Sion Goronwy
Bass
Welsh Bass Sion Goronwy graduated with a degree in History form the University of Wales, before continuing his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the International Opera School at the Royal College of Music.
Sion Goronwy | Swallow (Act 1, Opening Scene) | Peter Grimes
Sion Goronwy | Mayor | Jenufa
Sion Goronwy | Bonze | Madama Butterfly
Sion Goronwy | O Isis und Osiris | Die Zauberflöte
Goronwy’s career highlights have taken him to numerous companies internationally performing a broad range of roles and repertoire, 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); Zio Bonzo Madama Butterfly, Mayor Jenufa and 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 Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro, Don Magnifico La Cenerentola, Sacristan Tosca, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Truffaldino Ariadne auf Naxos, Sparafucile Rigoletto, Vodnik Rusalka, and Tiresias Oedipus Rex.
Concert engagements have seen him feature as guest soloist with orchestras including London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra National de Lyon, Kristiansand Symfoniorkester and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Muscat with conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski, Donato Renzetti, Robin Ticciati, Jonathan Cohen, Leo McFall, Daniel Cohen, Juraj Valčuha, Tomáš Hanus and Alexander Soddy.
Forthcoming projects include Swallow in a new production of Peter Grimes for Welsh National Opera, and with the Radio Filharmonisch Orket at the Royal Concertgebouw under the baton of Karen Canellakis; The Groundskeeper in the revival of Last Days, and the covers of Varlaam Boris Godunov, and Swallow Peter Grimes for The Royal Opera.