“A beautiful, glorious voice” (Seen and Heard International) - Swiss baritone Felix Gygli is the winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2023, the Lied Prize of the Queen Sonja Competition 2024 and the inaugural winner of the Eastbourne International Singing Competition 2024. 

Felix is a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. Next season he will be appearing in several productions at the Zurich Opera House, most notably as Phileas Fogg in the world premiere of Around the World in 80 Days by Jonathan Dove. 

Felix is a Samling Artist and a National Opera Studio Young Artist 2022/23. He received his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

He was a member of the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival 2023, where he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer. In January 2024, he participated in the Carnegie Hall SongStudio under the patronage of Renée Fleming.

Felix is a passionate Lieder singer and regularly performs in recitals in the UK, France, and Switzerland with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski. He made his US debut performing Schubert's Winterreise with pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat at the Boston Text and Tone Festival.

  • "The former has quite exceptional potential and should become […] one of the great baritones of tomorrow: long, brilliant, homogeneous voice, with a beautiful intelligence of the vocal phrase."

    Raymond Duffaut, Les saisons de la voix

  • "Baritone Felix Gygli singing Vaughan William’s ‘Heart’s Haven’ is something I will never forget. Phan described his voice as a ‘beautiful, glorious instrument’ and it is. Gygli is also a remarkably expressive singer."

    Rick Perdian, Seen and Heard International

  • "With his beefy instrument, the Swiss baritone makes a glorious noise (...) the line is beautifully supported, and he was especially engaging in the artful naiveties of Wolf’s Mörike Lieder."

    Clive Paget, The Guardian