Williams has appeared with the
Israel Philharmonic at
Carnegie Hall, the
Chicago Symphony, the
Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and Tokyo, the
New World Symphony, the
Detroit Symphony, the New York, Los Angeles and Santa Fe Chamber Orchestras, as well as with orchestras throughout Europe in repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to contemporary works of living composers. Her interpretations as a recitalist have been critically acclaimed in New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Detroit as well as Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, and in Iceland. Williams' professional career began with the San Francisco Opera Center as a member of the Merola Program. She was awarded an Adler Fellowship and subsequently appeared with the company as a guest artist singing leading roles in the operas of Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Rossini. She was a member of the Berlin Staatsoper ensemble, making a critically acclaimed debut as Cleopatra in Carl Heinrich Graun's
Cleopatra e Cesare. Other roles in her repertoire include Pamina in
Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze and Blondchen in
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Susanna in
The Marriage of Figaro, Sophie in
Der Rosenkavalier, Adina in ''
L'elisir d'amore, Ännchen in Der Freischütz, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Musetta in La bohème, Gilda in Rigoletto, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Nannetta in Falstaff, as well as the Jungfrau in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron'' and Manon in Henze's
Boulevard Solitude. She is especially acclaimed for leading roles in the baroque operas of Handel, Telemann, Gassmann and Stradella at the
Handel Festival in Halle, the
Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck, Austria; the
Spoleto Festival Italy, the
Schwetzingen Festival, the
Wexford Festival in Ireland and the
styriarte festival in Graz. Williams recently made her theatrical debut in Dante’s
La Vita Nova in a co-production of the Berlin Renaissance Theater and the Bayer-Leverkusen Kulturhaus. She has appeared in nationally and internationally televised specials, including the Kennedy Center Honors Concert in a tribute to honoree Marilyn Horne, the PBS broadcast of the San Francisco Opera Gala co-hosted by Joan Sutherland and the ARTE film documentary ''L'Opera Seria''. She was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary of the San Francisco Opera Chorus as Musetta in Francesca Zambello's production of
La bohème. Her recordings include Brahms'
Ein deutsches Requiem with the Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim, Handel's
Messiah with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan, Graun's
Cleopatra e Cesare with the Concerto Köln Orchestra under René Jacobs and Cimarosa's
Il matrimonio segreto under Gabriele Bellini. ==Academic career==