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| William Joyner is known as a very versatile artist, at home on both the operatic and concert stages. He is a native of North Carolina, and made his debut in his early 20?s in the United States. A graduate of the Juillard School in New York City and at the Catholic University of America in Washington, William Joyner has won numerous awards, including the «Feinstein Artist of the Year Award» from the Washington Opera Guild, a «Richard F. Gold Career Grant» from the Shoshana Foundation, a «Sullivan Foundation Award», and a Silver Medal from the Rosa Ponselle Foundation. |
| In the 1999/2000 season, he made two important debuts: in the title role of Gounod's Faust at the Opéra National de Lyon, and at the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Bruxelles as Don José in Carmen, conducted by Antonio Pappano and Bertrand de Billy. At the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, William Joyner sang Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, in Catania he portrayed Tom Rakewell in The Rake?s Progress with Yoram David on the podium. He also created the role of Zen in the world première of Elliot Carter's What Next at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin conducted by Barenboim, subsequently re-proposed in the US with Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony and in Amsterdam with Radio Vara. More recently, he sang with success Carmen in New Orleans, Orlando, Charlotte and at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein) at the Opéra National de Paris, La traviata in Orlando, Manon at the Teatro Reál in Madrid and Faust at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. Particularly prestigious were his recent debuts in the role of Arturo in La straniera at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, in the role of Ruggero in La Rondine at the Arena di Verona and as Nicias in Thais at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, as well as his return to the Théâtre de La Monnaie de Bruxelles for La damnation de Faust. He has also recently taken part in his first Oper Frankfurt's productions, having sung there in Fierrabras and as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. |
| His future engagements include Manon the Oper Frankfurt, Thais in Montreal, Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein) at the Opéra National de Paris, Faust at the Teatro Municipal of Santiago, Chile. |
| In 1998/9 he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala, singing Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon. He has begun that season at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor), and went from there to the Florida Grand Opera in Miami (Macduff, Macbeth) and to the Calgary Opera in Canada (Don Josè, Carmen). He subsequently went to the Houston Grand Opera to reprise the role of Faust in Boito's Mefistofele alongside Samuel Ramey, previously performed at the Washington Opera. |
| Highlights of his 1997/8 season's engagements included his European debut at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, his performances as Don José in Carmen with the Pittsburgh Opera and the New York City Opera, as Rodolfo in La bohème with the New York City Opera, and as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Opera Omaha. He finished that season by returning to the Teatro Massimo in Palermo to sing Danilo in Die lustige Witwe. |
| William Joyner's operatic repertoire also includes La traviata (Alfredo), Vanessa (Anatol), Tosca (Cavaradossi), Der fliegende Holländer (Erik), Les contes d?Hoffmann (Hoffmann), Der Rosenkavalier (the Italian singer), The Bartered Bride (Jeník) and Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio). |
| His concert schedule includes, among others, the Requiems by Dvorak, Mozart and Verdi, Haendel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Rossini's Stabat Mater. In 1995, William Joyner made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Ninth's Symphony under the baton of Kurt Masur, a work he has just revisited at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma and with Sagra Malatestiana of Rimini. |
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