Gwyn Hughes Jones

Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones made his debut with The Royal Opera in 2005 as Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) and has since returned to sing Cavaradossi (Tosca), Macduff (Macbeth) and Walther von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). His operatic highlights include the title role in Otello (Grange Park Opera), Calaf in Turandot (Paris Opera, English National Opera); Cavaradossi (ENO, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Welsh National Opera); Pinkerton (Metropolitan Opera, ENO); Rodolfo in La bohème (San Francisco Opera, ENO); Ismaele in Nabucco (Metropolitan Opera, SFO, Paris); Manrico in Il trovatore (Metropolitan Opera, WNO); Fenton in Falstaff (Metropolitan Opera); and Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera), Canio (Pagliacci), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Duca (Rigoletto) and the title role in Gounod’s Faust for WNO. Engagements for 2024/25 include Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) for Grand Théâtre de Genève and ABAO Bilbao Opera, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and a return to The Royal Opera as Manrico (Il trovatore).