Grange Park Opera

Welsh tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (of which he was recently appointed an Associate) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama He is a former English National Opera Harewood Artist and a former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist.

Highlights of his recent career have included François A Quiet Place for The Royal Ballet and Opera, London; Don José La Tragédie de Carmen for Buxton International Festival; the première of Conor Mitchell’s Bwystfilod Aflan / Unclean Beasts for Music Theatre Wales; Gérald Lakmé for Chelsea Opera Group; Prunier La rondine for Opera North; and Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Holland Park.

International engagements have included Dr Richardson Breaking the Waves for his début at Opéra Comique; Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia for Opéra national de Bordeaux and at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; and Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress on tour with Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Barbara Hannigan.

Regular concert engagements have included his North American debut with Boston Symphony Orchestra singing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; Orbin in Elgar’s Caractacus with the Orchestra of Opera North, Messiah with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall; Mozart’s Requiem with Danish National Symphony Orchestra; A Child of Our Time with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and a Gala Concert with the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra.

His upcoming engagements currently include Prologue / Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for London’s Royal Ballet & Opera; Jack O’Brien Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny for English National Opera; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; Haydn Nelson Mass with Singapore Symphony Orchestra; and Mahler Das klagende Lied with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

His debut song recital Unveiled with Iain Burnside and Craig Ogden (featuring music by Ruth Gipps, Benjamin Britten and Sir Michael Tippett and a Song Cycle of his own composing) was launched at London’s Wigmore Hall and is available on Delphian CD.

Elgan Llŷr Thomas is delighted to return to Grange Park Opera, for whom he has previously sung Cassio Otello and The Steersman Der fliegende Holländer, as well as Gonzalve in the lockdown film of L’heure espagnole.