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Keiron Cooke

Keiron Cooke

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Will Pate

Will Pate

Associate Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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About William

A graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and recipient of a number of major awards, British bass William Thomas is fast making a name for himself as one of today’s most promising young singers.

He has appeared at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Opéra national de Paris, the Glyndebourne and Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto festivals, the English National Opera, Garsington Opera, the Grange Festival and the Opéra de Rouen Normandie. Future seasons see him return to the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and make his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.

On the concert platform he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival with Camerata Salzburg/Manfred Honeck and with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/Dinis Sousa, at the BBC Proms with the Britten Sinfonia/David Bates, the Edinburgh Festival with The English Concert/John Butt and with the London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra/Phillip von Steinacker.

William is based in London

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Britten Peter Grimes (Hobson)
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Glyndebourne
Haydn The Creation The Glyndebourne Sinfonia James Henshaw (conductor)
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Rossini Stabat Mater Hallé Orchestra Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

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  • Mussorgsky: Song of the Flea
  • Poulenc: Mazurka

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  • Schubert, Strauss and Wolf Recital

    Wigmore Hall
    Dec 2023

    • William Thomas has fast made an impact as a rapidly rising star of the bass world... The concert opened with an Italian flourish, as he deftly performed Schuberts's exquisite, gently satirical setting of Metastasio’s "L’incanto degli occhi". With its comically dramatic contrasts of emotion, this perfectly demonstrated Thomas’s ability to fill his voice with light or shade as the occasion demands. Each separate mood was beautifully shaped, “Ardir m’inspirate,/Se liete splendete;/Se torbidi siete,/Mi fate tremar,” (“You inspire me with daring/if you shine joyfully; if you are overcast, you make me tremble”). It was a nicely judged amuse-bouche for the richer fare to follow... ... in "Fahrt zum Hades" ("Journey to Hades") Thomas’s mastery of light and shade powerfully evoked the full emotional spectrum of a man yearning for the world he’s leaving behind.

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