Sioned Gwen DaviesMezzo-Soprano

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”Good fun and sturdy voice”
The Guardian

”Sioned Gwen Davies plays the cruel siren figure of Maddalena with a disturbing coldness that fuels the hideous chill and horror of the final act”
The Scotsman

”... an exuberant Olga”
The Telegraph

Following her success in the Welsh Singers Competition 2016, Sioned had the honour of representing Wales in the prestigious, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, 2017.
In 2019/20 season her engagements include her debut with English National Opera as Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, 2nd Secretary to Mao in Nixon in China and Tessa in The Gondoliers with Scottish Opera. She will travel to Malta to sing with La Serenissima in January 2020 and will perform with them again in Italy and make her professional debut at The Wigmore Hall at the end of the year.
Other engagements include Olga in Eugene Onegin; Stewardess in Flight, Maddalena in Rigoletto and 3rd Lady in The Magic Flute all for Scottish Opera and Tisbe in La Cenerentola for West Green House Opera.

She made her professional operatic début in 2012 as Margarida in The Yellow Sofa for Glyndebourne Festival Opera‘s Jerwood Project, both in the Festival and on the autumn tour. In 2013 she performed Kate in The Pirates of Penzance with Scottish Opera and was subsequently offered an Emerging Artist Contract with the company for the 2013/14 season where her roles included Eduige in Rodelinda and Third Witch in Macbeth. She has since performed as a Guest Artist with the company in the roles of Third Dryad in Rusalka; Pitti-Sing in The Mikado and was also a soloist on their Opera Highlights Tour of Scotland.

In 2017 she made her Spanish début as Olga in Eugene Onegin with Opera Valladolid and performed Second Lady in The Magic Flute with Longborough Festival Opera. Other opera experiences include cover Olga in Eugene Onegin and Annina in La Traviata for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; cover Edwige in Rodelinda for English National Opera; Title Role in a Welsh language translation of Carmen at the National Eisteddfod of Wales with Opra Cymru. As a student she sang Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro for British Youth Opera and Frau Reich in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Marta in Iolanta; Mere Jeanne in Dialogues des Carmelites; cover Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmelites and cover Florence Pike in Albert whilst at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.