Harriet Williams

Mezzo-Soprano

Harriet Williams made her ROH, Covent Garden debut as Erster Knappe/ Parisfal and ENO debut as Polinesso/Ariodante.

She sang Duparc songs on stage at the ROH with the Royal Ballet in L’Invitation au Voyage, returning to perform Flosshilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen under Antonio Pappano and Girl in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.

She has sung principal roles with Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Grange Park Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Early Opera Company and Opéra de Toulon.

Major concert performances include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Ravel’s Chansons madécasses with the Northern Sinfonia at The Sage, Gateshead and on tour in Hong Kong, and Bach Cantata No. 21 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo, also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

She appeared as Flosshilde in a semi-staged concert performance of Das Rheingold with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall.

Recent engagements include Mrs Olsen/ Street Scene (Teatro Real in Madrid and Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monaco); and Fricka/Die Walküre (Grimeborn Opera Festival).


Previously for Longborough: Waltraute (cover), Second Norn/Götterdämmerung (2023), Fricka (cover)/Die Walküre (2021), Brangäne/Tristan und Isolde (2017 & 2015), Waltraute/Die Walküre (2013)