Daniel Lewis Williams
Daniel Lewis Williams (* 1950 ) is an American-German opera singer (bass).
Life
Daniel Lewis Williams ( Basso profondo ) grew up in Billings, Montana (USA). In childhood he sang as a boy soprano in operas and concerts in the western United States. After his voice broke, he initially concentrated primarily on musicals. At sixteen he was the winner of the Kiwanis International Talent Competition in New York City, USA.
After completing his BA in Rhetoric and Drama at the University of Utah , Williams moved to Munich. There he continued his studies at the University of Music and Theater in Munich under Raimund Grumbach. His teachers were also Ernst Haefliger , Kammersänger Kurt Böhme and Kurt Moll .
Williams' career in Europe began at the Trier Opera . As a bass, he has performed at the theaters in Kiel and Krefeld and, from 1989, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein .
Williams achieved his breakthrough as Ochs von Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier , which he has already sung internationally in twenty-two new productions. He has appeared as an opera singer at many houses in Europe as well as at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto (Italy). As before, he gives guest appearances at the State Theater in Hamburg, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Bavarian State Opera , the Opera Trieste in Italy, the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (USA) and the Semper Opera in Dresden.
His repertoire mainly includes works by Beethoven , Giuseppe Verdi , Mozart , Antonín Dvořák , Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakovich , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Carl Loewe and Igor Stravinsky . Williams is a member of the Bavarian State Opera .
He has three children and lives on the Ammersee . Together with his daughter Judith Williams , who is also an opera singer, he produced two CDs of his own in 2000 ( With Love ) and 2003 ( Träume ).
Reviews
"Daniel Lewis Williams, a bass voice with enormous power and supporting strength with a sonorous timbre."
"It offered a shiny low 'E' at the end of Act 2 ... it was a thundering delight."
“Vocally brilliant and sovereign, the Baron of Daniel Lewis Williams. The vocals and the acting cannot be praised enough. "
"[...] in it the Ochs auf Lerchenau: Daniel Lewis Williams sings it compactly, with vocal elegance bursting with strength."
“Daniel Lewis Williams bursts in as ox, his vital desire is also infected by calculation. Everything turns into a grandiose grotesque - the absurdity is spread out with such unrestrained humor under the magnifying glass of the stage, every vein of social and psychological bizarre veins visible that the genre was filled with grandeur: I've never been able to laugh like this here. Williams is a brisk ox, whose voice indeed reminds of his teacher Kurt Böhme, effortlessly and brilliantly he overcomes the cliffs of the game, does not owe anything Viennese art and achieves in III. Act captivating highlights. "
Discography
- Rocco, Fidelio , Opera di Roma, Rome, Italy
- Dansker, Billy Budd , Bavarian State Opera, Munich
- Wood chopper, royal children , Bavarian State Opera, Munich
- Peneios, Daphne , Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, Italy
- Daland, Flying Dutchman , Theater of the City of Trier
- Timur, Turandot , National Reisopera, Holland
Web links
- Daniel Lewis Williams homepage
- Daniel Lewis Williams (Bavarian State Opera)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Williams, Daniel Lewis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-German opera singer (bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |