Roles.
Roméo et Juliette, Metropolitan Opera,
with Anna Moffo
William Lewis is one of the Operatic Tenors with the most extensive performed repertoire
OPERA
Barber - Bill, the Lawyer - Hand of Bridge
Beethoven - Florestan - Fidelio
Bellini - Pollione - Norma
Berg - Alva - Lulu
Der Tambourmajor - Wozzeck
Andres - Wozzeck
Berlioz - Enée - Les Troyens à Carthage
Iopas - Les Troyens à Carthage
Enée - La Prise de Troie
Bénédict - Béatrice et Bénédict
Bizet - Don José - Carmen
Britten - Grimes - Peter Grimes
Ashenbach - Death in Venice
Red Whiskers - Billy Budd
Corghi - Balthasar - Blimunda
Debussy - Le Médecin - La Chute de la Maison Usher
Delibes - Gérald - Lakmé
Dpnizetti - Ernesto - Don Pasquale
Galuppi - L'Amante - Il Filosofo di Campagna
Gounod - Roméo - Roméo et Juliette
Faust - Faust
Valentin - Faust
Hagen - Miguel - Bandanna
Imbrie - Frank Sargent - Angle of Repose
Janacek - Steva - Jenufa
Boris - Katia Kabanova
Grigor - Die Sache Makropulos
Leman - Aegistus - Agamemnon
The Watchman - Agamemnon
Leoncacallo - Canio - I Pagliacci
Mascagni - Turiddu - Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet - Le Cid - Le Cid
Des Grieux - Manon
Menotti - L'Amante - Amelia al Ballo
The Muse - Poet and the Muse
Kaspar - Amahl and the Night Visitors
Monteverdi -Eumete - Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
Moussorgsky - Dimitri - Boris Godounov
Schuisky - Boris Godounov
Golitsin - Khovanshchina
Mozart - Tamino - Die Zauberflöte
Ertser Geharsnischter -Die Zauberflöte
Belmonte - Di Entfürung aus dem Serail
Ferrando - Cosi fan tutte
Don Ottavio - Don Giovanni
Idomeneo - Idomeneo
Arbace - Idomeneo
Orff - Hermes - Prometheus
Haemon - Antigone
Poulenc - Le Chevalier - Le Dialogue des Carmélites
Puccini - Pinkerton - Madama Butterfly
Cavaradossi - Tosca
Rodolfo - La Bohème
Luigi - Il Tabarro
Rinuccio - Gianni Schicchi
Dick Johnson - La Fanciulla del West
Des Grieux - Manon Lescaut
Purcell - Sailor - Dido and Aeneas
Reimann - Duke of Kent - Lear
Rossini - Almaviva - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Saint-Saëns - Samson - Samson et Dalila
Schoenberg - Aaron - Moses und Aaron
Shostakovich - Sergei - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Strauss - Herodes - Salome
Naraboth - Salome
Der Kaiser - Die Frau ohne Schatten
Midas - Die Liebe der Danae
King Pollux - Die Liebe der Danae
Matteo - Arabella
Apollo - Daphne
Aegisth - Elektra
Der Baron - Impresario
Bacchus - Ariadne auf Naxos
Guntram - Guntram
Stravinski - Oedipus - Oedipus Rex
Eumolphe - Perséphone
Tchaikovsky - Gherman - Pique Dame
Testi - Riccardo - Riccardo Terzo
Verdi - Radames - Aida
Manrico - Il Trovatore
Arrigo - I Vesperi Siciliani
Alfredo - La Traviata
Duca di Mantova - Rigoletto
Macduff - Macbeth
Carlo - I Masnadieri
Ismaele - Nabucco
Gabriele Adorno - Simon Boccanegra
Riccardo - Un Ballo in Maschera
Cassio - Otello
von Weber - Adolar - Euryanthe
Max - Der Freischütz
Wagner - Parsifal - Parsifal
Siegmund - Die Walküre
Loge - Das Reingold
Lohengrin - Lohengrin
Erik - Der Fliegende Holländer
Steureman - Der Fliegende Holländer
Melot - Tristan und Isolde
Walter - Tannhäuser
Weill - Jim - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Zandonai - Paolo - Francesca de Rimini
Malatestino - Francesca de Rimini
ORATORIO
Bach - St Matthew Passion
B Minor Mass - Bach
Beethoven - Ninth Symphony
Missa Solemnis
Britten - Saint Nicolas
Effinger - Invisible Fire
Händel - Messiah
Judas Maccabeus
Jephtha
Honegger - King David
Janacek -Glagolskaya Mass
Kodaly - Psalmus Hungaricus
Liszt - Christus
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn - Elijah
Mozart - Requiem
Orff - Carmina Burana
Catulli Carmina
Schönberg - Gurre Lieder
Stravinski - Lamentations of Jeremiah
Verdi - Requiem
Wild - Revelation
OPERETTA AND MUSICAL THEATRE
Adler and Ross - Damn Yankees - Young Joe
Bernstein - West Side Story - Tony
Candide - The Governor of Buenos Aires
Candide - The Baron
Candide - The Marquis
Coward - Bitter Sweet - Carl Linden
Forrest and Wright - Song of Norway - Rikaard
Song of Norway - Grieg
Foster - I dream of Jeannie - Stephen Foster
Gilbert and Sullivan - The Gondoliers - Marco
The Sorcerer - Alexis
Mikado - Nanki Pooh
Herbert - The Red Mill - Captain Doris
Babes in Toyland - Tom
Naughty Marietta - Captain Dick
Herman - Milk and Honey - David
Kern - Show Boat - Ravenal
Lehar - The Merry Widow - Danilo
The Merry Widow - Jolidon
Lerner - Brigadoon - Tommy
Offenbach - La Périchole - Piquillo
Porter - Can-Can - Aristide Forestier
Rodgers -The King and I - Luntha
Carousel - Mr Snow
Cinderella - The Prince
Romberg - Student Prince - Prince Karl
Desert Song - Red Shadow
Desert Song - Sid el Kar
New Moon - Robert Misson
Blossom Time - Schober
Strauss - Die Fledermaus - Eisenstein
Die Fledermaus - Alfred
A Night in Venice - Guido
Gypsy Baron - Barinkay