Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen is the winner of the 2025 Paris Opera Competition and the 2025 Josep Palet Competition.
Highlights of the 26/27 season include his debut at Semperoper Dresden as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti for Semper Zwei and a return to Opernhaus Zürich for Bello in Fanciulla del West, as well as his house debuts at Edinburgh International Festival, as Sciarrone Tosca English National Opera, and the title role of Hedd Wyn at Welsh National Opera.
Steffan was a member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich from 2024 -2026. His roles here included Marullo in Rigoletto, Silvano in Un ballo in Maschera, Hermann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and the title role in the Studio’s production of Gianni Schicchi.
Highlights elsewhere include Ragondin in Serch yw’r Doctor with the orchestra of Welsh National Opera and his role debut as Escamillo in Le tragédie de Carmen at the Buxton Festival, Doctor in Verdi's Macbeth for Mid Wales Opera and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte for Opera Cymru.
Upcoming and recent concert highlights include Songs of Travel with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tomáš Hanus’ last concert with the orchestra of Welsh National Opera at the Fishguard Festival singing Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, the centenary celebration with Sir Bryn Terfel at Gwyl Portmeirion Festival, 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. Other competition successes include the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship Prize and the Blue Riband Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
September 2026
