William Horne (10 August 1913 – 19 April 1983) was an American operatic tenor who, after World War II, performed with the New York City Opera.
Horne made his operatic debut with the New York City Opera in 1944, singing the role of Chevalier des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
Horne also sang Jo the Loiterer, a leading tenor role in the 1947 world premiere of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All in May 1947 at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Hall.
[6] In 1946, Horne won an ovation singing the role of Lenski in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Town Hall in New York City.
Cleveland-born soprano Brenda Miller and Chicago-born contralto Margery Mayer Voutsas (1918–2014) were the sisters, Tatiana and Olga; Bulgarian-born baritone Ivan Petroff (1899–1963) sang the title role; Laszlo Halasz conducted.