Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen joins the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera for the 24/25 season. His roles at Zurich will include Usciere Rigoletto, Silvano Un ballo in Maschera, and Hermann Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
In 2024 he made his role debut as Escamillo Le tragédie de Carmen at the Buxton Festival, to great crticial acclaim, described as ‘striking’ in The Times. Other roles include The Doctor in Verdi's Macbeth for Mid Wales Opera, Brenin in the premiere of the children’s opera Cyfrinach y Brenin by Mared Emlyn and Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte for Opra Cymru. He also performed the roles of Sciarrone and Jailer in a semi-staged production of Tosca alongside Sir Bryn Terfel with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.
Concert highlights include Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestre National de Bretagne in Rennes conducted by Grant Llewelyn and Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasy as part of a concert with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, reconstructing the historic Benefit Concert given by Beethoven in Vienna in 1808.
Steffan is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music. His competition successes the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship Prize, the Blue Riband Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
September 2024
