Elin Pritchard
Welsh Soprano Elin Pritchard studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Opera Studio. A Samling Artist, her operatic roles have included Micaëla Carmen (WNO); Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia (British Youth Opera); Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw (Opera Holland Park, ENO and for the Ustinov, Bath), Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor (Buxton Festival); Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (Den Jyske Opera); Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Finnish National Opera); and Donna Elvira, Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress and Violetta La traviata (Scottish Opera). Recent and future engagements include Alice Ford Falstaff and title role Manon Lescaut (The Grange Festival); Musetta La Bohème (Opera Holland Park and ENO); Giorgetta Il tabarro (Opera Holland Park and Mid Wales Opera), Mimì La Bohème (Welsh National Opera and Longborough Festival Opera); Ofglen The Handmaid’s Tale (ENO); Kupava The Snow Maiden, Nedda Pagliacci, Flowermaiden Parsifal, Vixen / The Cunning Little Vixen and Zemfira / Aleko (Opera North) Rusalka (Garsington and at the Edinburgh Festival). Concerts include Haydn St Nicholas Mass (Winchester Cathedral / English Chamber Orchestra); Mahler Symphony No. 4 (Northern Chords Festival); Poulenc Gloria (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra); Verdi Requiem (Royal Free Singers and Waynflete Singers), Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony (Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra); Hathaway – Eight Arias for a Bardic Life (Buxton Festival), and Opera Galas (Clonter Opera and the Samling Foundation).