Douglas Ray Williams is a singer and an actor of wide ranging interests, abilities, and repertoire. This season he appears in in the role of Manuel Toulon in Huang Ruo’s 2022 opera, M. Butterfly, at the the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels, and as Stanley Kowalsky in Tennessee Williams’ iconic play, A Streetcar Named Desire, at The Modern Rep in Minneapolis. In concerts and opera Douglas has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Hungarian National Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Neues Orchester Basel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Swedish Chamber Orchestra in repertoire that includes Félicien David, Handel, Haydn, Martinů, Mozart, Puccini, and Stravinsky. Douglas can be heard on a slate of classical recordings, including Die Zauberflöte for Deutsche Gramophone with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Grammy-winning recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival, the world premiere of the late serialist Charles Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This, and recordings of Lully’s Alceste and Armide with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques. As an actor he’s appeared as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl at the Maine State Music Theatre, Bobby Biberti in Barry Manilow’s Harmony at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre, and wrote and performed three solo shows and an audio play entitled The Compound. He trained at the New England Conservatory of Music, Yale School of Music, Tanglewood Music Center, and Shakespeare & Company. Douglas is a passionate amateur naturalist and holds deep wonder for the forests of western New England and the Great Basin of the intermountain American west.