Douglas Ray Williams is a singer and an actor of wide ranging interests, abilities, and repertoire. Last year he appeared with the San Francisco Symphony in Messiah, as the narrator in Lincoln Portrait with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl at the Maine State Music Theatre, and as Nick Shadow in The Rakes Progress with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. In concerts and opera Douglas has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Houston Symphony, Hungarian National Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in repertoire that includes Félicien David, Handel, Haydn, 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 written two 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.