William Thomas
Biography
William Thomas is an English bass opera singer. He is a graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Some of his credits include: Nicholas in the British premiere of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa at the Glyndebourne Festival, Shepherd Pelléas et Mélisande for Garsington Opera, Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Vienna State Opera, Zweiter Priester/Zweiter Geharnischter Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne, and Colline La bohème at Alexandra Palace for the English National Opera.
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Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Nicholas, the Major-Domo
A rare opportunity to see Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work – opera from the age of Hitchcock, with an atmospheric score and tense, psychological twists. Abandoned by her lover Anatol, Vanessa retreats from the world, waiting and hoping with only her mother and her niece Erika for company. But when, 20 years later, Anatol’s handsome young son arrives unexpectedly, he shatters the calm of this shuttered household of women. Past and present love collides, and the aftershocks threaten to destroy them all.