This season, Welsh soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts returns to Scottish Opera to sing Mimi in La bohème in two Access Performances. She was a semi-finalist in the 2025 Josep Palet Competition.
Recent highlights include covering First Lady in The Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera and her role debut as Magda in La rondine with If Opera. She subsequently covered this role for Opera North. She joined Sir Bryn Terfel as a guest soloist for his Songs and Arias autumn tour of the UK. As an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera, her roles included The Milliner in Der Rosenkavalier and cover Melissa in Amadigi. She was the 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 adaptation 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.
Other highlights include her role debut as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Nevill Holt Opera, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni for Opera Cymru and in concert with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra. She also covered Noémie in Cendrillon for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Her television appearances include performances on Noson Lawen, Heno, and Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol for S4C.
She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. Her prizes and awards include the 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. While 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 a recipient of the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award and Dame Eva Turner Award.
July 2025
