Ruairi Bowen

Biography

Tenor Ruairi Bowen makes his National Theatre debut at the State Opera in the roles of Thespide and Mercury in Rameau's Platée.

He graduated from King’s College, Cambridge. He is a finalist in the 2020 International Handel Singing Competition and has worked with leading specialists in Baroque music such as Emmanuelle Haïm, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Stephen Layton.

Between 2023 and 2024 he performed the roles of Damon (Handel: Acis and Galatea) with Opera Holland Park, Uriel (Haydn: Die Schöpfung) with Lithuanian National Opera, First armoured man (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte) with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Earl Tolloller (Sullivan: Iolanthe) with English National Opera. He has also appeared in Bach’s Johannes-Passion with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s Oster-Oratorium with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène with the Royal Orchestral Society, Handel’s Messiah with Dubai Opera and Mozart’s Requiem with the Huddersfield Choral Society.