BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

Welsh baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen is the winner of the 2025 Paris Opera Competition and the 2025 Josep Palet Competition.

Highlights of the 2026/ 2027 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 debuts at Edinburgh International Festival, English  National Opera and 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. 

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. Other competition  successes include the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship Prize and the Blue Riband  Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. 

APRIL 2026
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