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F.A.: Is there any person in your life that influenced your decision?
William: There are too many to name. I started to study classical guitar and music when I was eight because the Beatles inspired me. I wanted to learn how to play and sing their songs. Then I heard Frank Sinatra on tape, then a few of Elvis’ records. Later, I explored anything from classical music to American country classics. Dancers that inspired me during my first years of dance classes were all the strong and masculine Russian dancers, including my ballet teacher from Bulgaria, Anton Kalinov, one of the most powerful I've ever seen.
F.A.: You are a dancer, actor and opera singer. What is your favorite discipline?
William: I love them all. I need to dance, I'm very physical, and I need to communicate with my body and to create movements. I used to choreograph too in the mid nineties. Opera is the most complete art on stage. Stanislavski spent some time researching and teaching opera singers at the Bolshoi in the early 1900s. He wrote a great book, "Stanislavski on Opera." Let's say opera is way more complicated than it looks, if you want to perform at a high level.
F.A.: Where did you start your career and how?
William: I started dancing in clubs and on TV in 1984, let's say a mix of jazz-hip hop-breakdancing. In the summer of 1985, I was in Connecticut and had the chance to perform on a TV program, can't remember where or what, it all happened so quickly.
I’ve danced almost everything, from classical ballet to pure physical acting, and still I feel there’s so much to explore. I had my first principal role as an opera singer in 1992 in “The Merry Widow” during a summer festival in Rome. After that, I worked at the Rome Opera and in concerts and operettas in Italy. For a promotional TV program, I toured France and Spain as well. I started taking singing classes in 1988 and was so lucky that my teachers, Francesco and Liliana Recchia, were from the old Italian school.
F.A.: Tell us a little about your training?
William: I started in Rome with Ivana Gattei, former star of the Rome Opera and later studied dance at the Renato Greco Dance Studio, a great school affiliated with the Rome Opera and the National Academy of Dance. In the following years, I took professional union classes at IALS with teachers from all over the world.
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Gracias Lucia! Y gracias a Leonardo!
Very interesting
Where we can see your work?
Why you do not post any video in FA?
I really would like to see your wok.
Manolo