Ron Williams is delighted to make his first appearance at Amazing Things. He has performed leading roles with opera companies nationally, including San Francisco Spring Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre and Opera San Jose, where he created the role of Edward in the world premiere of Alva Henderson’s The Last Leaf.
Locally, Ron debuted with Boston Lyric Opera in the revival of Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars, receiving critical acclaim from The New York Times. He portrayed nemesis Nick Shadow in the much-heralded production of The Rake’s Progress with Opera Laboratory Theater Company at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe praised his performance of Figaro in Opera New England’s The Barber of Seville.
Mr. Williams was a regional finalist in the San Francisco Opera National Auditions. He received the College Foundation Award from the California Music Teachers Association. Ron remains passionately interested in arts education for young audiences and has performed at the National Children’s Arts Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
Mr. Williams maintains a busy concert schedule having performed with The Nashua Symphony, Chorus Northshore, Symphony Pro Musica, Wellesley Symphony, as well as Dartmouth College Symphony (N.H.). Ron performed the biblical narrator in King David by Arthur Honneger with The Masterworks Chorale under the direction of the late Allen Lannom. Last fall Ron narrated The Adventures of John Manjiro, a new work by Yoko Nakatani at Old South Meeting House.
Ron made his European debut with the DĂĽsseldorf Chamber Orchestra in Germany and has performed on the European stage in several countries including The Netherlands, France, Denmark Austria, Switzerland and Spain.
An artist committed to bringing to the stage compositions of twentieth-century Americans, Ron has researched and performed the works of Hale Smith (Mediation in Passage). He has been involved with the premiere of several works locally including Elmer Gantry, a new American opera by Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein.
A wonderful rite of passage, Ron was a proud father as his 12 year son, boy soprano Ryan Williams made his Boston Lyric Opera debut in the Britten opera Turn of the Screw last month. Future dates for Ron include solo appearances with Boston Cecilia in Britten’s Cantata Misericordium and Vaughn-Williams Dona Nobis Pacem with Chorus Northshore.
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