Winner of the Rising Talent award at the 2022 International Opera Awards, Nardus Williams has established herself as one of the most exciting and versatile young British singers of her generation.
In the 24/25 season, highlights include Handel Gloria with the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival and with Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century at the Concertgebouw, Mozart Mass in C in her debut with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Symphony No.9 with The Hallé, Angelo in Handel La Resurrezzione on tour with Le Banquet Celeste, a recital with Elizabeth Kenny at the Beverley Early Music Festival and Bach St John Passion with the Dunedin Consort. In opera, she returns to English National Opera as Countess Le nozze di Figaro. Williams continues with performances of her recital programme ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas…: Women’s Stories From The Ancient World’ alongside Dame Mary Beard and Elizabeth Kenny.
Last season, Williams returned to Opéra de Rouen Normandie for Donna Anna Don Giovanni and to Philharmonia Baroque as Belinda in Errollyn Wallen Dido’s Ghost, gave the world premiere of George Lewis’ The Comet / Poppea as Poppea and made her house debut as Fiordiligi Così fan tutte for Opera Australia. On the concert platform, highlights included her Berlin Philharmonie debut with Academy of Ancient Music, the title role in Handel Esther at the London Handel Festival, Fauré Requiem with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Mass in C in her debut with the LPO, Bach St Matthew Passion with The Bach Choir, Handel Brockes Passion with the English Concert, and two appearances at the BBC Proms, including Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music and a performance of her recital programme ‘I never laid eyes on Aeneas…: Women’s Stories From The Ancient World’. Williams toured with Dunedin Consort, Europa Galante and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, returned to the Wigmore Hall and made her debut album of Handel's Italian Cantatas for Linn Records with the Dunedin Consort.
Recent operatic highlights include Adina L’elisir d’amore and Countess Le nozze di Figaro for Glyndebourne, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress on the Glyndebourne tour, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Mimi La boheme and Micaëla Carmen for English National Opera, Countess Le nozze di Figaro for Opera Holland Park and the world premiere of Dido's Ghost - a co-commission with the Dunedin Consort, Mahogany Opera & TheBarbican.
A prolific concert artist and recitalist, Williams has sung Tippett A Child of Our Time with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart Mass in C at the BBC Proms, Ethel Smyth Mass in D with the BBC Symphony Orchestra alongside appearances with Oxford Lieder, Leeds Lieder, Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square.
Nardus was a member of the Houston Opera Studio for the 2018/19 season and is a former Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne and a former Harewood Artist with English National Opera. Williams trained at the International Opera School at the Royal College of Music where she was the sole recipient of the prestigious Kiri Te Kanawa Scholarship.
