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Rick Williams
Rick
Williams sings the role of Stefano in Viva
la mamma. Previous performances at West Bay
Opera include Tosca (Sacristan), The
Barber of Seville (Dr. Bartolo) and Candide (Voltaire and Pangloss).
Mr. Williams is familiar to audiences of the San Francisco Lamplighters;
he has performed all of
the Gilbert and Sullivan comic patter barotine roles and leading roles
in many operettas and musicals. He received a Bay Area Critics’ Circle
Award for his performance as Ko-Ko in The Mikado in 1986, and again
in 2000 for his performance with the
Willows Theater as John Adams in 1776. He appeared as King Gama in the
Lamplighters’award-winning production of Princess Ida at the 1995
International Gilbert
and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England.
Along with the Lamplighters, he has appeared with Pocket Opera, Berkeley Contemporary Opera, Peninsula Civic Light Opera, and Piedmont Light Opera Theater in such roles as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Baron Zeta and Njegus in The Merry Widow, Frosch in Die Fledermaus, Lutz and Toni in The Student Prince, Madame Quimper-Keradec in La Vie Parisienne, the Governor, Baron, and Grand Inquisitor in Candide, Fagin in Oliver, Dickinson in 1776, and Og in Finian’s Rainbow.
