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Roderick Williams (born 1965) is an English operatic baritone and composer. Williams was born in North London; his father is Welsh and his mother Jamaican.〔Hannah Nepil, ("Interview with baritone Roderick Williams before ‘Albert Herring’ at the Barbican" ), FT.com/Arts, 22 November 2013. Accessed 7 September 2014.〕 He studied on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music in London. During his time there he made his operatic debut as Tarquinius in Benjamin Britten's ''The Rape of Lucretia''.〔(Allmusic Guide biography. )〕 He has appeared as a soloist with English National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, New Israeli Opera, BBC Proms and at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has also worked with orchestras throughout Europe, including all the BBC orchestras in the UK, and has given recitals at venues such as the Wigmore Hall.〔(Ingpen & Williams agency website. )〕 On 13 September 2014 Williams was soloist at the Last Night of the Proms for the first time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Two - BBC Proms, 2014 Season, Last Night of the Proms - Part 1 )〕 In the course of the evening, he performed in the Richard Strauss cantata, ''Taillefer'', sang his own arrangements of two songs, and was the soloist in "Rule Britannia".〔("BBC Proms 2014: Last Night of the Proms, review: 'soaringly carried away'" ), ''The Telegraph'', 14 September 2014. Accessed 15 September 2014.〕 He is the president of Junior Saint James Singers (Stratford-Upon-Avon choir) and is married with a son and two daughters.〔 ==Operatic repertoire== *Escamillo in ''Carmen'' by Bizet *Sid in ''Albert Herring'' by Britten *The Novice's Friend in ''Billy Budd'' by Britten *Henry Cuffe in ''Gloriana'' by Britten *Ned Keene in ''Peter Grimes'' by Britten *Tarquinius in ''The Rape of Lucretia'' by Britten *Top in ''The Tender Land'' by Copland *Belcore in ''L'elisir d'amore'' by Donizetti *Albert in ''Werther'' by Massenet *Masetto in ''Don Giovanni'' by Mozart *Guglielmo in ''Cosi Fan Tutte'' by Mozart *The Count in ''The Marriage of Figaro'' by Mozart *Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in ''War and Peace'' by Prokofiev *Marcello in ''La bohème'' by Puccini *Schaunard in ''La bohème'' by Puccini *Figaro in ''The Barber of Seville'' by Rossini *Harlequin in ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' by Strauss *Onegin in ''Eugene Onegin'' by Tchaikovsky *The King's Herald in ''Don Carlos'' by Verdi〔(Signum Records biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roderick Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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