The bass-baritone, Sir Willard White, studied at the Jamaican School of Music and The Juilliard School in New York. Since his debut at the New York City Opera, he has been a guest in many renowned opera houses worldwide.
Recent and future highlights include Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande (Los Angeles Philharmonic), Ibn-Hakia in Iolanta (Lyon, Aix-en-Provence), Vodník in Rusalka (Scottish Opera), Commendatore in Don Giovanni (De Munt Brussels), Wotan in Das Rheingold (Mariinsky Theater), Klingsor in Parsifal, Pope Clément VII in Benvenuto Cellini (English National Opera), Hercules in Alceste (Teatro Real), Babylon (Bayerische Staatsoper), Gorianchikov in From the House of the Dead (Berlin), Schigolch in Lulu (English National Opera, Rome), and Creon, Tiresias and Messenger in Oedipus Rex (Royal Festival Hall, Salzburger Festspiele).