William Stone (baritone)
William Stone (born March 12, 1944, Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an American operatic baritone. He is a graduate of Duke University (B.A., 1966) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.M. 1968, D.M.A. 1979). He made his professional operatic debut in 1975 and his international debut in 1977. He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity on April 1, 2003. William Stone is a Vocal Instructor at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Curtis Institute of Music. He was Professor of Voice and Opera at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, from September, 2005 through June, 2010. Debuts *Lyric Opera of Chicago, world premiere of ''Paradise Lost'', (Adam), 29 November 1978. *New York City Opera, ''La traviata'' (Giorgio Germont), October 1981. *Seattle Opera, ''Don Carlos'' (Rodrigue), July 1993. *Metropolitan Opera, '' Roméo et Juliette'' (Capulet), 8 April 1998.Metropolitan ...
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Goldsboro, North Carolina
Goldsboro, originally Goldsborough, is a city and the county seat of Wayne County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 33,657 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of and is included in the Goldsboro, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The nearby town of Waynesboro was founded in 1787, and Goldsboro was incorporated in 1847. It is the county seat of Wayne County. The city is situated in North Carolina's Coastal Plain and is bordered on the south by the Neuse River and the west by the Little River, approximately southwest of Greenville, southeast of Raleigh, the state capital, and north of Wilmington in Southeastern North Carolina. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is located in Goldsboro. History Around 1787, when Wayne County was formed, a town named Waynesborough grew around the county's courthouse. In 1787, William Whitfield III (son of William Whitfield II) and his son were appointed "Directors and Trustees" for designing and building the ...
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