Finalist, Dunraven Welsh Young Singer of the Year (2018)

Finalist, W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship, National Eisteddfod of Wales (2018)

Highly commended, Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize and Marjorie Thomas Award, Royal Academy of Music (2018)

1st Prize, Classical Solo category, National Urdd Eisteddfod (2017)

Finalist, MOCSA Young Welsh Singer of the Year (2017)

Finalist, under 25 years old Soprano Solo category, National Eisteddfod of Wales (2017)

Semi-finalist, Bach Singers' Prize, London Bach Society (2017)

Finalist, W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship, National Eisteddfod of Wales (2016)

"Elen Lloyd Roberts' Susanna... {was} particularly adept at merging technical mastery with truth in storytelling" (Le nozze di Figaro, Berlin Opera Academy) The Prickle (2019)

"Elen Lloyd Roberts was a sassy Marzelline... confident and clear, with a nice bloom to the voice, soaring comfortably at the top of the Act 1 quartet" (Fidelio, OPRA Cymru) Rian Evans, Opera Magazine (2019)

"Soprano Elen Lloyd Roberts presented a programme full of contrast. She demonstrated agility, control and musical intelligence in this short programme. I was charmed by her singing" (Dunraven Young Welsh Singer of the Year competition final) Cath Barton, Wales Arts Review (2018)

"Elen Lloyd Roberts sang with vivid character in the role of Drusilla, and her subtle, nuanced acting constantly drew my eyes back to her when she was on stage" (L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Hampstead Garden Opera) Early Music Today (2017)

Welsh soprano Elen Lloyd Roberts studied for a music degree at Durham University before going on to complete an MA in Vocal Performance at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Mary Nelson and Christopher Glynn.

Her operatic roles include Susanna Le nozze di Figaro (Longhope Opera, Berlin Opera Academy), Despina Così fan tutte (Instant Opera, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra), Zerlina Don Giovanni (OPRA Cymru), Marzelline Fidelio (OPRA Cymru), Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (Royal Academy of Music Opera Scenes), Drusilla L’incoronazione di Poppea (Hampstead Garden Opera), and La Chauve-Souris L’enfant et les sortilèges (Samling Academy Opera). In 2022, she premiered the role of the Fool in Mared Emlyn’s new Welsh opera for children, Cyfrinach y Brenin (The King’s Secret), with OPRA Cymru.

As a chorus member, she sang with Mid Wales Opera for their production of La Bohème and West Green House Opera for their production of Le nozze di Figaro. In 2023, she joined the newly-formed Utopia Choir under the baton of Teodor Currentzis to perform Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Peter Sellars’ production of Purcell’s The Indian Queen at the Salzburger Festspiele. Most recently, she spent the spring touring Verdi’s Macbeth with Mid Wales Opera, as a Witch and chorus member in their five-star production.

Elen has a particular passion for singing music of the Baroque period and regularly joins Cambridge-based ensemble Eboracum Baroque, with whom she has sung as a soloist and ensemble member in Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, and Vivaldi’s Gloria. In their concert performances of Baroque operas, she has sung the title role in Handel’s Semele and Galatea Acis and Galatea, and the roles of Cupid and Venus in Purcell’s King Arthur. She features as a soloist and ensemble member on their 2020 CD of Handel’s Messiah.

She is an experienced choral singer and is a member of the Philharmonia Chorus Professional Scheme, with whom she has sung at venues including Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge and the Orchestre National de Lille. She has sung with Chamber Choir of London, London Choral Sinfonia and Scherzo Ensemble, and was a member of the Durham University Chamber Choir. While at the Royal Academy of Music, she was a member of the Academy Chamber Choir, and performed as a soloist and ensemble member in their popular RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series.

In demand as an oratorio soloist, recent highlights include Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B minor, Handel’s Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, and Elgar’s The Apostles.

Elen was a finalist in the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship Prize at the 2016 and 2018 National Eisteddfod of Wales and has been a finalist in the MOCSA and Dunraven ‘Young Welsh Singer of the Year’ competitions. In 2017, she was a semi-finalist in the London Bach Society’s Bach Singers' Prize, and in 2018, she was Highly Commended in the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize and Marjorie Thomas Award at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2018 she made her Wigmore Hall recital debut as part of the Open Academy Music for the Moment series. While at Durham University, she was a participant of the prestigious Samling Academy, with whom she performed in concerts, operas and masterclasses across the northeast of England.

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