Biography
William Morgan’s current and future engagements include FLUTE A Midsummer Night’s Dream and MARCO The Gondoliers Scottish Opera, FERRANDO Cosi fan Tutte Longborough Festival, FIRST PRIEST The Mask of Orpheus English National Opera, Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at BBC Proms and reprising the role of PHAETON Jonathan Dove’s The Day After in Liverpool. He is currently an ENO Harewood Artist.
Most recent engagements include TOM RAKEWELL The Rake’s Progress Gothenburg Symphony (also in a TV production for Accentus Music), TAMINO Die Zauberflöte Scottish Opera, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni Longborough Festival, Johann Strauss Gala tour Raymond Gubbay Ltd and WRITER Jack the Ripper (world premiere) English National Opera.
William made his ENO debut in the principal role of YOUNGER MAN in Tansy Davies’ Between Worlds at the Barbican, and returned as PETER QUINT The Turn of the Screw at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, HOT BISCUIT SLIM Paul Bunyan, PHAETON Jonathan Dove’s The Day After. Other recent opera work includes roles in Falstaff Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, YOUNG KING (cover) Lessons in Love and Violence Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, MISAEL in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace and Lliam Paterson’s The 8th Door Scottish Opera, PASTORE/SPIRITO and cover APOLLO Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Bayerische Staatsoper.
An avid chamber musician, William has performed recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Ludlow English Song Festival and the Royal Overseas League, with repertoire including the major song cycles of Schubert, Schumann and Britten. He has recently collaborated with pianists Iain Burnside, Sholto Kynoch and the guitarist Sean Shibe. He performs regularly in concert, appearing at the Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, Cadogan Hall, and Snape Maltings, and has been broadcast on BBC Television and Radio as well as channels overseas.
He was 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.
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