Hailed in Opera News’ review of Ned Rorem’s Our Town, Joshua Rosenblum proclaims, “The full-of-character tenor Stanley Wilson is amusingly put-upon as Simon….” The Boston Classical Review proclaims, “Stanley Wilson sang solidly in [his] role as Falstaff’s attendant,… Bardolph,” in Odyssey Opera’s production of Sir John in Love. “This is a real gem” states Henry Fogel in Fanfare magazine of Mr. Wilson’s CD, Art Songs of the British Romantics. His Master of Music is from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts in Opera Performance and continues to learn by keeping up his training with Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Sondra Kelly as well as Kamal Kahn of New York City.
Opera credits include Mime in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos,the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Bardolfo in Falstaff, El Rememdado in Carmen, Bardolph in Sir John in Love, Elder Hayes in Susannah, St. Stephen in Four Saints in Three Acts, Simon Stimpson in Our Town, Basilio and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte, Mr. Angel in The Impresario, Lorenzo in I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Jaquino in Fidelio, Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Tinca in Il Tabarro, Gherardo in Gianni Schicci, Gastone in La Traviata.
Mr. Wilson's concert work includes performances of the Bach Christmas Oratorio, Vivaldi Dixit Dominus, CPE Bach Magnificat, Handel Israel in Egypt, Handel Messiah, Handel Judas Maccabeaus, Mozart Requiem, Mozart Mass in c minor, Mozart Coronation Mass, Haydn Mass in the Time of War, Beethoven Mass in C, Mendelssohn Elijah, Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Puccini Messa di Gloria, Finzi Intimations of Immortality, the premier of Gwyneth Walkers' Come Life, Shaker Life, Schubert Mass in B-flat, Schubert Mass in E-flat, and Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio. He has sung with the Boston Classical Orchestra, New Bedford Symphony, the Salisbury Singers of Worcester, the Arlington Philharmonic, the Concord Chorus and Orchestra, the Manchester Chorale and Orchestra, the Master Singers of Worcester, the Assabet Valley Mastersingers, the Oratorio Choir of New Haven, Concert Singers of Greater Lynn and the Worcester Chorus. He has done extensive recital performing with pianist Malcolm Halliday through the Northeast and internationally. The programs range from the lieder of Schubert and Schumann to songs of Quilter, Bridge, DuParc and many other composers.
Mr. Wilson’s recordings include Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts with Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Rorem’s Our Town under the baton of Maestro Gil Rose, a video of Floyd’s Susannah, on Naxos, with St. Petersburg’s Opera conducted by Maestro Sforzini, Stanley Wilson Sings Cole Porter with arranger and pianist Ben Cook, and Art Songs of the British Romanitcs and Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe and Liederkreis with pianist Malcolm Halliday.