William Burden (tenor)

Since his professional debut at the San Francisco Opera in 1992, he has performed in lead roles in North America and Europe.

As an undergraduate he studied at Middlebury College and then entered the Indiana University School of Music where he received his master's degree in Vocal Performance working with Margaret Harshaw.

[1] In 1992 Burden was called to the San Francisco Opera to sing Count Lerma in Don Carlo and Janek in The Makropoulos Case.

[5] His performance in The Hours was video-cast on December 10 as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series.

[6] He performed the role of Antonin Scalia in the revised version of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg (Glimmerglass Festival, 2017).