Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen is a member of the International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera. He was awarded First Prize at the 2025 Josep Palet Competition and has been selected as finalist for the 2025 Paris Opera Competition. This season his roles at Zürich include Marullo in Rigoletto, Silvano in Un ballo in Maschera and the title role in the Studio’s production of Gianni Schicchi. His future plans include debuts with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and at Edinburgh International Festival.
Highlights of the 2024/ 2025 season included Usciere in Rigoletto, Silvano in Un ballo in Maschera, and Hermann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann for Zürich Opera. He joined the orchestra of Welsh National Opera as Ragondin in Serch yw’r Doctor.
In 2024, he made his role debut as Escamillo in Le tragédie de Carmen at the Buxton Festival to great critical 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 Opera Cymru.
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 include the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship Prize and the Blue Riband Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
July 2025
