Having already gained wide acclaim for her performances on the operatic stage as well as the concert platform, Welsh singer Fflur Wyn has quickly established herself as one of the country’s foremost sopranos. Having received a First Class Honours Degree from the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Beatrice Unsworth and Clara Taylor, Fflur graduated from the Royal Academy Opera Course with the prestigious DipRAM for outstanding performance and has subsequently been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).
This season she sings Woodbird in Siegfried
at Longborough Festival Opera, and next season returns to Welsh National Opera for 1st Niece in Peter Grimes, and on the concert stage she once again joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for Carmina Burana and performs with two of the BBC orchestras.
Her operatic performances include 1st Niece Peter Grimes (Royal Danish Opera); Jemmy Guillaume Tell, Iphis Jephtha, Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando (Welsh National Opera); Pamina The Magic Flute, Alice Alice in Wonderland, Vivetta L’arlesiana, and the title role in Lakmé (Opera Holland Park); Malinka The Adventures of Mr Broucek (Grange Park Opera); Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro (La Monnaie); Lucia Rape of Lucretia (Potsdamer Winteroper); Esilena Rodrigo (Göttingen International Handel Festival); Governess Turn of the Screw (Mexico City); Celia Lucio Silla (Buxton Opera); Euridice Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Sophie Werther, Marzelline Fidelio, Susanna The Marriage of Figaro, Morgana Alcina, Servilia La Clemenza di Tito, Blue Fairy Pinocchio, Waldvogel Siegfried, Achsah Joshua, Gretel Hänsel und Gretel, Flora Turn of the Screw, Clerida Croesus, Giannetta L’elisir d’amore, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Fire/Nightingale/Princess L’enfant et les Sortileges and Trio Soprano Trouble in Tahiti (Opera North); Floriana in Leoncavallo’s Zazà (Opera Rara); Mimi in Offenbach’s Vert Vert (Garsington Opera); Nedda Pagliacci with the Cambridge Philharmonic; Michal Saul with the BBC Singers; and Celidora L’oca del Cairo with the London Mozart Players.
She is in demand as a singer of contemporary music and has created many roles including Blonde Woman in Oscar Bianchi’s Thanks to my Eyes (Aix en Provence Festival, La Monnaie, Paris, Lisbon); Girl How the Whale Became by Julian Philips (Royal Opera House); Daughter in Elena Langer’s The Lion's Face (The Opera Group, ROH); Adele Jane Eyre by Michael Berkeley (Music Theatre Wales); the title role in Will Todd’s opera Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for Opera Holland Park and also Welsh National Opera; and La Plus Jeune Fille in Philippe Boesmans’ new opera Au Monde at La Monnaie.
Her most notable concert performances include the title role in Handel Theodora (RIAS Kammerchor); Bach Christmas Oratorio (Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra/David Hill); Handel Jephtha (Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss); Haydn Harmoniemesse, Mozart Mass in C Minor, Handel Messiah and Bach B Minor Mass (Royal Northern Sinfonia/Thomas Zehetmair, Orquestra Simfonica de Balears & Al Bustan International Music Festival); Bach St John Passion (London Handel Festival, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Academy of Ancient Music); Bach St Matthew Passion (Dunedin Consort); Haydn Creation (The Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh); Handel Messiah and Ode for St Cecilia's Day (The English Concert/Harry Bicket); Orff Carmina Burana (City of Birmingham Symphony and Royal Scottish National Orchestras); Mozart Exsultate Jubilate (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The European Union Chamber Orchestra); Poulenc Gloria (London Philharmonic Orchestra/David Parry); Bach Coffee Cantata (Early Opera Group/Christian Curnyn); Acis and Galatea (La Nuova Musica/David Bates); Britten Les Illuminations (Northern Chamber Orchestra). Fflur made her Proms debut in Mozart Thamos with John Lubbock and the Orchestra of St John's.
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Wagner Siegfried (Woodbird)
Longborough Festival Opera (June 2024)
Fflur Wyn as the Woodbird, personifies an agitated bird with her fluttering eyelashes, quick movements and sweet voice.
Inge Kjemtrup, The Stage*****
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice)
Opera North (November 2022)
Fflur Wyn (Euridice) shines in the confrontation with Orfeo – “Why won’t you look at me? Don’t you love me?"
Ron Simpson, The Reviews Hub
Soprano Fflur Wyn sang creditably as Euridice, a role with rather limited opportunities to shine. In the aria ‘Che fiero momento’ Euridice conveys her sorrow at Orfeo’s possible unfaithfulness and Wyn demonstrated her attributes of warm tone and agreeable levels of sincerity and expression.
Michael Cookson, Seen and Heard International
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice), Chelsea Opera Group
Cadogan Hall (October 2022)
Fflur Wyn was a characterful Euridice, her full lyric soprano shining and glossy. […] she vividly conveyed Euridice’s passion, scorn, and sorrow.
Claire Seymour, Opera Magazine
Handel Theodora (Title role), Northern Aldborough Festival
(June 2022)
Fflur Wyn shares with her colleagues a notable record of Handelian experience, and her Theodora was strongly characterized as well as being beautifully sung. Their final farewell melted sight.
Melanie Eskenazi, MusicOMH*****
Janáček The Excursions of Mr. Brouček (Malinka/Etherea/Kunka)
Grange Park Opera (June 2022)
Brouček is surrounded by Janáček’s well-observed villagers, the painter Mazal (Mark Le Brocq), the bartender Würfl (Andrew Shore), and the Sacristan (Clive Bayley) with his daughter Málinka (Fflur Wyn)… The vocal writing is extremely demanding, not always quite logical, but brilliantly sustained by all.
Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph****
Fflur Wyn sings with accuracy and a thrilling shine in her three well-differentiated soprano roles.
Claire Seymour, The Stage****
Fflur Wyn convinced in both roles, as she did in her more serious impersonations in the second half.
Melanie Eskenazi, MusicOMH****
Bach St John Passion, The Academy of Ancient Music
The Barbican (April 2022)
The soprano Fflur Wyn bubbled with joy in her solo
Geoff Brown, The Times****
Mozart Cosi fan Tutte (Despina), Saffron Opera Group
Saffron Hall (February 2022)
As Despina, Fflur Wyn showed off her effortless talent for suggesting mischief simply by standing still and letting an arched eyebrow or minimalist hand gesture take the strain. Her soprano is now quite substantial, but agile and word-friendly, and she radiates vitality.
Alexandra Coghlan, Opera Magazine
Handel Alcina (Morgana), Opera North
(February 2022)
Fflur Wyn is charming as Alcina’s coquettish sister, Morgana, her showstopper Tornami a vagheggiar as easy as laughter
Alexandra Coghlan, The Telegraph
It was left to Fflur Wyn’s Morgana to bring a bit more life to the proceedings, and not just in her showpiece act one aria (which some Alcinas steal for themselves). She and Nick Pritchard’s Oronte provided the most touching performances of the evening.
Martin Kettle, The Guardian
As an unusually serious Morgana, Fflur Wyn is sympathetic as she spars with Nick Pritchard’s effectively befuddled Oronte.”
Neil Fisher, The Times
Fflur Wyn made a fiery Morgana, Alcina’s sister, and tore into her big aria ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ with relish.
Martin Dreyer, Opera Magazine
(…) company favourite Fflur Wyn (Morgana) has never sounded so intensely dramatic
Ron Simpson, The Reviews Hub
Fflur Wyn, another company favourite, was a feisty and sympathetic Morgana, making the most of her showpiece aria, ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’.
Melanie Eskenazi, Music OMH
Fflur Wyn shone as Morgana, with a thrilling take on her aria Tornami a vagheggiar.
Gavin Engelbrecht, The Northern Echo
CD: Handel The Choice of Hercules (Pleasure), Gottingen Handel Festival
ACC26415 (September 2021)
Fflur Wyn, bright and youthful of tone, sings these with panache.
Richard Wigmore, Gramophone
Todd Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Title role)
Welsh National Opera (June 2021)
Fflur Wyn, who first created the role of Alice for OHP, is again the out-and-out star. A gifted actor, her warmly lyrical soprano carries effortlessly.
Rian Evans, The Guardian
The Welsh National Opera makes a triumphant return to the stage with a bravura performance of the children’s story which has Fflur Wyn as a beguiling Alice
Morning Star Online*****
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