Originally from north west Wales, Elen Lloyd Roberts is now based in London and works as a freelance soprano.

She studied for a degree in Music 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 has joined Mid Wales Opera for tours of La Bohème and Verdi’s Macbeth, in which she also sang the role of a Witch, and West Green House Opera for 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. She joined Utopia again in 2025, this time for Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux at the Opera Garnier, Opéra national de Paris and the Salzburger Festspiele, again under Currentzis’ and Sellar’s direction. Elen looks forward to joining Utopia again at the 2026 Salzburger Festspiele for Bizet’s Carmen and concerts of Brahms’ Requiem and choral works by György Kurtág and Arvo Pärt.

Elen has a particular passion for singing music of the Baroque period. She was delighted to have been selected as the soprano soloist for the Salvat Beca Bach grant in Barcelona in 2025. As part of the scholarship, she sang with Bach Collegium Barcelona and the Bachcelona Consort in concerts at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, L’Auditori Barcelona, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Espurnes Barroques Festival, Festival de Música Ántigua Sevilla, Montserrat Abbey and Sastamala Gregoriana Festival, Finland and worked with conductors such as Laurence Cummings and Lluís Vilamajó.

Last summer, she sang at the Festival du Périgord Noir, where she sang the role of Estate (Summer) in Alessandro Scarlatti’s rarely performed serenata La Gloria di Primavera. This was as part of the Académie Baroque Internationale under the direction of Iñaki Encina Oyón.

Back in the UK, she 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, as well as in numerous Baroque Classics concerts. In their concert performances of Baroque operas, she has sung the title role in Handel’s Semele and Galatea in 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.

Elen is an experienced choral singer and has sung with Ensemble Pygmalion, Chamber Choir of London, London Choral Sinfonia and Scherzo Ensemble, and is a member of the Philharmonia Chorus Professional Scheme, whom she recently joined to sing the soprano solo in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. 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 the 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, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Handel’s Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne, Purcell’s Come ye Sons of Art, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Elgar’s rarely performed The Apostles. She had the pleasure of recently singing in the premiere of 20th century Welsh composer Caradog Roberts’ newly discovered work, The Resurrection of Christ, at the North Wales International Music Festival.

Please contact Elen directly for an up to date biography.