- Tannhäuser – Biterolf
- Die Meistersinger – Fritz Kothner
Welsh-Irish bass-baritone Paul Carey Jones has appeared as a principal guest artist for opera companies across the UK and Europe. He was winner of the 2013 Wagner Society Singing Competition, and was recently elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his contribution to the classical music industry.
His operatic work includes appearances for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Gothenburg Opera, Opera Holland Park, and the Icelandic Opera. He has appeared extensively as Wotan in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, most notably for Longborough Festival Opera, where Gramophone magazine recently described him as being “well along the path to being one of the towering Wotans of our time”.
His extensive discography includes three solo song albums, Enaid – Songs of the Soul with Llyr Williams, Songs Now with Ian Ryan, and Song Lied Cân with Katharine Dain and Jocelyn Freeman, the title rôle in Arwel Hughes’ Dewi Sant, as well as the original cast recordings of Hedd Wyn 2117 (Stephen McNeff / Gruff Rhys) and Under Milk Wood (John Metcalf / Dylan Thomas).
A committed advocate of contemporary music, he has given première performances of operas, symphonies, songs and cycles by composers such as Stuart MacRae, John Metcalf, Jonathan Dove, Stephen McNeff, Sadie Harrison, Brian Irvine, Gavin Higgins, Gareth Glyn and Emily Hall.
His critically acclaimed first book Giving It Away – Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales was published in October 2020 and is on sale from online booksellers worldwide.
His future plans include Monterone (Rigoletto) for Welsh National Opera, and the world première recording of Grace Williams’ Missa Cambrensis with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.