Leo Williams

Leo Williams is a proud alumnus of Indiana University and recipient of The Georgina Joshi International Grant, The Jacobs Premier, and The Schmidt Foundation Scholarships. Williams hosts an active performing career overseas (spanning five continents) appearing in: La Bohème, L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Don Giovanni. Williams was a 2020 Opera Maya Studio artist, Berlin Opera Academy Principal Artist, and an Opernfest Prague Fellow. Recent debuts include: Cavaradossi: Puccini’s Tosca for the Sitzprobe with The Naples Philharmonic, in Puccini’s Tosca Gulfshore Opera (Naples, Fl), Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth (Australia), Don Ottavio, and Tamino in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte (Germany). Williams is a 24/25 Season Grantee of the Olga Forrai Foundation for Dramatic Voices, and Winner of The Prix d’honneur, Euterpe Music Awards, First Prize, Association Musicale du Centre France Music competition, and The Johanna Gilbert Memorial Voice Award from the Tuesday Musicale of Detroit 23 Season and Finalist in The UNISA International Voice Competition (South Africa). In the 23/24 season Williams starred in the Opera Grand Rapids production of: Die Entführung aus dem Serail as Belmonte, Lead the Boca Raton Sinfonia as Tenor Soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings, and returned to Gulfshore Opera covering Prince Calaf and sang Pang in Turandot. Most recently, Leo sang "Nessun Dorma" in place of Andrea Bocelli in his Orchestra Dress Rehearsal in February. Williams wielded a stentorian Remus at Orlando Opera in Treemonisha and thereafter starred in Opera Wyoming’s Production of Carmen as Don José.