Angharad Lyddon

Mezzo-Soprano Angharad Lyddon is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, having studied with Janice Chapman, Audrey Hyland and Glenville Hargreaves on the college’s Advanced Diploma in Opera, B. Mus and M. A. degree courses. She continues to study with Janice Chapman.

While at the college, her roles for Royal Academy Opera included Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin, Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon and Polinesso in Ariodante. In opera scenes, she performed the Title Role in Carmen, 1st Maid in Elektra, Nancy in Albert Herring, Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Older Woman in Flight and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro.

Angharad made her professional début for English National Opera in 2015 as Kate in Pirates of Penzance and performed the role again in their 2017 revival. She sang the role of Daughter of Akhnaten in their 2019 revival of Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production, Akhnaten. She has also understudied Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale and Schoolboy, Dresser and Waiter in Lulu for the company.

Other operatic roles include Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Musico in Manon Lescaut and Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park for The Grange Festival,  Olga in Eugene Onegin for West Green House Opera and Buxton International Festival, Flosshilde in Das Rheingold for Grimeborn Festival, Hansel in Iford Arts’ 2018 Education Project, ‘Gingerbread’, based on Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, Suzuki in Madam Butterfly for Salon Opera, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Clonter Opera and Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte at the Åbo Svenska Theater in Finland. She was a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne in 2013 and in 2016, sang Woodpecker in Cunning Little Vixen and covered Hermia. Other covered roles include Polinesso in Ariodante and Alto in Trauernacht, a staging of Bach Cantatas, for Festival d'Aix en Provence.

Angharad is a Samling Artist and among her concert highlights are a BBC Cardiff Singer of the World recital with pianist, Llŷr Williams at the Wigmore Hall, performing as guest artist in ‘An Evening with Sir Bryn Terfel’ and the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, Stravinsky's The Faun and the Shepherdess and Requiem Canticles with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, Bach Cantatas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall.

Other recent concert performances include a recital with pianist Jâms Coleman at the Fishguard and West Wales Music Festival, Rossweisse in London Opera Company’s concert performance of Die Walküre, recitals at St David’s Hall, Cardiff and the Cowbridge Music Festival, the roles of Marta and Pantalis in a concert performance of Boito's Mefistofele for the Chelsea Opera Group at the Southbank Centre, a tour of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Cardiff, St Davids and Berlin, Mahler 2 with the Horsham Symphony Orchestra, a concert celebrating the 250^th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera and BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC NOW’s St David’s Day concert.

Angharad represented Wales in the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was a Finalist in the Song Prize competition.

Recent engagements include Irene in Tamerlano for The Grange Festival, Waltraute for Grimeborn Festival’s Götterdämmerung and Cherubino in West Green House Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro. Up-coming work will see Angharad at the Wigmore Hall for the Samling Artists Showcase and the Royal Albert Hall for Handel’s Messiah.

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Opera

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin

Mefistofele

Mefistofele

Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

The Pirates of Penzance

Gianni Schicchi

Eugene Onegin

Concerts & Recitals

Competitions