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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Bach
Lutheran Mass in G Major BWV 236
Bach
Magnificat in D Major BWV 243
Debussy
Ariettes Oubliees
Dvořák
Stabat Mater Op.58
Handel
TeseoAgilea
Hughes
Gweddi
Lehar
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heis
Mendelssohn
Elijah Op.70
Quilter
7 Elizabethan Songs
Schubert
Ave Maria
Strauss
Die Nacht
Verdi
La Vergine Degli Angeli
Bach
Lutheran Mass in G Major BWV 236
Bach
Magnificat in D Major BWV 243
Debussy
Ariettes Oubliees
Dvořák
Stabat Mater Op.58
Lehar
Meine Lippen sie Kussen so heis
Quilter
7 Elizabethan Songs
Verdi
La Vergine Degli Angeli
Bizet
CarmenMicaëla
Britten
Paul BunyanFirst Young Tree
Britten
The Rape of LucretiaLucia (scenes)
Britten
A Midsummer Night's DreamHelena
Dove
FlightTina
Glück
L’ivrogne Corrige Colette
Handel
TeseoAgilea
Handel
AmadigiMelissa (cover)
Handel
AlcinaAlcina
Humperdink
Hansel and GretelGretel (scenes)
Massenet
CendrillonNoémie (cover)
Monteverdi
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in PatriaFortuna
Mozart
Cosi Fan Tutte Fiordiligi (scenes)
Mozart
Don Giovanni Donna Elvira; Zerlina (scenes)
Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro La Contessa (scenes)
Offenbach
Orphée Aux Enfers Minerve
Poulenc
Les Dialogues des Carmelites Soeur Constance (scenes)
Puccini
La BohemeMusetta (U)
Puccini
La RondineMagda
Strauss
Die FledermausRosalinde (scenes)
Strauss, Richard
Der RosenkavalierThe Milliner
Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin Tatyana (scenes)
Verdi
FalstaffNannetta (scenes)
Verdi
Un Giorno Di RegnoGiulietta (cover)
Wagner
ParsifalFlower Maiden (scenes)
Weill
Die Dreigroschenoper Polly Peachum
Britten
Paul Bunyan
First Young Tree
Britten
The Rape of Lucretia
Lucia (scenes)
Britten
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena
Glück
L’ivrogne Corrige
Colette
Handel
Amadigi
Melissa (cover)
Humperdink
Hansel and Gretel
Gretel (scenes)
Massenet
Cendrillon
Noémie (cover)
Monteverdi
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
Fortuna
Mozart
Cosi Fan Tutte
Fiordiligi (scenes)
Mozart
Don Giovanni
Donna Elvira; Zerlina (scenes)
Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
La Contessa (scenes)
Offenbach
Orphée Aux Enfers
Minerve
Poulenc
Les Dialogues des Carmelites
Soeur Constance (scenes)
Puccini
La Boheme
Musetta (U)
Strauss
Die Fledermaus
Rosalinde (scenes)
Strauss, Richard
Der Rosenkavalier
The Milliner
Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin
Tatyana (scenes)
Verdi
Falstaff
Nannetta (scenes)
Verdi
Un Giorno Di Regno
Giulietta (cover)
Wagner
Parsifal
Flower Maiden (scenes)
Weill
Die Dreigroschenoper
Polly Peachum
Holds out huge promise for future seasons: If Opera’s La Rondine reviewed
Magda in Puccini's La Rondine for 'If Opera' at Belcombe Court
The Spectator
And the cast? Well, Roberts made a touching Magda, with a generous sound that twined itself around Joseph Buckmaster’s tenor in their love duets (he was her toyboy, Ruggero), making the whole ensemble light up.
If Opera delights its audiences with blossoming talent in Belcombe Court’s gardens
Magda in Puccini's La Rondine for 'If Opera' at Belcombe Court
operascene.co.uk
A delightful Meinir Wyn Roberts captures this almost other-worldly aspect of the relationship, balancing idealistic passion with darker introspection. The Welsh soprano gives us some thrilling singing particularly the emotional crescendos
A light touch and some rattling good tunes: Puccini's La rondine from IF Opera at Belcombe Court
Magda in Puccini's La Rondine for 'If Opera' at Belcombe Court
planethugill.com
Meinir Wyn Roberts made a lovely Magda, in Act One she projected enough sense of being strongly grounded to suggest her character being somewhat older than the people around her. Her contribution to the song about Doretta in Act One (begun by Ryan Vaughan Davies' Prunier) was beautifully done, but it was as the opera progressed that Wyn Roberts really let rip and brought out the vibrant passion in Puccini's lovely melodies. Throughout she was poised and in control, just as you felt Magda should be. This was no damaged flower, but a woman with a definite view of her destiny.
La rondine, If Opera review - a bold opening gambit from a company changing the business of opera
Magda in Puccini's La Rondine for 'If Opera' at Belcombe Court
theartsdesk.com
...Wyn Roberts’ heroine comes in and out of focus, achieving glorious intensity in the climaxes.
Opera
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Nevill Holt Opera
MusicOMH
As Helena, Meinir Wyn Roberts reveals an extremely engaging soprano.
Teseo
Agilea in Handel's Teseo at the London Handel Festival, April 2018
Music OMH
Roberts' soprano possessed strength, beauty and edge. Her superb technique ensured that her sound entered a wondrous realm at the top of her register while still maintaining evenness of tone, and was shown to particularly good effect in the exceptionally challenging ‘M’adora l’idol mio’
Teseo
Agilea in Handel's Teseo at the London Handel Festival, April 2018
Planet Hugill
Meinir Wyn Roberts sang with such a vibrantly characterful sense of line, that Agilea was positively transformed. Wyn Roberts was always highly expressive. I particularly loved her second aria, duetting with Leo Duarte's oboe, and her Act Three recitative with Leila Zanette's Medea in Act Three fairly crackled.
Concerts & Recitals
Opera Highlights: A splendid evening of operatic vignettes
Soprano Soloist in Scottish Opera's Opera Highlights Tour
The National
For her part, Wyn Roberts performs an optimistic aria from Charles Gounod's Roneo et Juliette with a delightful lightness of expression. Her vocalisation is cheerful, as the piece requires, but also impressive, particularly at the top of her range.
Opera Highlights, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
Soprano Soloist in Scottish Opera's Opera Highlights Tour
The Herald
...both tenor and soprano were vocally very secure in their solo outings, with Roberts having the more interesting repertoire in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Donizetti's Don Pasquale.
Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle at Wigmore Hall, London, January 2018
Classical Source
A crop of gorgeous voices from the Royal Academy of Music was on display at Wigmore Hall in a programme united by a Venetian theme, a journey through this gothic, timeless city.
Meinir Wyn Roberts opened her account with Fanny Mendelssohn’s ‘Gondellied’; her golden tones mirrored the poetry as strains of music crossed the waters to the sea, and her Rossini duet with Terry, ‘La regatta veneziana’, was wonderfully animated.