Biography
In the 2024/2025 season, British/German spinto soprano Belinda Williams makes her debut as GERHILDE at the British Wagner Society's 25th Anniversary Concert alongside Sir John Tomlinson and conducted by Lionel Friend, delivers her role debut as SUOR ANGELICA, returns to the role of DONNA ANNA in France, and takes her award winning Fringe show Show:Girls to the Edinburgh Festival.
In recent seasons, Belinda has appeared as GERTRUD Hänsel und Gretel in Wuppertal, conducted by musical director Julia Jones and directed by Denis Krief, and the following season Belinda returned to Wuppertal as THESEUS’ MOTHER in the German premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Das Labyrinth. At Staatstheater Kassel, Belinda was Offenbach’s eponymous DIE GROßHERZOGIN VON GEROLSTEIN and recently made her debut as DONNA ANNA Don Giovanni at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
Belinda began her career as a mezzo-soprano, making her European debut as Dorabella at the Staatstheater Kassel in 2012 shortly after graduating from the Royal Academy Opera Course. Her debut appearance won her the Nachwuchsförderpreis for best young talent and she was immediately invited to join the ensemble in Kassel, where Belinda stayed for 5 seasons singing roles including Hänsel, Orlofsky, Annina, Maddalena, and Baba the Turk.
Belinda was born in London and graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music Opera Course, also training with ENO, at Trinity College of Music, and Complicité Theatre. Belinda made her Wigmore Hall debut recital in 2010 whilst still a young student after winning the Tillett Trust Young Artists’ Competition. In 2014, Belinda was chosen to be a scholar and recitalist at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and in 2021 she was named the Women's Radio Classic Future Woman of the Year.
Other notable performances have included, Carmen at Sadler's Wells; the world premiere of the role of Li in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen!, directed by David Pountney; the title role in new opera La Bisbetica at the Bergamo Festival; the Estonian premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland cond. Olari Elts in Tallinn; The Evil Queen in the German premiere of Wolfgang Mitterer's Schneewittchen; and Lovely Lady in Purcell: His Ground by David Knotts (Royal Opera House).
