Most recent and future engagements of Owen Willetts include MALACHIA in the world premiere of
Francesco Filidei’s Il nome della rosa and TRINCULO The Tempest Teatro alla Scala di Milano,
OTTONE L’incoronazione di Poppea Theater Basel, VITALIANO in Giovanni Legrenzi’s Giustino
Pinchgut Opera Australia, CASTLE CROW in Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen Bayerische
Staatsoper München and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, HAMOR Jephtha (cover) Royal Opera
House Covent Garden and Messiah Wiener Konzerthaus.
Important past engagements include Orlando (title role) Halle Händelfestspiele and Staatstheater
Darmstadt, HELICON Caligula and OBERON A Midsummer Night’s Dream Staatsoper Hannover,
OTTONE L’Incoronazione di Poppea Pinchgut Opera, Theater Aachen, TULLIO Arminio
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Theater an der Wien and Händel Festspiele Göttingen,
HAMOR Jeptha Landestheater für Vorarlberg, Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Opernhaus Halle, NARCISO Agrippina Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Göttingen and Brisbane
Baroque, Handel’s Giulio Cesare (title) Finnish National Opera, and ORFEO Orfeo ed Euridice and
ARSACE in Handel’s Partenope Boston Baroque. He sang FARINELLI Farinelli and the King Duke
of York Theatre, Westend and was a guest of Birmingham Opera Company, Oper Bonn, Theater
Heilbronn, Buxton Festival, Nationale Reisopera, Opera Queensland, and Virginia Opera.
He performed concerts with Les Musicians de Louvre, Telemann Chamber Orchestra,
Vancouver Early Music Festival, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Dunedin Consort, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Lautten
Compagney Berlin. He has worked with Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Emmanuelle Haim,
Marc Minkowsi, Martin Pearlman, Howard Arman and Raphael Pichon.
Owen was a choral scholar at Lichfield Cathedral and studied at the Royal Academy of Music.