Sion Goronwy

Goronwy’s career highlights have seen him perform a broad range of roles and repertoire internationally, highlights include the Bass Roles The Nose (Royal Opera House; Aix-en-Provence Festival; Opéra National de Lyon); Astradamors Le Grand Macabre (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden); Swallow Peter Grimes (Teatro La Fenice); Groundskeeper & Private Investigator Last Days & Rodrigo Gloria von Jaxtberg (Royal Opera); Snug A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Teatro Carlo Felice; Royal Opera House, Muscat; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Teatro Massimo Palermo; Israeli Opera; Opera North; Aldeburgh Festival); Grand Visier & Doctor Al Wasl (Dubai Opera); Quince A Midsummer Night’s Dream(Stadttheater Klagenfurt); Pistola Falstaff, Hans Schwarz Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Antonio Le nozze di Figaro(Glyndebourne Festival Opera & Glyndebourne on Tour); Swallow Peter Grimes, Zio Bonzo Madama Butterfly, Mayor Jenufaand Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Welsh National Opera); Rodrigo Gloria von Jaxtberg (Bregenzer Festspiele); Bass Roles The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus (Den Norske Opera). Subsequent roles include Varlaam Boris Godunov, Titurel Parsifal, Vodnik Rusalka, Sparafucile Rigoletto, Tiresias Oedipus Rex, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro, Don Magnifico La Cenerentola and Sacristan Tosca.

Concert engagements have seen him feature as guest soloist with orchestras including Radio Filharmonisch Orket at the Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestra National de Lyon, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Muscat, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kristiansand Symfoniorkester and the Mahler Players with conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Karina Canellakis, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski, Jakub Hrůša, Donato Renzetti, Robin Ticciati, Jonathan Cohen, Leo McFall, Daniel Cohen, Juraj Valčuha, Tomáš Hanus and Alexander Soddy.