William Ingle studied at the Princeton University in New Jersey (music and choir conducting) and
would have liked to become a hornist, which he was during his military service. As a choir soloist he made a
six-month-tour through 22 countries in Asia and subsequently decided to become an opera singer. He won a singing contest
and studied opera (singing and acting), German, Italian and French at the Academy of Vocal Arts. After an engagement as a
tenor soloist in one of the largest churches of Philadelphia, he went to Italy on a Fulbright scholarship and studied
singing with Luigi Ricci at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.
First engagements in opera and concerts in Europe followed.
Three years in Germany at opera houses like Kassel, Hannover, Frankfurt, and finally concert tours to Denmark. In this
period, his repertoire was: Tamino in Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Alfredo in
Traviata and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.
Then Ingle settled in Austria and was heard in all the smaller Austrian theatres (Graz, Klagenfurt,
Landestheater Salzburg, Linz, Vienna Volksoper, Theater an der Wien), plus in TV and radio broadcasts.
Reference: Ars Electronica (1984)
