During the past few seasons Mr Burden has made debuts at the Metropolitan Opera as Janek in the The Makropulos Case and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Opera de Nice and Opera de Lausanne as Ali in Haydn's L'Incontro Improviso, the Opera companies of Philadelphia, Minnesota, and Opera di Genova as the title role in The Rake's Progress, and the New York City Opera as Fenton in Falstaff and the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier. The summer of 1997 found Mr. Burden as Pylades in Francesca Zambello's new production of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride at the Glimmerglass Opera.

Mr. Burden's exciting 1997-98 season included his return to the Metropolitan Opera, Opera de Lausanne, and New York City Opera while he will also made his debut at the Opera de Bordeaux as Ali, and with the Saito Kinen Festival in Dialogue of the Carmelites under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. The current 1998-99 season finds William Burden making his Chicago Lyric Opera debut as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet and the Florida Grand Opera as Tamino, as well as returns to the opera companies at Philadelphia and Glimmerglass as Belmonte in Entführung aus dem Serail.

Mr. Burden's concert repertoire ranges from the major oratorios of Bach, Mozart and Handel to contemporary works of Britten, Bernstein and Tippett, among others. During the 1994-95 season, he sang Handel's Messiah with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in Paris (at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées), Barcelona and Lyon. He made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra during the 1997 season in the same work, and will appear with the Minnesota Orchestra and Florida
Orchestra in Messiah in 1998.

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