Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano
Born to Jamaican parents in London, Elizabeth’s singing career began with being awarded a scholarship at the age of sixteeen to study singing with the countertenor Denis Lakey.
She went on to study with Caroline Crawshaw at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was supported as a postgraduate by the Peter Moores Foundation. At the RNCM, Elizabeth sang in college productions of The Pilgrim’s Progress (Vaughan-Williams), Cendrillon (Massenet) and Orleanskaya Dyeva (Tchaikovsky).
Roles include Prima Conversa/Suor Angelica (Broomhill Opera). Excerpt performances include Semele (title role) and Idamante/Idomeneo (RNCM), Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro and Adina/L’elisir d’amore (Handmade Opera), Carmen (title role) and First Lady/The Magic Flute (Intimate Opera Company), Fiorilla/Il Turco in Italia (NOS) and Amelia/Simon Boccanegra and Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serial in a masterclass and public concert with David Syrus.
Concert and oratorio work has included regular recitals in Kent and south-east London performing mainly works by English composers (including A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table), a performance of Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at Lichfield Cathedral, and Elijah at the Salzburg Festival.
Elizabeth currently studies with Lillian Watson and was awarded a scholarship from the Peter Moores Foundation again in July 2008. After completing the ENO Opera Works training programme in March 2009, she joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera as a chorus member in their productions of Rusalka, Falstaff and L’elisir d’amore, and created the role of Ludovina in the premiere of the Festival’s new opera The Yellow Sofa with the Britten Sinfonia. Elizabeth is a trainee at the National Opera Studio, where she is kindly supported by the Peter Moores Foundation and the English National Opera.
In October 2009, Elizabeth won the prestigious Voice of Black Opera Competition, and the Sir Willard White Award. Future engagements include the cover of Donna Elvira at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in summer 2010, and a Rosenblatt recital at St John’s Smith Square, London in autumn 2010.
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