bienne, FERRANDO Così fan tutte Irish National Opera, and VICTORIN The Dead City and (cv) TUOMAS in Saariaho’s Innocence Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Past engagements include Candide (title role), MARCO The Gondoliers, TAMINO Die Zauberflöte, MISAEL The Burning Fiery Furnace Scottish Opera, DON OTTAVIO Don Giovanni, FERRANDO Così fan tutte and ANTHONY Sweeney Todd Longborough Festival, WALTHER/HUGO/OLD WOMAN in Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert English Touring Opera and Aldeburgh Festival, TEACHER Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and ENO Orchestra at the BBC Proms, Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Scenes from the Wild (world premiere) City of London Sinfonia, Dialogues des Carmélites Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, TALUS in Michael Zev Gordon’s Raising Icarus (world premiere) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, PRUNIER La Rondine and ANTHONY Sweeney Todd West Green Opera, WRITER Ian Bell’s Jack the Ripper (world premiere), FIRST PRIEST The Mask of Orpheus and REPORTER Orphée, PETER QUINT The Turn of the Screw, HOT BISCUIT SLIM Paul Bunyan, PHAETON in Jonathan Dove’s The Day After English National Opera, TOM RAKEWELL The Rake’s Progress Gothenburg Symphony, and Johann Strauss Gala tour Raymond Gubbay Ltd.
Oher past work includes YOUNGER MAN in Tansy Davies’ Between Worlds Barbican, roles in Falstaff Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (with Bryn Terfel), PASTORE/SPIRITO Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Bayerische Staatsoper, and Hippolyte et Aricie (with William Christie) Glyndebourne.
William performed concerts with at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, Royal Overseas League, Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Canterbury Cathedral, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at BBC Proms, and BBC Radio 3. He trained at the National Opera Studio and at the Royal College of Music.
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"William Morgan as the Male Chorus arrested the audience with his storytelling and dynamic tenor, marked with impeccable diction, impressive dynamic control and a sense of eerie fascination over what he was narrating."
Opera Now
"The Male Chorus, sung forcefully but with thrilling clarity at London’s Hackney Empire by William Morgan,"
The Times
"It is William Morgan, though, who gives the star performance: he’s genuinely funny as Frederic, the naive apprentice pirate who returns in Act 2 as a dashing man of the world before finding himself duty-bound to return to piracy, and sings it all in a soaring tenor that cuts through everything elegantly."
The Guardian
""Und William Morgan, der erst wenige Tage vor der Premiere [...] als Tom Rakewell einsprang, lässt wirklich aufhorchen: sein runder, voluminöser Tenorklang, der zwar keine Leichtigkeit in der Höhe ermöglicht, stattdessen aber satte, schwelgerische Legati-Bögen malt." (And William Morgan, who stepped in as Tom Rakewell just a few days before the premiere, is truly impressive: his rich, full tenor sound, which does not allow for lightness in the higher register, instead creates lush, expressive legato lines.)"
Der Bund
"The other outstanding piece of singing came from William Morgan as the imprisoned Colonel Fairfax, a brightly ringing tenor voice to make you sit up and take notice."
Bachtrack
"The listening Walter, William Morgan – later becoming Hugo, then the Old Woman – brought a clear tenor voice to all three roles with striking resonance."
Gramophone
"William Morgan’s Quint ... we fully believe he is 'free with everyone', chameleon-like, sinuous, bestial, with just a touch of the Johnny Depp charm about him; musically beguiling, too, yet Morgan can produce raw bite when he wants to attack a consonant."
Classical Source
"At its heart is a charismatic performance from tenor William Morgan in the title role (...) This Candide rocks between ribald nonsense and the deeply moving with startling ease"
The Herald
"William Morgan made Don Ottavio less supine and reactive than is often the case and he sang both arias with impressive lyricism and urgency, with a lovely result in the lightly virile 'Il mio tesoro'."
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