Welsh tenor, Dafydd Jones, has just made his international debut as Clotarco in Haydn’s Armida for the Bregenzer Festspiele. Busy making a name for himself on the operatic stage, he also made his role and festival debut as Pastore in John Caird’s production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo for Garsington Opera as an Alvarez Young Artist.

In the 2023/24 season, Dafydd will make his debut in the title role of Albert Herring for Opera North and Earl Torlloller in Iolanthe for ENO (Cover).

 Other operatic roles include Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (OPRA Cymru), Title role in Orpheus in the Underworld (Royal College of Music International Opera Studio) and Joe in La Fanciulla del West (Verbier Festival) – Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Recently, was awarded the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize in the finals of the Kathleen Ferrier Competition with pianist Caroline Dowdle and was also finalist in the Royal Over-seas Singer Section with pianist Emily Hoh. Other recent success saw him win the Brooks-Van der Pump English Song Competition and was runner up in the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition at the Royal College of Music. At the College, Dafydd has also won the Ted Moss and Berther Taylor-Sach award for First Prize in the Lieder Competition and was Runner Up and recipient of the Cuthbert-Smith prize in the College’s Lies Askonas Competition.

In the summer of 2021, Dafydd won the Prix Thierry Mermod at the Verbier Festival as a member of the Academy Atelier Lyrique. He has also gained many accolades in Welsh competitions, to include winning the prestigious Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize – The Blue Riband at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2019.