Multi-award-winning Welsh Tenor Joshua Owen Mills, described by The Times as a ‘tenor with gleaming legato,’ will be performing at Kings Cross Sounds, one of London's most eclectic music festivals, for the start of his 2023/2024 season. Additionally, he has house debuts lined up with Jyväskylän Ooppera, where he is set to portray Nemorino in "L'elisir D'amore," and he will also reprise the role of Yonas in Saariho's "Adriana Mater" at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.
With a mission to redefine what being a classical musician means in the twenty-first century, Mills actively promotes an open and engaged social media presence, working towards introducing the opera world to a much wider audience. Notably, during the pandemic, he played the role of ‘Pride’ in the world premiere of The Opera Story’s ‘Beauty and the Seven Beasts.’ The performance was a unique blend of pre-recorded elements mixed with a live audience and singers, creating an opera experience that was both innovative and seldom seen before, with Mills's portrayal being described as a 'hoot' (Planet Hugill)
"Accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, Joshua Owen Mills displayed a fine Italianate ring"
Planer Hugill
Named the winner of The London Welsh Singer Of The Year, other notable performances in Mills’s career include Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Staatsoper Hannover & Theater Aachen, a staged production of Britten’s War Requiem at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Staattheater Klagenfurt, Nevill Holt, and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Zimoviy in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich at Staatstheater Klagenfurt.
In 2023, Joshua performed as Yonas in Saariaho’s "Adriana Mater" at Norrlandsoperan. ‘Mills’s assured Tenor’ (Svenska Dagbladet) was broadcast in cinemas across Sweden. He never hesitated to conduct stageside interviews and Instagram takeovers, ensuring audiences at home could follow along effortlessly
“Joshua Owen Mills sings an elegant and upstanding Don Ottavio”
Don Giovanni, Nevill Holt Opera, Arts Scene in Wales,
