Lunchtime recital featuring Associate Artists from Welsh National Opera
Fri 23 May 2025 – 13:10 – 13:50
Everyone is welcome to join us for a free concert of music at the cathedral during lunchtime!
We host a variety of fantastic performers from across the country, including organists, instrumental ensembles and chamber choirs. The recital today is featuring Associate Artists from Welsh National Opera.
Soprano Eiry Price (she / her) is from Pencaenewydd, North Wales, and is a Welsh National Opera Associate Artist and alumna of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Trust, the H. R. Taylor Trust, and the Dick Maidment and Peggy Cooper Award.
As part of the 2024/2025 Welsh National Opera season, Eiry will perform Countess Ceprano in a new production by Adele Thomas of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Barbarina and Susanna (cover) in The Marriage of Figaro, and 2nd Niece in Britten’s Peter Grimes. She will also perform Susanna in an abridged version of The Marriage of Figaro. On the concert platform, she performs in the Spring Recital with WNO. Eiry has collaborated with Opera Rara, performing in Offenbach’s La Princesse de
Trébizonde with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Mercadante’s Il proscritto under Carlo Rizzi. A regular on the competition platform, Eiry won the James Pantyfedwen Vocal Award, the Park Jones Scholarship, and the Towyn Roberts Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod.
Soprano Erin Rossington is Associate Artist for 2024/25 at the Welsh National Opera. This summer she sang the role of Micaëla in La Tragedié de Carmen for Buxton International Festival. A regular on the competition platform, she won International Voice of the Future at Llangollen International Eisteddfod and the prestigious Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Prize at the RNCM in 2019, and the Towyn Roberts Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod of Wales 2023. Erin was also selected as a finalist for the Vincerò competiton in Verona in 2023. Her roles include; Maguelonne Viardot’s Cendrillon, Miss Fortune Miss Fortune, Mimí La Bohemé, Fiordiligi Così fan Tutte, and Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito. Erin made her Snape Maltings debut as Ina in TIDE in 2022, a new commission for Aldeburgh Festival and performed Lady Billows in Albert Herring for Clonter Opera. She is one of four daughters and visits her home in Llanfair Talhaiarn, North Wales as often as she can to help her family on their farm.
British bass William Stevens (he/him) grew up in the town of Keynsham and had his first professional singing experience as choral scholar at Bristol Cathedral. He then went on to study singing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with Donald Maxwell. Recent engagements include Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Cardiff Opera, Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Hurn Court Opera, and Cumbria Opera Festival, and the covers of Hagen (Götterdämmerung), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), and Colline (La bohème) for Longborough Festival Opera. Other roles include the title role, Bartolo, and Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Sarastro, and The Speaker (Die Zauberflöte), Leporello, and Masetto (Don Giovanni), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Superintendent Budd (Albert Herring), Olin Blitch (Susannah), Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Sir John Falstaff (At The Boar’s Head), and numerous Gilbert and Sullivan roles. In concert, his repertoire includes major works by Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, and Shostakovich.
The recital will last approximately 40 minutes.
Entry is free and booking is not required.
