FULL Song Recital: ANGHARAD LYDDON London 2022
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Song Recital: Angharad Lyddon
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: St Margaret's Putney, London, UK
- Recorded: April 3, 2022
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Angharad Lyddon
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Lana Bode, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: St Margaret's Putney
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Programme:
Schubert – Der Blumenbrief
Schubert – Heidenröslein
Schubert – Am Bach im Frühling
Brahms – Von ewige liebe
Schumann – Waldesgespräch (Liederkreis Op.39)
Quilter – Love’s Philosophy Op.3 No.1
Quilter – Now sleeps the crimson petal Op.3 No.2
Vaughan Williams – Silent Noon
John Ireland: Sea Fever
Elgar – Where corals lie
Rebecca Clarke – The Seal Man
Hahn – L’heure exquise
Hahn – Rêverie
Hahn – Quand je fus au pavilion
Fauré – Le Papillon et la fleur
Gounod – viens! les gazons sont verts!
Meirion Williams – Gwynfyd
Meirion Williams – Pan ddaw’r Nos
Meirion Williams – Mai
The Artists
Mezzo-Soprano Angharad Lyddon is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, having studied with Janice Chapman, Audrey Hyland and Glenville Hargreaves on the college’s Advanced Diploma in Opera, B. Mus and M. A. degree courses. She continues to study with Janice Chapman.
Angharad made her professional début for English National Opera in 2015 as Kate in Pirates of Penzance and performed the role again in their 2017 revival. She sang the role of Daughter of Akhnaten in their 2019 revival of Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production, Akhnaten. She has also understudied Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale and Schoolboy, Dresser and Waiter in Lulu for the company.
Other operatic roles include Olga in Eugene Onegin at the 2019 Buxton International Festival and Flosshilde in Das Rheingold for Grimeborn Festival in 2019, Hansel in Iford Arts’ 2018 Education Project, entitled ‘Gingerbread’, based on Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, Suzuki in Madam Butterfly for Salon Opera, Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park for The Grange Festival, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Clonter Opera and Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte at the Åbo Svenska Theater in Finland. She was a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne in 2013 and in 2016, sang Woodpecker in Cunning Little Vixen and covered Hermia. Other covered roles include Polinesso in Ariodante and Alto in Trauernacht, a staging of Bach Cantatas, for Festival d’Aix en Provence.