This season Welsh tenor Trystan Llŷr Griffiths makes his house and role debut as Steuermann in The Flying Dutchman for Opera de Monte Carlo, he will then reprise the role of Steuermann for Welsh National Opera, before making his debut at La Monnaie as Spoletta in Tosca.
Highlights of the 2024/ 2025 season included his Opera North debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute, a hugely successful run as Alfred in Die Fledermaus for The Grange Festival and a return to WNO as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and Young Lover in Il Tabarro.
Trystan enjoys a particularly close relationship with WNO where his roles have included Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Beppe in I Pagliacci. Highlights elsewhere include Tamino for Opéra National du Rhin, Oronte in Alcina for Opéra National de Lorraine, Kudrjaš in Káťa Kabanová for Opéra National de Lorraine and Scottish Opera. For Garsington Opera he has performed Don Ottavio and Jaquino in concert performances of Fidelio. He made his role debut as Fenton in Falstaff for West Green House Opera.
Concert highlights include a concert of music by Leonard Bernstein with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest conducted by Alexander Shelley at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestre Prométhée at Festival de Lacoste, Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall, Classic FM Live at the Royal Albert and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. He made his BBC Proms debut performing Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, conducted by Sakari Oramo.
His self-titled debut album was released on the SAIN label in 2015. Trystan featured as the tenor soloist in a recording of O Holy Night with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Classic FM’s ‘Nation’s Favourite Carols Album’, and he performed the role of Carlos in a recording of Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder for Opera Rara.
Trystan has won numerous awards, including the Second Prize at the Paris Opera Competition at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Trystan was named the ‘Voice of Wales’ by Decca Records after a search of over 600 singers in a series televised by S4C. In 2024, he became an honorary patron for LARS (Loud Applause Rising Stars), a unique, non-profit organisation, which identifies, nurtures, and supports talented young singers across South Wales.
He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio and was a member of the International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera.
July 2025
