Biography
William Morgan is an ENO Harewood Artist. Engagements for 2018 include TOM RAKEWELL The Rake’s Progress with Barbara Hannigan conducting the Gothenbury Symphony Orchestra, PETER QUINT The Turn of the Screw English National Opera at the Open Air Theatre, HOT BISCUIT SLIM Paul Bunyan ENO at Wilton’s Music Hall, SOLOIST Opera Highlights tour Scottish Opera, Johann Strauss Gala tour Raymond Gubbay Ltd and covering in George Benjamin's latest opera Lesson in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
In 2019 he will return to ENO for the world premiere of Iain Bell's Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel in the featured role of THE WRITER, and to Scottish Opera as TAMINO in Sir Thomas Allen's acclaimed production of The Magic Flute.
He is a National Opera Studio young artist (2015-16) sponsored by English National Opera, graduated from the Royal College of Music, and continues to study with Tim Evans-Jones.
William made his solo debut for English National Opera in 2015 in the principal role of YOUNGER MAN in Tansy Davies' Between Worlds at the Barbican, and he recently returned as PHAETON in Jonathan Dove’s The Day After and FLORIZEL (cover) in Ryan Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale.
Other recent opera work includes PASTORE/SPIRITO and cover APOLLO Monteverdi's L'Orfeo Bayerische Staatsoper, ANTHONY Sweeney Todd Longborough Festival, SPOLETTA Tosca Nevill Holt Opera, CERVANTES in Johann Strauss’ The Queen's Lace Handkerchief Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall, TENOR in Lliam Paterson’s The 8th Door Scottish Opera, Hippolyte et Aricie conducted by William Christie at Glyndebourne, ORPHEUS Orpheus in the Underworld Opera Danube, ANTONIO Das Liebesverbot Chelsea Opera, JOHN DARLING Peter Pan (cover) Welsh National Opera, NEMORINO Duchy Opera, BASILIO/CURZIO Kilden Theatre, Kristiansand, HENRY CRAWFORD Mansfield Park Upstairs at the Gatehouse and ALFRED Die Fledermaus OperaUpClose. As a member of ENO's Opera Works programme, he studied CASTOR Castor et Pollux, JUPITER Semele, and performed Le Comte Ory at Sadler's Wells. With the National Opera Studio, he performed FERRANDO, RAMIRO and FERDINAND in Ades' The Tempest.
An avid chamber musician, William has performed many Lieder and song recitals, including at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room, and the Royal Overseas League, with repertoire including the major song cycles of Schubert, Schumann and Britten. He performs regularly in concert, and has sung at the Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, St John's Smith Square, Canterbury Cathedral and Snape Maltings, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
In 2019 he will return to ENO for the world premiere of Iain Bell's Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel in the featured role of THE WRITER, and to Scottish Opera as TAMINO in Sir Thomas Allen's acclaimed production of The Magic Flute.
He is a National Opera Studio young artist (2015-16) sponsored by English National Opera, graduated from the Royal College of Music, and continues to study with Tim Evans-Jones.
William made his solo debut for English National Opera in 2015 in the principal role of YOUNGER MAN in Tansy Davies' Between Worlds at the Barbican, and he recently returned as PHAETON in Jonathan Dove’s The Day After and FLORIZEL (cover) in Ryan Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale.
Other recent opera work includes PASTORE/SPIRITO and cover APOLLO Monteverdi's L'Orfeo Bayerische Staatsoper, ANTHONY Sweeney Todd Longborough Festival, SPOLETTA Tosca Nevill Holt Opera, CERVANTES in Johann Strauss’ The Queen's Lace Handkerchief Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall, TENOR in Lliam Paterson’s The 8th Door Scottish Opera, Hippolyte et Aricie conducted by William Christie at Glyndebourne, ORPHEUS Orpheus in the Underworld Opera Danube, ANTONIO Das Liebesverbot Chelsea Opera, JOHN DARLING Peter Pan (cover) Welsh National Opera, NEMORINO Duchy Opera, BASILIO/CURZIO Kilden Theatre, Kristiansand, HENRY CRAWFORD Mansfield Park Upstairs at the Gatehouse and ALFRED Die Fledermaus OperaUpClose. As a member of ENO's Opera Works programme, he studied CASTOR Castor et Pollux, JUPITER Semele, and performed Le Comte Ory at Sadler's Wells. With the National Opera Studio, he performed FERRANDO, RAMIRO and FERDINAND in Ades' The Tempest.
An avid chamber musician, William has performed many Lieder and song recitals, including at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room, and the Royal Overseas League, with repertoire including the major song cycles of Schubert, Schumann and Britten. He performs regularly in concert, and has sung at the Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, St John's Smith Square, Canterbury Cathedral and Snape Maltings, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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