Welsh soprano Alys Mererid Roberts graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Mary Nelson and Ingrid Surgenor, after a first degree at Durham University. Her studies were kindly supported by the Bryn Terfel Foundation, the Michael and Sally Payton Scholarship, the Maple Harper Charitable Trust, the Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity and the Sickle Foundation. She has also been a part of the prestigious Samling Academy.
2025 saw Alys’s return to both the Dunedin Consort for the St Matthew Passion and to English Touring Opera in the soprano role of the Shakespeare-inspired What Dreams May Come!. Last season also saw Alys reprise her roles as Tiny Tim/Fan in Opera Holland Park’s A Christmas Carol, and appear as Susanna in Opera North’s Whistle Stop Figaro.
Her recent and future plans include a reprise of her performance as Tiny Tim for Opera Holland Park’s A Christmas Carol, plus returns to Welsh National Opera for the company’s Marvellous Musical Mythology and, in 2027, as Atlanta/Siren/Medea/Lamb in Jason and the Argonauts.
Her many other roles and appearances include Flora in Opera Glassworks’ critically-acclaimed film of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, recorded at Wilton’s Music Hall, The Princess in Montsalvatge’s El Gato Con Botas (Puss in Boots) and Gretel Hänsel und Gretel for Mid Wales Opera, title role in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel for ETO, Rachel in the Dunedin Consort’s critically-acclaimed staged baroque project Out Of Her Mouth, Yum Yum The Mikado for Charles Court Opera, Polly Peachum The Beggar’s Opera and Shepherd Boy Tosca both for Mid Wales Opera, and Novice Suor Angelica with Welsh National Opera.
Other roles include Tweedle Dee in Will Todd and Maggie Gottlieb’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Annina La Traviata (both for Opera Holland Park), Sandman and Dew Fairy Hänsel und Gretel, and the Mozartian title roles of the Impressario and Bastienne (all for Pop Up Opera).
Whilst a student, Alys also sang Euridice Orphée aux Enfers, Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro, Pannochka May Night, Amore and Damigella L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Una Conversa Suor Angelica. During this time, she also appeared in the premiere of Gair ar Gnawdfor by Pwyll ap Sion for Welsh National Opera, and created the role of Muse in the opera-film Hedd Wyn by Stephen McNeff, also for WNO, as well as singing 2nd Boy The Magic Flute for Mid Wales Opera.