Harriet Williams

Mezzo-soprano Harriet Williams made her Royal Opera House debut in 2017 as Erster Knappe (Parsifal), returning as Flosshilde (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and Girl (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny). She was featured as a soloist with The Royal Ballet, performing six Duparc songs in L’Invitation au voyage. She has sung principal roles with the Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, Grange Park Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, the Early Opera Company and the Chelsea Opera Group.

Williams’ repertory includes title roles in Guilio Cesare, Carmen and Ariodante, Waltraute (Die Walküre), Bradamante (Alcina), Ottavia, Arnalta and Fortuna (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Mistress Quickly (Falstaff), Fenena (Nabucco), Hannah Kennedy (Maria Stuarda), Smeton (Anna Bolena), Flora and Annina (La traviata), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Albine (Thaïs), Pauline and Governess (The Queen of Spades), Nenila (The Enchantress), Parseis (Esclarmonde), Madame Larina (Eugene Onegin), Mag (La jolie fille de Perth), Erda (Das Rheingold), Zweite Norn (Götterdämmerung), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) and Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande).