American tenor William Burden, who makes his LA Opera debut as Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw (March 2011), has won an outstanding reputation in a wide-ranging repertoire throughout Europe and North America.

He has appeared in many prestigious opera houses in the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Thèâtre du Châtelet, Bayerische Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper, Madrid's Teatro Real and the Saito Kinen Festival. His many roles include the title roles of Faust, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Rake's Progress, Roméo et Juliette, Béatrice and Bénédict, Candide, and Acis and Galatea; Captain Vere in Billy Budd, Don Jose in Carmen, Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Pylade in Iphigénie en Tauride, Narraboth in Salome, Gerald in Lakmé, Fenton in Falstaff, Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, and Aschenbach in Death in Venice. He also created the role of Gilbert Griffiths in the world premiere of Tobias Picker's An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera.

In concert, Mr. Burden has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and with Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Barcelona and Lyon. This past summer he made his Edinburgh Festival debut as the title role in Judas Maccabeus, conducted by William Christie.

Mr. Burden's recordings include Barber's Vanessa (Anatol) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on the Chandos label and Musique adorable: The Songs of Emmanuel Chabrier for the Hyperion label.

During the 2009/10 season, Mr. Burden tours Europe with William Christie and Les Arts Florissant, and returns to the Glyndebourne Festival and to the Seattle Opera for the world premiere of Daron Hagen's Amelia. He also appears with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in performances of Oedipus Rex, the St. Paul Chamber Music Society in performances of The Rake's Progress and at the Monnaie in Brussels in performances of La Belle Helene.

Raised in Florida, Mr. Burden received his master's degree in Vocal Performance at Indiana University. He was also a member of the Merola Program in San Francisco and at the Apprentice Artists Program at the Santa Fe Opera.