Angharad Rowlands - Mezzo Soprano

Welsh mezzo-soprano Angharad Rowlands is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2025–27. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, she was generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Norman Ayrton Award, and the Josephine Baker Trust. Angharad is a laureate of both the Oxford International Song Festival and the Leeds Lieder Young Artist Programmes, a finalist in the 2024 International Handel Singing Competition, and the winner of the 2023 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award Song Prize.

In the 2025/26 season, Angharad completed her second year as a member of the Glyndebourne Chorus, covering roles including Zweite Knappe in Wagner’s Parsifal and Žena in Janáček’s Kat’á Kabanová. Other notable roles include the title role in Handel’s Ariodante, Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Florence Pike (Albert Herring), Agnes/Troll 3 (WITCH), and 2nd Witch (Dido & Aeneas) at Royal Academy Opera; 2nd Bridesmaid (Le nozze di Figaro – Royal Ballet & Opera); cover Juno (Semele – Opéra de Lille); cover Praskowia (The Merry Widow – Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Quince/Fairy (The Fairy Queen – Longborough Festival Opera); Dido (Dido & Aeneas – Hurn Court Opera); and Nancy (Albert Herring – Byre Opera).

Her concert highlights include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with John Eliot Gardiner, St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe, Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon at the Salzburg Festival, Handel’s Israel in Egypt at St John’s Smith Square, and Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

In recital, Angharad regularly performs with Sholto Kynoch at the Oxford International Song Festival and has appeared at the Leeds Lieder Festival, International Lied Festival Zeist, and Wigmore Hall.