Welsh soprano Rhian Lois graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2009 with a First Class Honours Degree. She achieved a distinction for her Master of Performance qualification from the Royal College of Music, where she also won the prestigious Lies Askonas competition. In 2012, Rhian completed her postgraduate studies at the National Opera Studio in London, supported by English National Opera, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Wingate Scholarship and Philip Carne. She is taught by Janis Kelly.
Rhian is one of the first recipients of a career development award from the Bryn Terfel Foundation. Other prizes and awards include the Urdd Gobaith Cymru Bryn Terfel Scholarship, the Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and the Roland Jones prize.
Rhian has appeared in concert with Bryn Terfel at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, and the PJ Hall, Bangor. Other concert highlights include Mozart’s Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall conducted by Simon Halsey and soloist in CBSO’s Stravinsky retrospective ”Igor Fest” She has also had the honour of being invited to sing to HRH Prince Charles at his home in Mid Wales.
In 2011 whilst a student, Rhian made her performance debut with English National Opera as Ivette in Weinberg’s The Passenger. She was subsequently chosen by ENO as one of twelve young singers to be an ENO Harewood Artist and this season will sing the roles of Frasquita in Carmen, Papagena in The Magic Flute and Nerine in Medee for the company.
Roles performed for other companies include Musetta in La Boheme for ‘Opera up Close’ at the Cock Tavern Theatre and Soho Theatre in the West End, Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte for Opera Project and Zerlina in Don Giovanni for Opera della Luna. She has also understudied Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Amore & Melanto in The Return of Ulysses for English National Opera. Rhian will make her debut in the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute for Nevill Holt Opera in 2013.
Bizet
Les pêcheurs de perlesLeila
Bizet
CarmenFrasquita
Bizet
CarmenFrasquita
Charpentier
MedeaNerine
Charpentier
MedeaNerine
Donizetti
Don PasqualeNorina
Monteverdi
The Return of UlyssesAmore
Monteverdi
The Return of UlyssesMelanto
Mozart
IdomeneoIlia
Mozart
Le nozze di FigaroSusanna
Mozart
The Magic FlutePapagena
Mozart
Cosi fan TutteDespina
Mozart
Don GiovanniZerlina
Mozart
The Magic FlutePamina
Mozart
The Magic FlutePamina
Mozart
The Magic FlutePapagena
Puccini
Suor AngelicaNursing Sister
Puccini
La BohemeMusetta
Purcell
DioclesianMaximinian
Purcell
DioclesianShepherdess
Stravinsky
The Rake's ProgressBaba the Turk
Telemann
OrpheusEurydice
Weinberg
The PassengerIvette
Bizet
Les pêcheurs de perles
Leila
Donizetti
Don Pasquale
Norina
Monteverdi
The Return of Ulysses
Amore
Monteverdi
The Return of Ulysses
Melanto
Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro
Susanna
Mozart
The Magic Flute
Papagena
Mozart
Cosi fan Tutte
Despina
Mozart
Don Giovanni
Zerlina
Mozart
The Magic Flute
Pamina
Mozart
The Magic Flute
Pamina
Mozart
The Magic Flute
Papagena
Puccini
Suor Angelica
Nursing Sister
Purcell
Dioclesian
Maximinian
Purcell
Dioclesian
Shepherdess
Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress
Baba the Turk
Weinberg
The Passenger
Ivette
Eurydice in Telemann's Orpheus at the London Handel Festival
Classical Source
Rhian Lois as Eurydice sang with a joyful, innocent simplicity that showed her as very much the opposite of Orasia in personality.
Papagena in The Magic Flute for English National Opera
Opera Britannia
Harewood Artist Rhian Lois was an engaging Papagena with the acting talent to successfully carry off this comedy role.
Papagena in The Magic Flute for English National Opera
The Times
Rhian Lois offers a sweet cameo.
Papagena in The Magic Flute for English National Opera
MusicalCriticism.com
Rhian Lois seemed to be born for the part of Papagena both vocally and physically.
Papagena in The Magic Flute for English National Opera
The Guardian
The delightful tea lady, Papagena
Yvette in The Passenger for English National Opera
The New Statesman
While the ensemble of carefully characterised female prisoners all make their mark, it is Julia Sporsen's Katya and Rhian Lois's fragile Yvette that dominate - tender foils to the steely passion of Giselle Allen's Marta.
Musetta in La Boheme for Opera Up Close
What's On Stage
‘.....and a sharp and fresh Musetta from Rhian Evans’
Concert with Only Men Aloud
Carmarthen Journal
'Guest soloist on the night was the talented Rhian Lois. Her varied repertoire included Y Bwthyn Ar Y Bryn, Dvorak's Song To The Moon and Quel Guardo |Il Cavaliere, from Don Pasquale.
To strike a lighter note, Rhian treated the audience to Art Is Calling For Me by Victor Herbert and Ivor Novello's My Dearest Dear'
Igorfest Finale with the CBSO at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Birmingham Post
. . . the wordless Pastorale, beautifully controlled and shaped by the promising Rhian Lois.
