William Blankenship

Who is William Blankenship?

William Leonard Blankenship is an American operatic tenor, music pedagogue at the collegiate level, stage and television actor, and stage director.

In Europe, Blankenship sang roles at the opera houses in Vienna, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Braunschweig, Bern, Mannheim, Brunswick, Munich, Berne, Klagenfurt, Bregenz. In the United States, he sang with the Santa Fe Opera, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. He has sung in international festivals in Moscow, Salzburg, Vienna, Munich, and Rio de Janeiro. He has concertized with major orchestras on radio and television.

He is the father of Rebecca Blankenship, an American operatic soprano.