Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Lyddon recently made her house debut at Opéra de Monte Carlo as Mary in The Flying Dutchman and returned to Welsh National Opera to reprise the role of Branwen in Blaze of Glory. In the 2026/27 season, she will sing Waltraute in Die Walküre for Opera Forge.
Recent highlights also include her house and role debut as Mary in The Flying Dutchman for Opera Holland Park, Third Lady in The Magic Flute at the Nevill Holt Festival, and Flosshilde in Götterdämmerung at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Roles for The Grange Festival include Irene in Tamerlano and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other roles include Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (both West Green House Opera), and Olga in Eugene Onegin (West Green House Opera and Buxton International Festival).
Concert highlights include Handel’s Messiah 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 Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra alongside Sir Bryn Terfel.
Angharad made her professional debut for English National Opera as Kate in The Pirates of Penzance. Other roles for ENO include Daughter of Akhnaten in Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production of Akhnaten, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale. She is a former Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where highlights included Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen and covering Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2025 she returned to Glyndebourne to cover Marcellina in Mariame Clément’s new production of Le Nozze di Figaro.
Angharad represented Wales in the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was a finalist in the Song Prize. Following the competition, she was invited to give a recital with pianist Llŷr Williams at Wigmore Hall. Angharad is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.
July 2026
Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Lyddon recently made her house debut at Opéra de Monte Carlo as Mary in The Flying Dutchman and returned to Welsh National Opera to reprise the role of Branwen in Blaze of Glory. In the 2026/27 season, she will sing Waltraute in Die Walküre for Opera Forge.
Recent highlights also include her house and role debut as Mary in The Flying Dutchman for Opera Holland Park, Third Lady in The Magic Flute at the Nevill Holt Festival, and Flosshilde in Götterdämmerung at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Roles for The Grange Festival include Irene in Tamerlano and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other roles include Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (both West Green House Opera), and Olga in Eugene Onegin (West Green House Opera and Buxton International Festival).
Concert highlights include Handel’s Messiah 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 Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra alongside Sir Bryn Terfel.
Angharad made her professional debut for English National Opera as Kate in The Pirates of Penzance. Other roles for ENO include Daughter of Akhnaten in Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production of Akhnaten, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale. She is a former Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where highlights included Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen and covering Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2025 she returned to Glyndebourne to cover Marcellina in Mariame Clément’s new production of Le Nozze di Figaro.
Angharad represented Wales in the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was a finalist in the Song Prize. Following the competition, she was invited to give a recital with pianist Llŷr Williams at Wigmore Hall. Angharad is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music.
July 2026
