Tenor

William Pearson

Biography

William is delighted to be joining the INO Opera Studio this year. He completed his MA in Opera Performance from the David Seligman Opera School at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama along with his BMus (Hons) in Music Performance under the tutelage of Adrian Thompson.

Over the last year William has featured in INO’s 2022/23 season as a member of the company chorus including playing the role of Faninal’s Major Domo and covering the Italian Tenor & Landlord in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.

William has had the pleasure of performing various opera roles including Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Quint in Britten's The Turn of the Screw, the Mayor in Britten's Albert Herring, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and Don Basilio in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. As well as opera work, William is an avid oratorio and mass singer performing Mozart’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion regularly.