Mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones
The Bartered BrideBiography
Rebecca is delighted to be making her debut with Irish National Opera. Born in Mid Wales, she began her career as a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, making her debut in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen, and subsequently joined Welsh National Opera as an Associate Artist having made her debut as Countess Geschwitz in Lulu. She made her BBC Proms debut singing Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and featured on Gareth Malone’s Messiah at Easter with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, broadcast at Easter 2025. Concert highlights include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Messiah for Raymond Gubbay Live, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s Messiah with Royal Choral Society, Messiah with Norwegian Wind Ensemble and Vaughan Williams’s Five Tudor Portraits with Britten Sinfonia. Recordings include Stian Aareskjold’s arrangement of Messiah, Joseph Phibbs’ Juliana and Hugh Wood’s Beginnings, all on Resonus Classics. Recent engagements have included Susie in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place, marking her debut with London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, Dardano in Handel’s Amadigi for English Touring Opera, Mother/Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel for Mid Wales Opera, Dama di Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth for West Green House Opera and both Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold/ Götterdämmerung and Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre for Longborough Festival Opera. Most recently, Rebecca featured in the première performance of Ninfa Cruttwell-Reade’s Scenes from Under Milk Wood at Spitalfields Festival and appeared with The Hebrides Ensemble singing Berio Folksongs and the premiere of Jasper Dommett’s Folds on Folds.
November 2025