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Willard White Biography (1946-)

Full name, Willard Wentworth White; born October 10, 1946, in St. Catherine,Jamaica; son of Egbert (a dockworker) and Gertrude White; married Gillian Jackson, 1972 (marriage ended); married second wife; children: (first marriage)three sons and one daughter; (second marriage) three children. Addresses: Contact: c/o 10 Montague Ave., London SE4 1YP, England.

Nationality

Jamaican

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor, singer

Birth Details

October 10, 1946

St. Catherine, Jamaica

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Trulove, The Rake's Progress, Washington, DC, 1974
• Colline, La boheme, New York City Opera, 1974
• Osmin, Die Entfuhrung, Welsh National Opera, Cardiff, England, 1974
• Ned, Treemonisha, Houston Grand Opera Association, Uris Theatre, New York City, then Palace Theatre, New York City, 1975
• Seneca, L'incoronazione di Poppea, English National Opera, London,1976
• Speaker, Die Zauberflote, Glyndebourne Festival, 1978
• Don Diego, L'africaine, Covent Garden, London, 1978
• Plutone, Orfeo, Salzburg Festival, 1980
• Hunding, English National Opera, 1983
• Porgy, Porgy & Bess, Glyndebourne Festival, 1986
• Title role, Othello, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1989
• Wotan, Scottish Opera, Glasgow, Scotland, 1989
• Porgy, Porgy & Bess, Covent Garden, London, 1992
• Golaud, Pelleas et Melisande, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco,CA, 1995
• Prince Ivan Khovansky, Khovanshchina, Coliseum, London, 1995
• Golaud, Pelleas et Melisande, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 1995
• Nick Shadow, The Rake's Progress, Paris, 1996
• Somnus, Semele, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1996
• Zaccaria, Nabucco, Cardiff, Wales, 1996
• Nekrotzar, Le grand macabre, Paris and Salzburg, 1997
• Mephistopheles, La damnation de Faust, Empire Theatre, London, 1997
• Title role, Flying Dutchman, Coliseum, London, 1997
• Boris Godunov, English National Opera, 1998
• Creon, Tiresais, and the Messenger, Oedipus Rex, Amsterdam Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1998
• Golaud, Pelleas et Melisande, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA, 1998, then Metropolitan Opera, 2000
• Title role, St. Francis of Assisi, 2002
• Il trovatore, Metropolitan Opera, 2002
• Roles have included Sarastro, Massimiliano, Sprecher, Leporello, Banquo,King Philip, Grand Inquisitor, Ferrando, Klingsor, Achillas, Fafner, King Henry, Orestes, Golaud, Boris, and Pizarro.
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• "Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio," Great Performances, PBS, 1991
• Porgy, "Porgy and Bess," American Playhouse, PBS, 1993
• "A Tribute to the Music of George Gershwin," Evening at Pops, PBS,1995
• Specials
• King Balthazar, Amahl and the Night Visitors, NBC, 1978
• The King, The Love for Three Oranges, 1982
• Himself, Liverpool Oratorio (also known as Great Performances:Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio and Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio), 1991
• Himself, Porgy and Bess: An American Voice, 1998
• El nino (also known as La nativite), 2000
• Porgy, Jake, and Crown in selections from Porgy and Bess, New Year's Eve All-Gershwin Concert (also known as Live from Lincoln Center: New Year's Eve All-Gershwin Concert), 2002
• RECORDINGS
• Albums
• (With Barbara Bonney, John Eliot Gardiner, Anne Sofie von Otter, Hans Peter Blochwitz) Mozart: Requiem in D Minor (K.626), Kyrie in D Minor (K.341), 1988
• (With Julianne Baird, Lynne Dawson, Anne-Sophie von Otter, Diana Montague, John Tomlinson, and Anthony Rolfe-Johnson) Monteverdi: L'orfeo, 1990
• (With Rosalind Plowright, Richard Hickox, Linda Finnie, and Arthur Davies) Mendelssohn: Elijah, 1990
• (With Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Cynthia Clarey, and others) Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, 1990
• (With Graeme McNaught) Copland: Old American Songs, 1991
• (With Kiri Te Kanawa, Jerry Hadley, Sally Burgess, and Carl Davis) McCartney-Davis: Liverpool Oratorio, 1992
• (With Josephine Barstow, Yvonne Kenny, John Mark Ainsley, and others) Britten: Gloriana, 1993
• (With Simon Rattle, Gregg Baker, Cynthia Haymon, and Damon Evans) Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, 1993
• (With Richard Hickox, Cynthia Clarey, Damon Evans, and Cynthia Hymon) Tippett: A Child of Our Time, 1993
• (With Carmen Balthrop, Betty Allen, Gunther Schuller, Curtis Ryam, and Cora Johnson) Joplin: Treemonisha, 1993
• (With Owain Arwel Hughes, Jean Rigby, Thomas Randle, and Yvonne Kenny) Handel: Messiah, 1995
• (Withy Riccardo Chailly, Hakan Hagegard, and Alessandra Marc) Zemlinsky: Lyrical Symphony, Symphonic Songs, 1995
• (With Linda Kitchen, Natalie Dessay, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Reinhard Hagen, Anton Scharinger, Steven Cole, Les Artes Florissants, Anton Scharinger, andWilliam Christi) Mozart: Die Zauber Flote, 1996

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Opera News, April, 2000, p. 28