About Angharad

Praised for a voice of “great lyric beauty” (Gramophone) and described as “a star in the making” (Radio Times), North Walian mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2025-27. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, she was generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Norman Ayrton Award, and the Josephine Baker Trust. Angharad is the winner of both the 2025 LCS Leach Award for Singing and 2022 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize, a 2024 International Handel Singing Competition finalist, and a semi-finalist in the inaugural 2026 SWAP’ra Rebecca Clarke Song Competition.

This autumn, Angharad will cover Cherubino at Glyndebourne and perform Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Angharad’s opera roles include Meg Page (Falstaff — Malta National Opera), the title role in Handel’s Ariodante(Royal Academy Opera), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro — Royal Academy Opera), Florence Pike (Albert Herring — Royal Academy Opera), 2nd Bridesmaid (Le nozze di Figaro — Royal Ballet & Opera), Quince/Fairy (The Fairy Queen — Longborough Festival Opera), and Dido (Dido & Aeneas — Hurn Court Opera). Her understudy roles include Zweite Knappe (Parsifal), Praskowia (The Merry Widow) and Zena (Káťa Kabanová) at Glyndebourne, and Juno (Semele) at Opéra de Lille.

Angharad’s concert highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists; Handel’s Solomon with John Butt and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Stephen Layton and the Britten Sinfonia, recorded live for BBC Radio 3 at Saffron Hall; Rossini’s Ermione with Jakob Lehmann and Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, and Bach’s St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe. As a soloist, she has appeared in concert halls such as KKL Lucerne, Haus für Mozart in Salzburg, Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Kursaal in San Sebastián, and Philharmonie de Paris.

In recital, Angharad regularly collaborates with Sholto Kynoch at the Oxford International Song Festival, and has performed at Leeds Song, International Lied Festival Zeist, Handel Hendrix House, and Wigmore Hall.


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