Winner of an Exceptional Prize at Tenor Viñas 2025, Anglo-Irish baritone Dan D’Souza made his debut at English National Opera as Belcore The Elixir of Love in Autumn 2024 and is now a Harewood Artist, supported by the inaugural Nicholas Folwell Scholarship. During the 2025 / 2026 season, he will sing Sid Albert Herring and cover Joseph de Rocher Dead Man Walking.

Previous engagements have included Angelotti Tosca for The Grange Festival, Flemish Deputy Don Carlo for Royal Ballet and Opera, Cirillo Fedora and Ibn-Hakia Iolanta for If Opera, Trinculo La Tempesta for Wexford Festival Opera, Father Hansel and Gretel for Lyric Opera Ireland, Apollo Apollo e Dafne with La Nuova Musica for the London Handel Festival, Valdeburgo La Straniera with Chelsea Opera Group, Thoas Ipheginia in Tauris with Blackheath Halls Opera, and both Buff The Impresario and Horatio Hamlet for Buxton International Festival.

A keen performer of new music, Dan has created the roles of Crane Powder Down for Shadwell Opera, Mohammed Nobody/Somebody for Northern Ireland Opera, Beast Beauty and the Seven Beasts for The Opera Story, Himself Liminal at Kings Head Theatre, Hendrik Christian Andersen The Master for Wexford Festival Opera, and Cow Bel and the Dragon for Tête à Tête.

Dan D’Souza appears regularly in concert, notable engagements including Christus St John Passion and Mozart Requiem for Huddersfield Choral Society, Christus St Matthew Passion with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, A Sea Symphony with the Philharmonia at Ely Cathedral, High Priest in Handel Semele on tour with English Baroque Soloists (a performance now available on SDG CD), Haydn Creation with the Britten Sinfonia at Snape Maltings, and Elijah at West Road Concert Hall Cambridge.

Winner of both the Dame Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition and the Royal College of Music Lieder Competition, Dan D’Souza was a laureate for the 2023 Académie Orsay-Royaumont performing in Paris with Dylan Perez. He has performed Winterreise at the St Magnus International Festival with the Ragazze Quartet and A Lovers’ Tiff at Ludlow English Song Weekend.

Dan D’Souza was educated at Tiffin Boys School, the University of Cambridge, the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Opera.