Welsh soprano Alys Mererid Roberts is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music Opera School. She was a Vice Chancellor’s Scholar for music at Durham University and a member of the inaugural Samling Academy.
Her roles include Chocholka/The Cunning Little Vixen, Ethel/ Pirates of Penzance, Tweedledee/Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Tiny Tim/A Christmas Carol (Opera Holland Park); The Princess/Puss in Boots, Polly Peachum/The Beggar’s Opera (Mid Wales Opera); Yum Yum/ The Mikado and Josephine/H.M.S. Pinafore (Charles Court Opera); Euridice/Orphée aux enfers, Amore & Damigella/L’incoronazione di Poppea (Royal Academy Opera). Alys created the role of Muse in the opera-film Hedd Wyn by Stephen McNeff with Welsh National Opera, which has recently been released on CD by Tŷ Cerdd Records. Most recently, Alys appeared as Flora in a critically acclaimed new film of The Turn of the Screw, released on DVD by Chandos, and as the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel for English Touring Opera.
Her 22/23 season includes a return to Mid Wales Opera as Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, alongside singing the role of Rachel in one of three new monologues as part of the Dunedin Consort’s Out of Her Mouth project, with performances in England and Scotland during the summer.