Tenor Owen Lucas completed his master’s degree at the Academy and is now in his second year of Royal Academy Opera, studying with Mark Wildman. He is a grateful recipient of the Brackaville Bursary for Vocal Studies from Irish Heritage. Owen’s journey towards a singing career began in 2019 when he took part in the Glyndebourne Academy under the direction of Mary King. In addition to spending several seasons in the chorus at Glyndebourne Festival, he recently covered the role of Lysander in there most recent production of A Midsummers Night Dream. He has sung Gastone de Letorières in La traviata and Chorus in Die Fledermaus and La bohème with Northern Ireland Opera, King Nebuchadnezzar in The Burning Fiery Furnace and Monostatos/Priester/Erster geharnischter Mann in Die Zauberflöte with Royal Academy Opera, and appeared in opera scenes as Rodolfo in La bohème and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Competition successes include winning the Tenor Solo category at the 2021 Dublin Feis, and the Deborah Voigt Opera Prize and Audience Prize at the 2022 Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice. Most recently he won the Patricia Routledge English Song Competition.