Tenor William Scott Mize was most recently a guest soloist in an Evening of Opera
hosted by the Gainesville (GA) Promusica Concert Series. In September he sang
Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas for Capital City Opera. His previous experiences with
Capitol City Opera include; Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas, Prince Dimmly in Meanwhile
Back at Cinderella's and Don Octave in The Stoned Guest, Steve in A Streetcar Named
Desire, Thomas Putnam in The Crucible, the Summer ’06 Opera Gala, and several
Dinner and a Diva programs. He sang Spoletta in Tosca and Marco in The Gondoliers
for Opera North. Concert appearances include Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, a
program featuring excerpts from Don Giovanni with the North Carolina Symphony
and excerpts from La traviata for the North Carolina Governor’s Gala. He worked for
three years in the Atlanta Opera Chorus. Scott is still active in theatre having
completed a run of The Three Musketeers, in which he portrayed Porthos, with Turning
Pointe Theatre in Cumming, GA. Other nonopera stage work includes Tom in The
Glass Menagerie, Jimmy in The Rainmaker, Cliff in Cabaret, and the Narrator/Old
Man in Into the Woods.
Mr. Mize received a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the North Carolina
School of the Arts while serving as a fellow in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute.
During his studies at NCSA he sang the role of Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Alamiro
in Donizetti’s Belisario, as well as numerous lead tenor roles in excerpt programs. He
appeared in over thirty performances of the educational outreach program The Butcher
of Seville and participated in master classes given by Virginia Zeani, Ruth Golden and
William Stone. His Bachelor of Arts in Music is from Clayton College and State
University, in Morrow, GA. While attending CCSU he appeared as Ecclictico in Il
Mondo della Luna by Haydn and Bob in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the
Thief.
Upcoming engagements include an evening of operetta in March and Mario
Cavaradossi in a concert of excerpts from Tosca in April for Capital City Opera.