William Stevens

Bass

William Stevens is a singer and conductor who studied singing with Donald Maxwell at the RWCMD. 

He enjoys singing a variety of comic and dramatic roles on stage including the title roles in Le nozze di Figaro and Sweeney Todd, Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte, Fasolt/Das Rheingold, Olin Blitch/Susannah, Nick Shadow/The Rake’s Progress, Superintendent Budd/Albert Herring, Dulcamara/L’elisir d’amore, and numerous Gilbert and Sullivan roles. He is currently preparing Il Commendatore/Don Giovanni and the title roles in Don Pasquale and Bluebeard’s Castle.

He is the Artistic Director of Cardiff Opera and the Musical Director of Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, The Idris Consort, and CitySound Voices and has conducted major symphonic, choral, and operatic works by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler, Sullivan, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Pärt.


Previously for Longborough: Fasolt (cover)/Das Rheingold (2024), Hagen (cover)/Götterdämmerung (2024, 2023), Sylvano/La Calisto (2019)