WilliamThomas
Representation
About William
A graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and recipient of a number of major awards, British bass William Thomas is fast making a name for himself as one of today’s most promising young singers.
Highlights in his 2024/25 season include his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich as Colline La boheme, Sparafucile Rigoletto in a return to the English National Opera and his Carnegie Hall debut in Bach's Johannes-Passion with the Orchestra of St Luke's/Bernard Labadie.
Recent appearances have included roles for the Wiener Staatsoper, the Opéra national de Paris, La Scala, Milan; the Glyndebourne and Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festivals and, in concert, the Salzburg Festival with Camerata Salzburg/Manfred Honeck and with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/Dinis Sousa, the BBC Proms with the Britten Sinfonia/David Bates, the Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert/John Butt and with the London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra/Phillip von Steinacker.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
William Thomas sings Fiesco's aria "A te l'estremo addio...Il lacerato spirito" with pianist Nicholas Ansdell-Evans.
Credit: Opera RaRa
PlayingWilliam Thomas - The Floral Dance (CSOTW, 15th June 2023)
William Thomas performing "The Floral Dance" by Katie Moss during the Song Prize Final of the 2023 Cardiff Singer Of The World competition. Credit: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
PlayingWilliam Thomas performs ‘La Calunnia’ from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Credit: William Thomas
PlayingWilliam Thomas performs ‘Vous qui faites l’endormie’ Gounod’s Faust
Credit: William Thomas
Playing
Audio
- Mussorgsky: Song of the Flea
- Poulenc: Mazurka
News
Press
Schubert, Strauss and Wolf Recital
Wigmore HallDec 2023William Thomas has fast made an impact as a rapidly rising star of the bass world... The concert opened with an Italian flourish, as he deftly performed Schuberts's exquisite, gently satirical setting of Metastasio’s "L’incanto degli occhi". With its comically dramatic contrasts of emotion, this perfectly demonstrated Thomas’s ability to fill his voice with light or shade as the occasion demands. Each separate mood was beautifully shaped, “Ardir m’inspirate,/Se liete splendete;/Se torbidi siete,/Mi fate tremar,” (“You inspire me with daring/if you shine joyfully; if you are overcast, you make me tremble”). It was a nicely judged amuse-bouche for the richer fare to follow... ... in "Fahrt zum Hades" ("Journey to Hades") Thomas’s mastery of light and shade powerfully evoked the full emotional spectrum of a man yearning for the world he’s leaving behind.
- The Arts Desk
- 14 December 2022
