Meinir Wyn Roberts

Welsh Soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester with a First Class B.Mus (Hons) Degree. She subsequently completed her M.A Degree at the Royal Academy of Music, London and graduated from their Opera Course, where she was taught by Lillian Watson and Jonathan Papp.

During her studies, Meinir was kindly funded by the Ryan Davies Memorial Fund; The Seary Trust; The Hartsheath Charitable Trust; The Kathleen Trust; The Richard Stapley Trust; The Elizabeth Evans Trust; Lucille Graham Prize; Maida Jones Award; The Mills- Williams Award and The Arts Council of Wales.

This season, Meinir covered the role of First Lady in The Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera. Last summer, she made her role debut as Magda in Puccini's La Rondine with the newly launched If Opera (Formerly Iford Arts) and joined Sir Bryn Terfel in the autumn as a guest soloist for his 'Songs and Arias' tour of the UK .Other engagements include The Milliner in Der Rosenkavalier and cover Melissa in Handel's Amadigi for Garsington Opera and cover Musetta for Mid Wales Opera. She was also soprano soloist in Mid Wales Opera's Sounds of Summer - Garden Concert and sang the role of Jini on the soundtrack of a new Operatic Welsh Film of the novel Un Nos Ola Leuad for OPRA Cymru with the orchestra of Welsh National Opera. She was also the soprano soloist in Scottish Opera's autumn Opera Highlights Tour.

In 2019, Meinir made her role debut as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Nevill Holt Opera. She also performed the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni for Opra Cymru and also with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra in a concert performance. Meinir joined the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 2018 for their productions of Saul, Vanessa and Giulio Cesare and the Glyndebourne Touring Chorus for 2018/19, covering Noémie in Cendrillon for the company.

Roles as a member of Royal Academy Opera included Title Role in Alcina, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Minerve in Orphee aux enfers, Tina in Flight and Polly Peachum in Die Dreigroschenoper. She has also sung the roles of Agilea in Teseo with La Nuova Musica at the London Handel Festival, Micaëla in Carmen with Opra Cymru and First Young Tree and chorus in British Youth Opera’s production of Paul Bunyan. Other operatic performances include Colette in The Drunkard Reformed and Fortuna in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with the Royal Northern College of Music. In opera scenes, she has performed Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Nannetta in Falstaff, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus.

In the 2017/18 Season, Meinir performed in recital at the Wigmore Hall as part of the Royal Academy Song Circle Group. She is a  popular soloist with choral societies across the country and highlights include performing at the 2017 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera and in a Gala Dinner at the North American Welsh Festival in Columbus Ohio.

Television broadcasts include performances on ‘Noson Lawen,’ ‘Heno’ and ‘Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol’ for S4C.

Prizes and awards include the 2015 International Voice of the Future Competition at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship, the Osborne Roberts Blue Riband Scholarship and the Violet Mary Lewis Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Whilst at the Royal Northern College of Music, she was a finalist in the prestigious Gold Medal Competition, highly commended in the Frederic Cox Award for Singing and was a recipient of the 2014 Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award and Dame Eva Turner Award.

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