Willard White

At the 2010 Stars of the White Nights festival, Willard White is making his Mariinsky Theatre debut, performing Bartok s opera Duke Bluebeard s Castle with Elena Zhidkova. But St Petersburg audiences first saw White in December last year, when the singer took part in a performance of Wagner s Tristan und Isolde and Berlioz La Damnation de Faust at the Concert Hall and delighted the public with a recital ranging from bel canto arias to American 20th century classics. That is when our conversation took place