William Amory
Lyric Spinto Baritone
William Amory is a spinto baritone and sings the dramatic roles that require a consummate musician and an excellent actor. Among the complex characters that he has performed on stage are Verdi’s Renato in un Ballo in Maschera, Germont in La Traviata, Ford in Falstaff, Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore, and the title role of Rigoletto. In addition, he has sung the roles Enrico in Donizetti’s Lucia and the formidable Scarpia in Tosca.
It was in Aldeburgh that Mr. Amory made his European opera debut as Ford in the Britten-Verdi Aldeburgh Festival’s Falstaff under the baton of Steuart Bedford. Internationally, Mr. Amory has also performed as Eurymaque in Fauré’s Pénélope in Sydney and has toured Austria in recital. California audiences have heard Mr. Amory perform with Pocket Opera, Berkeley Opera, and Pacific Repertory Opera, among others, in such roles as Dulcamara, Germont, Basilio, Di Luna, Figaro (Mozart), Dandini, Belcore, Lescaut, Scarpia, and Gérard.
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Mr. Amory’s recent appearances have included the King in Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Avery Fisher Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein, Renato in Ballo in Maschera with the Opera Company of Brooklyn, the Messenger in Martin Halpern’s The Satin Cloak at Symphony Space, and Beckmesser in Berkeley Opera’s Die Meistersinger. He recorded The Die Liebe der Danae on the Telarc label.
As a concert singer, Mr. Amory has appeared as the bass soloist in The Messiah, The Creation, Brahms’ Requiem, and The B Minor Mass. He has also appeared in recital, and has had the honor of working closely with composers Martin Halpern, Ernst Bacon, and Matthew Owens in preparing and performing their works.
William Amory began his musical education in the San Francisco Boys Chorus under the direction of Madi Bacon. He continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied Lied and Oratorio, and at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England in master classes in opera and song.
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