Dafydd Jones

Welsh Tenor, Dafydd Jones, made his international debut in 2022/23 season as Clotarco in Haydn’s Armida for the Bregenzer Festspiele. Busy making a name for himself on the operatic stage, he also recently made his debut in the Title Role of Albert Herring for Opera North. Other operatic roles include Earl Tolloller (cover) in Iolanthe for English National Opera, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (OPRA Cymru) and Pastore in L’Orfeo (Garsington Opera). Recently, Dafydd won the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition at the Wigmore Hall and was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod on the 2019 Atelier Lyrique at the Verbier Festival. He was member of the 2023 Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange programme where he worked with Dame Felicity Lott and François Le Roux. Dafydd’s just completed his first year at the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio where he studies with Nicky Spence and Caroline Dowdle.