This season, bass Alan Williams debuts with the Pittsburgh Opera as Colline in La Bohème, led by Music Director Antony Walker and the New York Philharmonic joining the University of Michigan Chamber Choir to sing Saariaho’s Oltra mar with composer and conductor Thomas Adès on the podium at David Geffen Hall. Williams returns to The Metropolitan Opera to cover the role of Aldeano 3 in El último sueño de Frida y Diego with a production by Deborah Colker under the baton of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Des Moines Metro Opera to take on the role of Angelotti in Tosca under the baton of David Neely. In the past, Williams has been engaged at the Santa Fe Opera,  Aspen Music Festival, Detroit Opera, New York Festival of Song, National Sawdust, Berkshire Opera Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival, working with conductors James Conlon, Robert Spano, Iván López Reynoso, Carlo Montanaro, George Manahan, Niccolo Muti, Elizabeth Askren, Derrick Inouye, Michael Ellis Ingram, Daniel Suk, and Kazem Abdullah, among others. Williams received degrees from the University of Michigan and Northern Arizona University, before becoming a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program with LA Opera. A native of San Bernardino, California, he currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Photo by Blake Nelson