William Towers Counter-tenor William Towers read English at Cambridge Theater Bonn, The Guest in the UK premiere University and was a postgraduate scholar at of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici, the Royal Academy of Music. He appeared Bishop Baldwyn in Birtwistle’s Gawain, Der extensively as a soloist in Sir John Eliot Leiermann in Benedict Mason’s Playing Away, Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and his Lance in the world premiere of Paul Frehner’s performances in the complete Bach series Sirius on Earth and Little James in Birtwistle’s have been issued on CD. The Last Supper. His opera engagements have included His oratorio and recital schedule has featured Medoro (Handel Orlando) and Farnace appearances in many major venues and (Mozart Mitridate Re di Ponto) for the Royal festivals in the UK and abroad, including the Opera House Covent Garden; Oberon (Britten Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Teatro La Barbican Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the Grosses Fenice Venice, Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Teatro Festspielhaus Salzburg, Konzerthaus Vienna, Municipale Valli Reggio Emilia, Staatsoper Fundación Juan March Madrid, National Hanover, for the Royal Opera at the Linbury, Auditorium Madrid, Three Choirs Festival, and for the Aldeburgh Festival; Apollo (Britten Ravenna Festival, Flanders Early Music Death in Venice) for La Monnaie Brussels, Festival, the Festivale de Musique Ancienne Staatstheater Stuttgart, Luxembourg Opera, de Lyon and La Chaise Dieu. Recent concert Canadian Opera Company, Prague State performances include Handel’s Solomon in Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, Oper Frankfurt and Estonia and Latvia, Handel’s Belshazzar with the Bregenz Festival; Ottone (Handel Nicholas McGegan in San Francisco, Bach’s Agrippina), Ruggiero (Vivaldi Orlando Furioso) Mass in B minor with Orquestra Simfonica De “In the title role, the counter- and Egeo (Handel Teseo) for Frankfurt; Les Illes Balears and Jonathan Cohen, Handel’s tenor William Towers sang Ottone (Handel Ottone) and Ozia (La Guiditta) Messiah in Dresden with the MDR and with at the Casa da Musica Porto; Orfeo (Gluck the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and superbly, with power, dramatic Orfeo) in Monte-Carlo; Ottone (Monteverdi Laurence Cummings, Bach’s Christmas confidence, ardour and L’incoronazione di Poppea) for the Teatro Real Oratorio with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and sensitivity” Madrid and Frankfurt; Orlando (Handel Lars Vogt, Bach’s St John Passion with the Orlando) at the Goettingen Festival, at the BBCNOW and John Butt, Bach’s Easter Stephen Pettitt, Opera Drottningholm Theatre and with the Oratorio with the BBCNOW and Steven Magazine Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco; Devine, and the premiere of Harrison Giunio (Porpora L’Agrippina) for the Barber Birtwistle’s Angel Fighter in the Leipzig Bach Institute; Poro (Handel Poro) at the Festival. Goettingen Festival; Giulio Cesare (Handel Giulio Cesare) for Gothenburg Opera; Unulfo Recent highlights have included William’s role (Handel Rodelinda) for the Bolshoi Moscow; debut as the Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Marco Fabio (Caldara Lucio Papirio Dittatore) Flight for Pacific Opera, Victoria Canada, and for Buxton International Festival; Radamisto reprising the role of include reprising the role (Handel Radamisto) for English Touring of Cristiano Mago in Rinaldo for Opera; Cristiano Mago (Handel Rinaldo) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera on tour. The Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Lotario (Handel 2020/21 season sees the release of William’s Lotario) for the London Handel Festival; and solo disc ‘Handelian Pyrotechnics’ with the Eustazio (Handel Rinaldo) for Grange Park Armonico Consort on Signum Classics. Opera. Equally at home in contemporary work Valid for use until 1 September 2021 William’s roles include 5th Innocent in For updated versions please contact Harrison Birtwistle’s Minotaur for the Royal [email protected] Opera Covent Garden, John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary for Rayfield Allied Member of the International Artist 9-12 The Stableyard Managers’ Association Broomgrove Road London SW9 9TL Rayfield Allied acts as agent only and can www.rayfieldallied.com accept no responsibility as principal E-mail [email protected] Telephone +44 (0) 20 3176 5500 Facsimile +44 (0) 700 602 4143 .