Born November 9, 1965 in Pant Glas, Caernarfonshire, Wales as Bryn Terfel Jones, he is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was born as a child of a farmer and displayed a talent for music from a very young age. He entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1984 and graduated five years later, winning a number of singing awards along the way. He debuted in 1990 at the Welsh National Opera as as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and a year later he debuted at the English National Opera as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro. 1992 marked his concert debut when he sung Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Ravinia Festival. He went on to sing at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Santa Fe Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, and many other stages. By the mid-1990s, he expanded his repertoire to include more serious operatic works, focusing more on Wagner and Puccini. Taking a break from the opera, in 2007 he appeared in a concert version of Sweeney Todd; he also recorded several albums of popular music. In 2014 he reprised the role of Sweeney Todd in Live from Lincoln Center: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - In Concert with the New York Philharmonic (2014). He continues to sing opera on various stages and regularly releases albums. He was married to Lesley Jones from 1987 to 2013, they have three sons. Since 2019 he's been married to harpist Hannah Stone, they have a daughter.