Richard Lloyd Owen
was born in Denbigh,
North Wales. 

​He originally studied Fine Art, gaining a BA (Hons). His passion for singing took him to the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music, followed by Post Graduate Studies at the Trinity College of Music, London.

He has sung in various productions whilst a staff singer at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, and as a principal at the Milan Festival of Music with European Chamber Opera. Richard has performed concerts in such venues as Birmingham Symphony Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Festival Hall and throughout Sweden, Germany, plus venues in Colorado USA and Auckland New Zealand.

Richard has an active schedule, singing in over seventy concerts annually, including many of the tenor roles in Oratorio. As a soloist he has performed with Katarina Karneus, Christopher Maltman and the late Peter Glossop.

Opera roles include Rodolfo (La Boheme), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Calaf (Turandot), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Alfredo (La Traviata), Il Duca (Rigoletto), Otello, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Don Jose (Carmen), Samson (Samson et Delilah), Canio (Il Pagliacci), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana) and McDuff (Macbeth).

Richard possesses an authentic Italianate tenor voice with tonal refulgence that lends itself to the romantic and verismo repertoire.
​He is currently working with Phillip Thomas.

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Opera Performances

In an international opera career spanning 20 years, Richard has sung opera across Europe and beyond. His opera roles include Rodolfo La Bohème, Tamino The Magic Flute, Cavaradossi Tosca, Don Jose Carmen, Calaf Turandot, Alfredo La Traviata, Otello Otello, Samson Samson et Delilah, Canio Pagliacci and Turiddu Cavalleria Rusticana.

Richard has performed lead roles for UK touring opera companies including Hatstand Opera, Candlelight Opera, Royal Sutton Opera, Burry Port Opera, Stanley Opera, Commedia Productions, European Chamber Opera, First Act Opera, and Opera Sulis. He has also performed in the chorus at The Royal Opera House and Frankfurt Oper, and in international venues from the Royal Palace Stockholm to Tido Castle Vastaras, and cities from Denver Colorado to Milan.

Richard has also sung in hundreds of major UK concert venues, including Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, St Martin in the Fields, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Saint David’s Hall Cardiff. He has also performed in many major cathedrals including Rochester, Exeter, Arundel, and Birmingham. He was also the first opera singer to perform at a Maori 'Tatai hono Marae', a remembrance service.

Richard Lloyd Owen has a strong resonant tenor voice with a long legato line and ringing top notes which he used to portray the Duke as a man of action."
Review of Candlelight Opera's 'Rigoletto'