Lee David Bowen

Lee David Bowen was born in Swansea, South Wales, on the same street where, decades earlier, the poet Dylan Thomas had spent his early years. After a successful career as a chef, Lee entered the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as a baritone, graduating in 1999. Whilst there, he sang Mozart’s Papageno and Figaro under the baton of Anthony Negus, also preparing the Figaro in a masterclass with Carlo Rizzi. Whilst at RWCMD, Lee’s teachers included two great tenors, John Mitchinson and Dennis O’Neill CBE, both of whom felt his future lay as a tenor in the nineteenth-century German and Italian repertoire. Lee went on to forge a performing career of remarkable range : For English National Opera, he sang Captain Nolan in the British premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic and the White Min