Nardus Williams
Nardus Williams, winner of the Rising Star award at the 2022 International Opera Awards, has quickly become one of the most exciting and versatile British singers of her generation. Praised for her 'magnetism' and 'unobtrusive intimacy' (The Arts Desk), she has 'confirmed her place as an outstanding artist' (Early Music Review).
In the 2025/26 season, Nardus makes her role debut in the title role of Partenope for English National Opera (ENO); reprises the role of Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro in a new production for Norwegian National Opera; and appears as Asteria in Tamerlano for the London Handel Festival.
In concert, Nardus tours Handel’s Solomon with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, singing the role of Solomon’s Queen; performs Messiah with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, and Dunedin Consort; and joins the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland for Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri in the title role. Nardus also returns to ENO for Mozart’s Women, which will be filmed for Sky Arts.
Building on the success of her recital appearances at the BBC Proms and Snape Maltings, Nardus returns to Wigmore Hall on International Women’s Day with a new programme in collaboration with Elizabeth Kenny and Dame Mary Beard. She also gives further recitals with Elizabeth Kenny at Leeds Song, Brighton Early Music Festival, Banbury Early Music Festival, and again at the Wigmore Hall.
Recent operatic highlights include Poppea (The Comet / Poppea) at MOCA in Los Angeles; Belinda (Dido’s Ghost), a co-commission between Dunedin Consort, Mahogany Opera, and the Barbican; Adina (L’elisir d’amore) and Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) for Glyndebourne; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) for ENO and Opera Australia; Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) for Opéra de Rouen Normandie; and Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress) on the Glyndebourne Tour.
Nardus has performed at the BBC Proms in Handel’s Messiah with Academy of Ancient Music and in Mozart’s Mass in C minor with NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. Other highlights include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (LPO); Fauré’s Requiem (Toronto Symphony); Tippet’s A Child of Our Time (RLPO); and Bach’s St John Passion (Dunedin Consort).
