Angharad Rowlands

Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands is a graduate of Royal Academy Opera where she was generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Norman Ayrton Award and the Josephine Baker Trust. She is a 2024 International Handel Singing Competition Finalist, the winner of the 2022 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize, and an alumna of both the Oxford International Song Festival and Leeds Lieder Young Artist Programmes. She is currently a member of the Glyndebourne Chorus.

Whilst studying at Royal Academy Opera under the tutelage of Raymond Connell and Iain Ledingham, Angharad performed the title role in Handel’s Ariodante, Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Florence Pike (Albert Herring), Agnes/Troll 3 (Freya Waley-Cohen’s WITCH), 2nd Witch (Dido & Aeneas), and cover Mother Goose (The Rake’s Progress). Other roles include 2nd Bridesmaid (Le nozze di Figaro - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), cover Praskowia (The Merry Widow - Glyndebourne Festival Opera), cover Juno (Semele - Opéra de Lille), Quince/Fairy (The Fairy Queen - Longborough Festival Opera), and Dido (Dido & Aeneas - Hurn Court Opera).

Angharad’s concert highlights include Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon at the Salzburg Festival and Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona; Kursaal, San Sebastiàn, and Philharmonie de Paris under Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Handel’s Israel in Egypt at St John’s Smith Square, and Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. In recital, Angharad has performed at the Oxford International Song Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, and Wigmore Hall.

Updated September 2024