Angharad Morgan

Angharad Morgan is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, where she was awarded a full scholarship in 2000. She completed her studies at the Wales International Academy of Voice with Dennis O’Neill and is currently taught by Nuccia Focile. During this time, Angharad was mentored and tutored by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

She was one of the first recipients of a Career Development Award from the Bryn Terfel Foundation. Other awards include the Valetta Jacobi Award, Lee Freeman Memorial Scholarship, Dennis O’Neill Foundation bursary, Russell Sheppard Memorial Scholarship, and Vale Singer of the Year.

Her professional operatic debut was at Wexford Festival Opera, singing Second Woman in Delius’ A Village Romeo and Juliet and Peasant Farmer in Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui.

In 2013, she joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera as one of three Jerwood Young Artists. During her time there, she understudied the role of Alice in Falstaff, created the role of Ione in A Wakening Shadow by Luke Styles, and performed the role of Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 2014, she understudied the role of Arminda in the Festival’s new production of La finta giardiniera.

Operatic performances include Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Sister Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and the Innkeeper’s Wife in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (all RWCMD); Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Gower Chorale); Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera School of Wales); Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust and Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème (Swansea City Opera); and Alice in Verdi’s Falstaff (Opera Project).

Angharad is a versatile artist with a wide-ranging concert repertoire. She frequently performs standard sacred works and is a popular soloist with choirs throughout Wales.

In August 2016, Angharad joined the prestigious Welsh National Opera Chorus, where she currently sings full-time. Highlights since joining the company include covering the roles of Micaëla (Carmen), Musetta (La bohème), Cousin (Madama Butterfly), Emma (Khovanshchina), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and First Niece (Peter Grimes). She has also performed the roles of Ida in Die Fledermaus, Marianne in Der Rosenkavalier, Berta in The Barber of Seville, and created the role of Bronwen in WNO’s acclaimed production of Blaze of Glory.