William O’Neill
Carmina Burana
Mar 17 & 18, 2018
[See image gallery at www.socophil.org]William O’Neill appears regularly throughout the Bay Area as a singer, conductor, and director. He has performed with the San Francisco Opera, Opera Colorado, Boston Lyric Opera, West Bay Opera, The San Francisco Opera Guild, Lamplighters Music Theater, Berkeley West Edge Opera, Cinnabar Theater, Goat Hall Opera, and Pocket Opera. Mr. O’Neill is currently a full-time member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus, as well as director of music at First Congregational UCC of Santa Rosa. He also performs with various Bay Area ensembles, including most recently the Mozart Requiem with Ukiah Symphony, the Rossini Stabat Mater with Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, and the Michael Haydn Requiem with Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa.
Mr. O’Neill started singing in a church choir (where his father was music director) when he was five years old. He took on his first musical role when he was just eight. He went on to graduate from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with an M.A. in voice and opera.
Over the years, Mr. O’Neill has performed a wide range of opera and musical theater roles, including Emile de Becque in South Pacific, Sulpice in The Daughter of the Regiment, Javert in Les Miserables, Don Quixote in The Man of La Mancha, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Dulcamara in The Elixer of Love, Escamillo in Carmen, Falstaff in Verdi’s Falstaff, Marcello and Colline in La Boheme, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Don Giovanni and Masetto in Don Giovanni, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sarastro and Papageno in Die Zauberflote, Bartolo in le nozze di Figaro, Tony Esposito in The Most Happy Fella, Neville Craven in The Secret Garden, and Frederick Egerman in A Little Night Music.
