Bywgraffiad Artist

Meinir Wyn Roberts

Soprano

Argraffu

Rheolwr Artist: Sioned Jones sioned.jones@harlequin-agency.co.uk

Gwefan: https://www.meinirwynrobertssoprano.com/


Mae’r soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts yn artist poblogaidd mewn cyngherddau ar hyd a lled y wlad ac yn meddu ar bresenoldeb llwyfan cynnes a naturiol.

Graddiodd y soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts o’r Royal Northern College of Music, Manceinion gydag Anrhydedd Dosbarth Cyntaf cyn mynd ymlaen i gwblhau gradd M.A. yn y Royal Academy of Music, Llundain. Erbyn hyn, mae wedi cwblhau’r Cwrs Opera yno, lle cafodd ei dysgu gan Lillian Watson a Jonathan Papp.

Drwy gydol ei hastudiaethau, cafodd Meinir gefnogaeth ariannol hael gan Gronfa Goffa Ryan Davies; 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 a Chyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.

Yn yr haf eleni, bydd Meinir yn gwneud ei début yn y rôl Magda yn La Rondine gan Puccini ar gyfer y cwmni newydd If Opera (Iford Arts gynt). Ymysg ei hymrwymiadau eraill y tymor yma bydd dirprwyo rôl Musetta yn La Boheme ar gyfer Opera Canolbarth Cymru. Y llynedd, perfformiodd Meinir rôl The Milliner yn Der Rosenkavalier tra'n dirprwyo rôl Melissa yn Amadigi gan Handel. Bu hefyd yn unawdydd soprano yng nghyngerdd Opera Canolbarth Cymru - Sounds of Summer - Garden Concert ac hefyd gyda Scottish Opera ar gyfer eu taith Uchafbwyntiau Opera. Canodd Meinir rôl Jini ar drac sain Ffilm Operatig Gymraeg newydd yn seiliedig ar y nofel Un Nos Ola Leuad ar gyfer OPRA Cymru gyda cherddorfa Cwmni Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru.


Yn 2019, gwnaeth Meinir ei début yn rhan Helena yn A Midsummer Night’s Dream gyda Nevill Holt Opera. Bu hefyd yn perfformio rhan Donna Elvira yn Don Giovanni gydag Opra Cymru a hefyd mewn perfformiad cyngerdd gyda Cherddorfa Siambr Covent Garden. Yn 2018, ymunodd Meinir â chorws Glyndebourne Festival Opera ar gyfer eu cynyrchiadau o Saul, Vanessa a Giulio Cesare, a hefyd Glyndebourne Touring Opera ar gyfer eu taith yn yr Hydref, lle bu hefyd yn dirprwyo rhan Noémie yn Cendrillon i’r cwmni.

Ymysg ei rolau fel aelod o Royal Academy Opera mae’r rhan deitl yn Alcina, Donna Elvira yn Don Giovanni, Minerve yn Orphee aux enfers, Tina yn Flight a Polly Peachum yn Die Dreigroschenoper. Mae hefyd wedi perfformio rhannau Agilea yn Teseo gyda’r La Nuova Musica yn y London Handel Festival, Micaëla yn Carmen gyda Opra Cymru a First Young Tree a Chorws yng nghynhyrchiad British Youth Opera o Paul Bunyan. Mae ei pherfformiadau operatig eraill yn cynnwys Colette yn The Drunkard Reformed a Fortuna yn Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria gyda’r Royal Northern College of Music. Mewn golygfeydd opera mae Meinir wedi perfformio rhannau Tatyana yn Eugene Onegin; Donna Anna yn Don Giovanni; Fiordiligi yn Cosi Fan Tutte; Soeur Constance yn Carmelites; Flower Maiden yn Parsifal; Nannetta yn Falstaff; Zerlina yn Don Giovanni; Lucia yn The Rape of Lucretia; Gretel yn Hansel and Gretel a Rosalinde yn Die Fledermaus.

Yn nhymor 2017/18, perfformiodd Meinir mewn datganiad yn Neuadd Wigmore, Llundain fel rhan o’r Royal Academy Song Circle Group. Mae hi’n unawdydd poblogaidd gyda chymdeithasau corawl ar draws y wlad gyda’i huchafbwyntiau yn cynnwys perfformio yng nghyngerdd agoriadol Eisteddfod Gerddorol Ryngwladol Llangollen 2017 gyda Cherddorfa Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru a pherfformio mewn Cinio Gala yng Ngŵyl Gymreig Gogledd America yn Columbus, Ohio.

Mae ei darllediadau teledu yn cynnwys perfformiadau ar ‘Noson Lawen’, ‘Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol’ a ‘Heno’ ar gyfer S4C.

Mae Meinir wedi ennill nifer o wobrau, gan gynnwys Cystadleuaeth Llais y Dyfodol yn Eisteddfod Gerddorol Ryngwladol Llangollen 2015 ac Ysgoloriaeth W. Towyn Roberts, Gwobr Goffa Osborne Roberts – Y Rhuban Glas - ac Ysgoloriaeth Violet Mary Lewis yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru. Tra yn y Royal Northern College of Music, roedd yn rwond derfynol eu cystadleuaeth Medal Aur o fri;  fe’i cymeradwywyd yng Ngwobr Frederic Cox ac fe dderbyniodd Wobr Goffa Elizabeth Harwood 2014 a Gwobr y Fonesig Eva Turner. 


Rydym yn diweddaru'n bywgraffiadau yn gyson, felly cysylltwch â ni am y fersiwn ddiweddaraf, os gwelwch yn dda. 

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
Handel
Teseo
Agilea
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
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
Bizet
Carmen
Micaëla
Britten
Paul Bunyan
First Young Tree
Britten
The Rape of Lucretia
Lucia (scenes)
Britten
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena
Dove
Flight
Tina
Glück
L’ivrogne Corrige
Colette
Handel
Teseo
Agilea
Handel
Amadigi
Melissa (cover)
Handel
Alcina
Alcina
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)
Puccini
La Rondine
Magda
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.

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