Biography
Angharad Morgan is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff where she was awarded a full scholarship in 2000. She completed her studies at the Wales International Academy of Voice with Dennis O’Neill and is currently taught by Nuccia Focile. During this time Angharad was mentored and tutored by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
She was one of the first recipients of a Career Development Award from the Bryn Terfel Foundation. Other awards include the Valetta Jacobi Award, Lee Freeman Memorial Scholarship, Dennis O’Neill Foundation bursary, Russell Sheppard Memorial Scholarship, Vale Singer of the Year.
Her professional operatic debut was at Wexford Festival Opera singing Second Woman in Delius’ A Village Romeo and Juliet and Peasant Farmer in Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui. In 2013, she joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera as one of 3 Jerwood Young Artists and understudied the role of Alice in Falstaff, created the role of Ione in a Wakening Shadow by Luke Styles for GFO and performed the role of Dew Fairy in Hänsel Und Gretel for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 2014 she understudied the role of Arminda in the Festival’s new production of La Finta Giardiniera. Operatic roles performed include Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Miss Wordsworth in Britten’s Albert Herring, Sister Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites, First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hänsel Und Gretel, and The Innkeepers Wife in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (all RWCMD) Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Gower Chorale), Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera School of Wales), Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust and Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme (Swansea City Opera) and Alice in Verdi’s Falstaff (Opera Project).
Angharad is a very versatile artist with a wide ranging concert repertoire. She frequently performs the standard sacred works and is a popular soloist in concert with choirs throughout Wales.
In August 2016 Angharad took a place in the prestigious Welsh National Opera Chorus where she currently sings full time; highlights since joining the company have been covering the roles of Micaela (Carmen) Musetta (La Boheme) Cousin (Madama Butterfly) Emma (Khovanshchina) and playingthe roles of Ida in Die Fledermaus and Marianne in Der Rosenkavalier.
She was one of the first recipients of a Career Development Award from the Bryn Terfel Foundation. Other awards include the Valetta Jacobi Award, Lee Freeman Memorial Scholarship, Dennis O’Neill Foundation bursary, Russell Sheppard Memorial Scholarship, Vale Singer of the Year.
Her professional operatic debut was at Wexford Festival Opera singing Second Woman in Delius’ A Village Romeo and Juliet and Peasant Farmer in Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui. In 2013, she joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera as one of 3 Jerwood Young Artists and understudied the role of Alice in Falstaff, created the role of Ione in a Wakening Shadow by Luke Styles for GFO and performed the role of Dew Fairy in Hänsel Und Gretel for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 2014 she understudied the role of Arminda in the Festival’s new production of La Finta Giardiniera. Operatic roles performed include Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Miss Wordsworth in Britten’s Albert Herring, Sister Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites, First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hänsel Und Gretel, and The Innkeepers Wife in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (all RWCMD) Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Gower Chorale), Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera School of Wales), Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust and Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme (Swansea City Opera) and Alice in Verdi’s Falstaff (Opera Project).
Angharad is a very versatile artist with a wide ranging concert repertoire. She frequently performs the standard sacred works and is a popular soloist in concert with choirs throughout Wales.
In August 2016 Angharad took a place in the prestigious Welsh National Opera Chorus where she currently sings full time; highlights since joining the company have been covering the roles of Micaela (Carmen) Musetta (La Boheme) Cousin (Madama Butterfly) Emma (Khovanshchina) and playingthe roles of Ida in Die Fledermaus and Marianne in Der Rosenkavalier.
