William Towers Counter-tenor

William Towers read English at Cambridge His oratorio and recital schedule has University and was a postgraduate scholar at featured appearances in many major venues the Royal Academy of Music. He appeared and festivals in the UK and abroad, including extensively as a soloist in Sir John Eliot the Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and his Birmingham, Barbican Hall, Royal Albert performances in the complete Bach series Hall, the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, have been issued on CD. Konzerthaus Vienna, National Auditorium Madrid, Three Choirs Festival, Ravenna His opera engagements have included Festival, Flanders Early Music Festival, the Medoro (Handel ) and Farnace Festivale de Musique Ancienne de Lyon and (Mozart Mitridate Re di Ponto ) for the Royal La Chaise Dieu. Recent concert Opera House Covent Garden, Oberon performances include Handel’s in (Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream ) for Estonia and Latvia, Handel with Teatro La Fenice Venice, Teatro Petruzzelli Nicholas McGegan in San Francisco, Handel Bari, Teatro Municipale Valli Reggio Emilia, in Dresden with the MDR and the Staatsoper Hanover, for the Royal Opera at premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s Angel the Linbury, and for the Aldeburgh Festival, Fighter in the Leipzig Bach Festival Apollo (Britten Death in Venice ) for La Monnaie Brussels, Luxembourg Opera, Forthcoming work includes Death in Venice Canadian Opera Company, Prague State for Staatstheater Stuttgart and The Gospel Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, Oper Frankfurt According to the Other Mary for Theater and the Bregenz Festival, Bonn.. (Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea ) for “ In the title role, the counter- the Teatro Real Madrid and Frankfurt, tenor William Towers sang Orlando (Handel Orlando ) at the Goettingen Valid for use until 1 September 2017 Festival, at the Drottningholm Theatre and superbly, with power, dramatic For updated versions please contact with the Philharmonia Baroque in San [email protected] confidence, ardour and Francisco, (Handel Poro ) at the sensitivity ” Goettingen Festival, (Handel Giulio Cesare ) for Gothenburg Opera, Stephen Pettitt, Opera Magazine Unulfo (Handel ) for the Bolshoi Moscow, Ottone (Handel ), Ruggiero (Vivaldi Orlando Furioso ) and Egeo (Handel Teseo) for Frankfurt, Ottone (Handel Ottone ) and Ozia (La Guiditta ) at the Casa da Musica Porto, Orfeo (Gluck Orfeo ) in Monte-Carlo, Cristiano Mago (Handel ) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lotario (Handel Lotario ) for the and Eustazio (Handel Rinaldo ) for Grange Park Opera.

Equally at home in contemporary work William’s roles include 5th Innocent in Harrison Birtwistle’s Minotaur for the Royal Opera Covent Garden, The Guest in the UK premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici, Bishop Baldwyn in Birtwistle’s Gawain, Der Leiermann in Benedict Mason’s Playing Away, Lance in the world premiere of Paul Frehner’s Sirius on Earth and Little James in Birtwistle’s The Last Supper.

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