Lee David Bowen

With his rich and versatile voice, and experience as an actor and performer, Lee David Bowen has brought a wide range of characters and musical styles to life. From portraying Captain James Nolan in John Adams’ Dr Atomic with the English National Opera to Ismaele in Nabucco. Hailing from Swansea, South Wales, originally a successful chef, he entered the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as a baritone. Whilst there he sang Papageno and Figaro under the baton of Anthony Negus. Whilst at RWCMD Lee’s teachers included two great tenors John Mitchinson and Dennis O’Neill CBE, who both felt Lee’s future lay as a tenor in the nineteenth-century German/Italian repertoire. Lee now specialises in the Charakter/Spieltenor repertoire, especially Mime Das Rhinegold and Siegfried, Simpleton Bor