Who is Andrew Foster-Williams?
Andrew Foster-Williams (born in Wigan, Greater Manchester) is an English operatic bass-baritone, concert singer and recitalist. Andrew Foster-Williams read music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with a first-class honours degree. He has since been made a Fellow of the Royal Academy. He won many prizes whilst at the Royal Academy; including, amongst others, The Opera Prize, The Flora Nielsen Recital Prize and The Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize. Opera appearances include Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde at la Monnaie in Brussels, the Four Villains in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Moscow, Gunther in Götterdämmerung, Lysiart in Weber's Euryanthe for Theater an der Wien, Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and in Basel, Escamillo in Carmen for the Bregenz Festival, Albert in Werther for Washington National Opera, Hidarot in a Barrie Kosky production of Gluck's opera Armide for Netherlands Opera, and Don Pizarr...
