William Shimell

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Shimell
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Sep 23, 1952(1952-09-23)
Age	72
Birthplace	Brentford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

William Shimell Biography

William Shimell is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on September 23, 1952 in Brentford, England, United Kingdom. William Shimell (born Brentwood, Essex 23rd September 1952) is an English baritone who has enjoyed an professional and international success singing in operas as well as on the concert stage from the 1980s onwards. He in recent times, has appeared in film roles that were not singing.

In Covent Garden he made his debut as Schaunard in La boheme in 1985. He then went on to sing in then singing as Schaunard in Cosi fan tutte (1986 and 1992 with Guglielmo), Werther (1987 – Albert), Capriccio (1991 – Olivier), La boheme (1996 – Marcello) as well as The Rake’s Progression (2010 as Nick Shadow), Cosi fan tutte (2010 – Don Alfonso), and Manon (2010 – De Bretigny). In the Metropolitan Opera in New York Shimell made his debut in La boheme in 1996, singing Marcello and continued with Cosi fan tutte (1996 and 2010 (both as Don Alfonso), Madama Butterfly (2000 – Sharpless), Manon (2005 – De Bretigny) and Iphigenie in Tauride (2007 Iphigenie en Tauride (2007 – Thoas).

In 1983, Shimell received his Shell International Opera Prize and He sang in The Last Night of the Proms in 1984.

William Shimell Net Worth

William Shimell is one of the richest Actor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Shimell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was part of in the choir in Kent Opera in 1978 and performed as the role of an usher at Rigoletto along with them in 1980 , and Venus as well as Adonis throughout Venice. UK in the UK and Venice. In Sadler’s Wells in 1981 he was the Young Scrooge in the Musgrave’s Christmas Carol.

It was Masetto during Don Giovanni in February 1980 at the London Coliseum for English National Opera and went into singing Gregory in the production’s new version of Romeo and Juliet in March 1981, and then the role of a Herald in the stage production Otello in September 1981 as well as other roles later on in the company. His debut was at Glyndebourne Opera, in the month of May, singing the Count Almaviva as well as on stage at the La Scala in 1991 as Baron Dourlinski from Lodoiska. Other opera companies where performed in the earlier period of his career are San Francisco Opera (1988), Frankfurt Opera (1988), Grand Theatre Geneva (1989), Vienna State Opera (1990), Lyric Opera Chicago (1991).

In 2008 Shimell was working with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami in a production of Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, when Kiarostami offered him a non-singing role in a film. Shimell had very little knowledge of cinema, but his fluency in French and Italian helped during filming (the initial script had been translated from Persian to French to English). The film, Certified Copy (Copie conforme), was released in 2010. Shimell then took a role in the film Amour (2012).

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William Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. William Shimell celebrates birthday on September 23 of every year.