Biography

Douglas Ray Williams, bass-baritone, is a singer and actor with a repertoire ranging from the early baroque to the golden age musical and contemporary opera.

He got his start in opera chorus at the 2003 Boston Early Music Festival while an undergraduate at the New England Conservatory. He then studied at Yale in the first class of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s vocal program.

In concerts and opera, Douglas has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Hungarian National Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, San Francisco Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in repertoire that includes Félicien David, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Puccini, and Stravinsky.

Douglas can be heard on a slate of classical recordings, including Die Zauberflöte for Deutsche Gramophone with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the world premiere of the late serialist Charles Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, Lully’s Alceste and Armide with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, and multiple opera recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival.