Angharad Watkeys is a singer from Bristol and now based in London. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2014 with a masters degree in Operatic performance. Angharad currently studies with Beatrice Unsworth and Michael Pollock.
Angharad began singing at the age of 7 where she joined the local church choir. A few years later She Joined the Bristol Cathedral Girls Choir, where she was a chorister for 9 years and held the position of Deputy Head Girl. Whilst at the Cathedral Angharad studied with Robert Latham, under whom she gained a guildhall recital diploma.
In 2008 Angharad graduated from the Liverpool Institute of performing arts, with a degree in Theatre and Performance Design. During her time there Angharad had the opportunity to work with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton on a Liverpool Capitol of Culture project. She designed the costumes for a reworking of their musical The Beautiful Game.
Although always interested in the creative arts, Angharad’s passion is music. So since Graduation she has focused on her singing career.
Her operatic roles include the Madrigal Singer in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Vixen in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen both for Bristol Opera Company. Papagena in The Magic Flute, Mozart and Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro, Mozart, both for Tessitoura Opera. Angharad recently played Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti with Tessitoura's 2015 tour.
Her Oratorio work includes Monte Verdi’s Vespers, Bach’s St John Passion, Pergoleis’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Mozart’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem and Tippit’s The Child of Our Time.
Whilst studying at the RWCMD she has played the role of the Governess in a devised piece “Britten’s Women” for Bath Music Festival. Despina in Cosi Fan Tutti, Pappagena in The Magic Flute and she has also covered the role Tina in Jonathan Dove's opera Flight. Opera scenes include, Marzelline in Beethovens Fidelio and Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo.
In 2014 Angharad joined Mid Wales Opera in their 25th anniversary tour of Carmen as part of the chorus, of which there was one per part. She was delighted to work with acclaimed director Jonathan Miller. Angharad was part of their young artist programme, where she covered the role of frasquita, and was able to perform the role on the last night.
Angharad began singing at the age of 7 where she joined the local church choir. A few years later She Joined the Bristol Cathedral Girls Choir, where she was a chorister for 9 years and held the position of Deputy Head Girl. Whilst at the Cathedral Angharad studied with Robert Latham, under whom she gained a guildhall recital diploma.
In 2008 Angharad graduated from the Liverpool Institute of performing arts, with a degree in Theatre and Performance Design. During her time there Angharad had the opportunity to work with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton on a Liverpool Capitol of Culture project. She designed the costumes for a reworking of their musical The Beautiful Game.
Although always interested in the creative arts, Angharad’s passion is music. So since Graduation she has focused on her singing career.
Her operatic roles include the Madrigal Singer in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Vixen in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen both for Bristol Opera Company. Papagena in The Magic Flute, Mozart and Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro, Mozart, both for Tessitoura Opera. Angharad recently played Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti with Tessitoura's 2015 tour.
Her Oratorio work includes Monte Verdi’s Vespers, Bach’s St John Passion, Pergoleis’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Mozart’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem and Tippit’s The Child of Our Time.
Whilst studying at the RWCMD she has played the role of the Governess in a devised piece “Britten’s Women” for Bath Music Festival. Despina in Cosi Fan Tutti, Pappagena in The Magic Flute and she has also covered the role Tina in Jonathan Dove's opera Flight. Opera scenes include, Marzelline in Beethovens Fidelio and Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo.
In 2014 Angharad joined Mid Wales Opera in their 25th anniversary tour of Carmen as part of the chorus, of which there was one per part. She was delighted to work with acclaimed director Jonathan Miller. Angharad was part of their young artist programme, where she covered the role of frasquita, and was able to perform the role on the last night.