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Welsh tenor Rhydian Jenkins is a member of the International Opera Studio at Oper Köln. A former Young Artist at the National Opera Studio, Garsington Opera and Longborough Festival Opera, he graduated with Distinction from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and received the 2019 Bryn Terfel Scholarship and the 2021 MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year Prize.
In the current season engagements include Prologue The Turn of the Screw (Opéra de Lausanne); Jamie and Lord Boxington My Fair Lady, Hörfling Die Nachtigall, Macduff (cover) Macbeth (Oper Köln); and Basilio Le nozze di Figaro (Da Ponte Opera Festival).
Recent engagements include Pang Turandot, Don Curzio Le nozze di Figaro, Lamplighter Manon Lescaut, Maurizio di Mauro Der Wunschpunsch, and Max Max und Moritz (Oper Köln); Sellem The Rakes Progress (Stadttheater Gießen); and Malcolm Macbeth (Longborough Festival Opera).
Other roles include Parpignol La bohéme, Tamino and Monostatos Die Zauberflöte für Jung und Alt, Batman Superheldennormalos, Hund Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Vocal Ensemble La Passion de Simone (Oper Köln); Lysander OperaFirst A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garsington Opera); Peter Quint/Prologue The Turn of the Screw (Cumbria Opera Group); Snout and Fairy 3 The Fairy Queen (Longborough Festival Opera); Vittorio Elena e Gerardo (Random Opera Company); and Sergei Cheryomushki (Welsh National Opera Youth Opera). Roles covered include Arturo Lucia di Lammermoor (Oper Köln); Basilio Le nozze di Figaro; Spoletta Tosca (Northern Ireland Opera); Count Ivrea Un giorno di regno (Garsington Opera); and Macduff Macbeth (Longborough Festival Opera).
In concert, Rhydian has performed at Wigmore Hall in lunchtime recitals curated by Dame Ann Murray and Sholto Kynoch, and made his Bridgewater Hall debut in The Glories of Rome with The Hallé. As an oratorio soloist, his repertoire includes Rossini Petite messe solennelle, Mozart Requiem and Missa solemnis, Handel Messiah, Haydn Nelson Mass and Fauré Requiem. He has performed at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cadogan Hall and St David’s Hall.
Malcolm / Macbeth / Longborough Festival Opera / 2026
“Rhydian Jenkins sings Malcolm with confidence and clarity…”
(Classiquenews)
“There’s solid work, too, from Rhydian Jenkins as Malcolm.”
(The Stage)
Sellem / The Rake‘s Progress / Stadttheater Gießen / 2026
“The biggest round of applause during the performance goes to the magnificent choir and to Rhydian Jenkins as the Auctioneer with his puppet-like acrobatics, as if he were suspended by strings”
(Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung)
“In the role of Sellem, tenor Rhydian Jenkins navigated the fast-paced passages of the boisterous auction with ease and entertained the audience with his humorous performance.”
(Gießener Anzeiger)
Peter Quint / The Turn of the Screw / Cumbria Opera / 2025
“Rhydian Jenkins’ Peter Quint was an immensely powerful and troubling figure, in both his physical presence and his alluring voice.”
(Seen & Heard International)
15 – 22 November 2026
Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Conductor: Alexander Briger
Director: Richard Brunel
