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Roderick Williams and Christina Gansch perform the wonderful 'Pa–, pa–, pa–, Papageno' duet from The Magic Flute English baritone Roderick Williams made his Royal Opera debut in 1997 as Obstinate/Watchful/First Shepherd (The Pilgrim’s Progress) and has since sung Schaunard (La bohème) and Ned Keene (Peter Grimes). Recent and future opera engagements include the title role in Eugene Onegin for Garsington, the title role in Billy Budd with Opera North and Papageno for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Join the cast of David McVicar's Royal Opera production as they explore one of the best-loved operas of all time. Roderick Williams encompasses a wide repertoire in the opera house, on the concert platform and in recital. Papageno is a bird catcher in this fantastical opera story, and in this aria (song), he tells us about himself while he tries to catch a bird. For Scottish Opera roles have included Marcello/La bohème, Lord Byron in the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s Monster and Count/ Figaro. He was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then became a music teacher. In the 2017/18 Season he sings Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) and Ulysses (The Return of Ulysses). British baritone Roderick Williams is another voice that really fits this score, with his playful yet secure portrayal of the US consul Sharpless. Roderick Williams was the featured soloist at the 2014 BBC Last Night of the Proms and won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award 2016.. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK opera houses and has sung opera world premières by David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michel van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel as well as roles including Papageno, Don Alfonso, Onegin and Billy Budd. He was awarded an OBE for services to music in June 2017. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. The contrast when his voice soared on a particular phrase, such as “I have lost you” in “Ihr Bild” (“Her Portrait”), proved particularly compelling when following moments of poignant intimacy. Papageno – Roderick Williams Papagena – Christina Gansch Queen of the Night – Sabine Devieilhe Monostatos – Peter Bronder Sarastro – Mika Kares First Lady – Rebecca Evans Second Lady – Angela Simkin Third Lady – Susan Platts Speaker – Darren Jeffery First … Roderick Williams – accompanied by the pianist William Vann – consolidates his reputation as our greatest living baritone with probably the finest performance I have ever heard of one of Vaughan Williams’s most renowned songs, Bushes and Briars. For Opera North his roles have included the title role of Don Giovanni, The Count/Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte, Figaro/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ned Keene and Goryanchikov/From the House of the Dead. In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the year award. Roderick Williams is one of this country’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In the 2017/18 Season he sings Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) and … Recent and future operatic engagements include Oronte in Charpentier’s Medée, Toby Kramer in Van der Aa’s Sunken Garden and Sharpless / Madam Butterfly for English National Opera, the title role in Eugene Onegin for Garsington Opera, the title role in Billy Budd for Opera North, Van der Aa’s After Life at Melbourne State Theatre and at Opera de Lyon, Captain Balstrode / Peter Grimes in a concert performance with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Papageno and Ulisse / Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria for the Royal Opera House, Toby Kramer for Dallas Opera, a concert performance of Ned Keene/Peter Grimes with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Christus / St John Passion in staged performances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment both under Sir Simon Rattle. Julia Jones conducts David McVicar’s spell-binding production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with a wonderful cast including Roderick Williams as Papageno. Williams’s recordings include several discs of English song with Iain Burnside (Naxos). Baritone Roderick Williams’s wide opera, concert, and recital repertoire spans from the Baroque to the contemporary. Roderick Williams is one of this country’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. Roderick Williams OBE is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation. He is an accomplished and highly sought after recital artist who can be heard at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, LSO St Luke’s, the Perth Concert Hall, the Concertgebouw, Oxford Lieder Festival, London Song Festival, Howard Assembly Room, the Musikverein, Vienna and on Radio 3, where he has participated on Iain Burnside’s Voices programme. Meanwhile, Roderick Williams might have been born to play Onegin, whose elegant pompousness and arrogant predation gradually dissolve into heartbreak and black despair. Roderick Williams has sung concert repertoire with all the BBC orchestras, and many other ensembles including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Russian National Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, The Sixteen, Le Concert Spirituel, and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Roderick Williams sings in the Royal Opera’s new production of The Return of Ulysses at the Roundhouse, NW1 (020 7240 1200), Jan 10-21. This biography is for website use only. Every word was filled with charisma and the energy of his carefree and genuine Papageno, and the audience became massively involved during his suicide aria - I heard someone from the balcony shout “Don’t do it!” In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the year award. Williams was a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and worked as a music teacher before training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. Opera engagements have included for Royal Opera House Covent Garden Schaunard/La bohème and Ned Keene/Peter Grimes; for English National Opera Papageno/Die Zauberflöte, Pollux in Rameau’s Castor and Pollux, and Jaufre Rudel in Saariaho’s L’amour de loin ,as well as world premieres of From Morning to Midnight by David Sawer and A Better Place by Martin Butler. His awards include Singer of the Year at the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. Roderick Williams was born as Roderick Gregory Coleman Williams. Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation with a wide repertoire spanning baroque to contemporary.. Roderick Williams had absolutely no trouble in delivering any of his text. Roderick Williams, Actor: Die Zauberflöte. He is closely associated with contemporary opera, collaborating with composers including Michel van der Aa, Sally Beamish, David Sawer and Robert Saxton. In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the year award. In this video, British baritone Roderick Williams plays the part of Papageno. Mr. Williams proved a natural and expressive communicator, conveying the drama and anguish of these miniatures without ever resorting to excessive vocal or theatrical gestures. Recent recitals include the three Schubert cycles at the Wigmore Hall, recitals for the BBC and appearances at the Ludlow Song Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, Three Choirs Festival and at the Bath International Music Festival. In 2016 he was Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder. Roderick Williams was born to a Jamaican mother and a Welsh father in 1965, and worked as a music teacher before training as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Ulysses/Human Frailty, © 2021Royal Opera HouseBow StreetCovent GardenLondonWC2E 9DD, Book onlineTickets for upcoming events are only available online, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation, a charitable company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales (Company number 480523) Charity Registered (Number 211775), Tickets for upcoming events are only available online. A little Mozart to bring some joy to your weekend. Among Roderick Williams’ many performances of opera in concert are recent appearances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tippett’s The Knot Garden (Barbican) and Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong (Royal Festival Hall) and with the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding Billy Budd. ... Mozart’s Papageno, and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. He attended Christ Church Cathedral School in Oxford and Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a public school in Hertfordshire. His numerous recordings include Vaughan Williams, Berkeley and Britten operas for Chandos, and an extensive repertoire of English song with pianist Iain Burnside for Naxos. He made his North American opera debut singing Figaro/Il barbiere di Siviglia for Florida Grand Opera. Roderick Williams as Papageno and Siobhan Stagg as Pamina Full marks to Mozart, Roderick Williams and the puppeteer who handled the hilarious movements of the bird Papageno … He took the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music. Recent and future concert engagements include performances with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé, Britten Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, King’s College Cambridge, Goldsmiths Choral Union, Ex Cathedra, The Sixteen, The King’s Consort, New London Consort, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Le Concert Spirituel, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Rias Kammerchor, Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, Danish National Radio Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Utah Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Music of the Baroque Chicago, Bach Collegium Japan, Cappella Amsterdam, New York Philharmonic, Britten War Requiem with the Maggio Musicale and Semyon Bychkov in Florence, the UK premiere of Sally Beamish’s Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as well as with Philharmonia Baroque. Williams has the rare knack of perfect comedic timing combined with vehemently expressed deep emotions. At the age of 28, he resumed music studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London. Roderick Williams shows a lovely comedic range in a playful performance as Papageno the bird catcher. The cast is headed by Roderick Williams who asserts his smooth and sensitive baritone in such a way as to emphasise Ulysses’ psychological depths. He imbued each song with myriad colorful nuances, his rich, burnished baritone lovely throughout the evening. Williams was born in North London to a Welsh father and a Jamaican mother. Roderick Williams is one of this country’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. 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