Douglas Williams (also billed as Douglas Ray Williams) is an American bass-baritone and actor. Raised in Farmington, Connecticut, he trained at the New England Conservatory, the Yale School of Music, the Tanglewood Music Center and Shakespeare & Company, and is now based in Berlin. His repertoire spans four centuries, from Monteverdi, Lully, Handel, Bach and Mozart to romantic and contemporary works and musical theatre. He has sung Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Don Giovanni with Opera Atelier, Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande, and Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress with Barbara Hannigan and the Munich Philharmonic, and has appeared with orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the London Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. His recordings include Die Zauberflöte (Priest / Armed Man) with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for Deutsche Grammophon, the Grammy-winning La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers by Charpentier, Lully's Alceste and Armide, and Charles Wuorinen's It Happens Like This. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Douglas Williams
Alternative Spellings Douglas Ray Williams
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