Angaharad Davies,
soprano
Soprano Angharad Kathy Davies is a freelance musician specialising in opera and classical singing. Angharad is a graduate of RWCMD where she was awarded and generously supported by the Mosawi Foundation, the Mario Lanza Education Trust, the Mansel Thomas Memorial Award and the Worshipful Company of Wales Music Award. Angharad graduated with Distinction from her Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Performance in 2017. Angharad currently studies privately with Amanda Roocroft and Michael Pollock.
Angharad’s upcoming engagements include performing the famous Flower Duet from Delibes’ Lakme with the RAF Massed Voluntary Bands in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, appearing as a soloist in Mid Wales Opera’s Summer Opera Gala in Gregynog Hall and performing the role of Susanna from The Marriage of Figaro with Somerset Opera.
Other recent performance highlights include performing the role of 1st Witch in Mid Wales Opera’s production of Dido and Aeneas and performing in the Chorus of Tosca as part of the Abu Dhabi Festival with Sir Bryn Terfel, Kristine Opolais, Vittorio Grigolo and Sinfonia Cymru conducted by Gareth Jones.
Recently, after successful audition, Angharad secured the role of Genevieve in Louis Mander’s opera The Dowager’s Oyster which will be performed at the Cheltenham Playhouse in September 2020, and whose other cast members include George Logan of Hinge & Bracket.
Angharad regularly appears on the concert platform both, in recitals and oratorio as a soloist but also with her chamber music ensembles; Hiraeth Ensemble and Meraki Ensemble. The Meraki Ensemble are Music in Hospitals and Care Artists.
Operatic Repertoire:
Genevieve
The Dowager’s Oyster
Louis Mander Opera, Cheltenham Playhouse
Susanna
The Marriage of Figaro
Somerset Opera
1st Witch
Dido and Aeneas
Mid Wales Opera
Susanna (Scenes)
Le Nozze di Figaro
Opera’r Ddraig
Zerlina (Scenes)
Don Giovanni
Opera’r Ddraig
Mrs Anna Maurrant (Cover)
Street Scene
RWCMD conducted by Wyn Davies, directed by Martin Constantine
Chorus
Tosca
Abu Dhabi Festival, Emirates Palace
Chorus
SWAP’ra Opera Gala
SWAP’ra, Holland Park
Chorus
La Damnation de Faust
St Endellion Summer Festival
Chorus
Semele
Mid Wales Opera / RWCMD (touring)
Chorus
Le Nozze di Figaro
RWCMD
Concert Repertoire
Soloist
Lakmé Flower Duet
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Soloist
Summer Opera Gala
Mid Wales Opera
Soloist
We Three Tenors Recital
Welsh Hearts, Llandaff Cathedral
Soloist
Brel Art Song Academy Recital
Roquecor, France
Soloist
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
Harry Ensemble, Newbury
Soloist
Haydn’s Little Organ Mass
Harry Ensemble, Newbury
Soloist
Mass of the Martyrs- E.R Harry (premier)
Athenaeum Singers, British Sinfonietta
Soloist
Faure’s Requiem
Athenaeum Singers, British Sinfonietta
Soloist
Faure’s Requiem
Harry Ensemble, Newbury
Hiraeth Ensemble
Recital
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Soloist
Saint Saens Oratorio de Noel Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Reading Festival Chorus
Appearances with North Wales Opera Company: Shepherd Boy, Tosca 2019 (Stiwt Theatre) and Chorus, Tosca 2019 (St George’s Concert Room & Rhyl Pavilion)