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The Welsh soprano, Elen Lloyd Roberts, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from Durham University (2014); and her Master of Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London (2014-2016) under the tutelage of Mary Nelson and Christopher Glynn.
Elen Lloyd Roberts enjoys a varied freelance career as a soloist and ensemble singer and is just as at home on the operatic stage as she is on the concert platform. Her operatic roles include Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Longhope Opera, Berlin Opera Academy), Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Instant Opera, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra), Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (OPRA Cymru, 2019), Marzelline in L.v. Beethoven's Fidelio (OPRA Cymru, 2019), Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (Royal Academy of Music Opera Scenes, 2017), Drusilla in C. Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea (Hampstead Garden Opera, 2017), and La Chauve-Souris in M. Ravel's L’enfant et les sortilèges (Samling Academy Opera, 2015). In 2022, she premiered the role of Y Ffŵl (The Jester) in Mared Emlyn’s new Welsh opera for children, Cyfrinach y Brenin (‘The King’s Secret’), with OPRA Cymru. As a chorus member, she has joined Mid Wales Opera for tours of La Bohème and for their five-star production of Verdi’s Macbeth, in which she also sang the role of a Witch (Spring of 2024), and West Green House Opera for Le nozze di Figaro.
In 2023, Elen Lloyd Roberts joined the newly-formed Utopia Choir under the baton of Teodor Currentzis to perform W.A. Mozart's Mass in C Minor and Peter Sellars’ production of Purcell’s The Indian Queen at the Salzburger Festspiele. She joined Utopia again in 2025, this time for Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux at the Opera Garnier, Opéra national de Paris and the Salzburger Festspiele, again under Currentzis' and Sellar's direction. Elen looks forward to joining Utopia again at the 2026 Salzburger Festspiele for Georges Bizet's Carmen and concerts of Johannes Brahms’ Requiem and choral works by György Kurtág and Arvo Pärt.
Elen Lloyd Roberts has a particular passion for singing music of the Baroque period. She was delighted to have been selected as the soprano soloist for the Salvat Beca Bach grant in Barcelona in 2025. As part of the scholarship, she sang with Bach Collegium Barcelona and the Bachcelona Consort in concerts at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, L’Auditori Barcelona, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Espurnes Barroques Festival, Festival de Música Ántigua Sevilla, Montserrat Abbey and Sastamala Gregoriana Festival, Finland and worked with conductors such as Laurence Cummings and Lluís Vilamajó.
Last summer, Elen Lloyd Roberts sang at the Festival du Périgord Noir, where she sang the role of Estate (Summer) in Alessandro Scarlatti's rarely performed serenata La Gloria di Primavera. This was as part of the Académie Baroque Internationale under the direction of Iñaki Encina Oyón. Back in the UK, she regularly joins Cambridge-based ensemble Eboracum Baroque, with whom she has sung as a soloist and ensemble member in George Frideric Handel's Messiah and Dixit Dominus and Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, as well as in numerous Baroque Classics concerts. In their concert performances of Baroque operas, she has sung the title role in G.F. Handel's Semele and Galatea in Acis and Galatea, and the roles of Cupid and Venus in Purcell’s King Arthur. She features as a soloist and ensemble member on their 2020 CD of G.F. Handel's Messiah.
Elen Lloyd Roberts is an experienced choral singer and has sung with Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon), Chamber Choir of London, London Choral Sinfonia and Scherzo Ensemble, and is a member of the Philharmonia Chorus’ Professional Scheme, whom she recently joined to sing the soprano solo in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. While at the Royal Academy of Music, she was a member of the Academy Chamber Choir, and performed as a soloist and ensemble member in the popular RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series.
In demand as an oratorio soloist, recent highlights include several cantatas by J.S. Bach as well as his Johannes-Passion BWV 245, Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 and Mass in B minor BWV 232, W.A. Mozart's Mass in C minor, G.F. Handel's Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne, Purcell’s Come ye Sons of Art, Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Camille Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Edward Elgar's rarely performed The Apostles. She had the pleasure of recently singing in the premiere of 20th century Welsh composer Caradog Roberts’ newly discovered work, The Resurrection of Christ, at the North Wales International Music Festival. She currently lives in London, England. |
