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Wyn Pencarreg

Bass Baritone

Welsh bass baritone Wyn Pencarreg studied at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining many prizes and scholarships including awards from the Countess of Munster Trust, the Peter Moores Foundation and the Wolfson Foundation. He was also a winner of the Erich Vietheer Memorial Award from Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

In the current season he performs Alcindoro La bohème (Royal Ballet & Opera); Doctor Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro and the covers of Talpa and Simone Il trittico and Swallow Peter Grimes (Welsh National Opera).

Among his recent highlights are Alcindoro La bohème, Padre Sansón The Exterminating Angel, Flemish Deputy Don Carlos (Royal Ballet & Opera); Le Sire de Béthune Les vêpres siciliennes, Barone Dauphol La traviata, Sir Gualtiero Raleigh Roberto Devereux, Alcade La forza del destino (Welsh National Opera); and First Nazarene Salome, Le Bailli Werther (Irish National Opera).

His operatic roles include Count Le nozze di Figaro (Mid Wales Opera, Opera Theatre Company Dublin); Figaro Le nozze di Figaro (Opera North, English Touring Opera); Leporello Don Giovanni (Opera North, Diva Opera, Mid Wales Opera); Papageno The Magic Flute, Lescaut Manon (English Touring Opera); Masetto Don Giovanni (Opera North, Glyndebourne); Father Hänsel und Gretel, de Brétigny Manon, (Opera North); Kuligin Kát’a Kabanová (Glyndebourne); Balthasar Genoveva, King Die liebe der Danaë, Morbio Die schweigsame Frau, Premysl Sárka (Garsington Opera); Sharpless Madam Butterfly, Four Villains The Tales of Hoffmann, Ford Falstaff (Mid Wales Opera); Don Belfiore Le Toréador (Batignano Festival); Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Morales Carmen, Schaunard La bohème (Royal Albert Hall); Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Marcello La bohème, Sharpless (Lyric Opera Dublin); Badger/Parson The Cunning Little Vixen (Longborough Festival Opera); Captain Corcoran HMS Pinafore (Carl Rosa Opera); Don Inigo Gomez L’heure espagnole (Opera Project); Alidoro La Cenerentola (Grange Park Opera); Valens Theodora, Achilla Giulio Cesare (Opéra de Baugé); and Luka The Bear (Opéra de Monte-Carlo).

In contemporary opera Wyn has performed Papin Babette’s Feast (Royal Opera House); Francis in Julian Grant’s Jump Into My Sack (Covent Garden Festival); Malcontent in Jonathan Dove’s In Search of Angels (Glyndebourne Education); David Perkins’s oratorio Re:Creation at St John’s Smith Square; and Lalchand The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (The Opera Group).

Concert appearances include Messiah (Ulster Orchestra and Glyndebourne); Voice of Neptune Idomeneo (Hallé Orchestra); Hermann Ortel Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra); and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Walton Belshazzar’s Feast at the St Albans Festival.

Steven Swales Artist Management represents Wyn Pencarreg worldwide

Reviews

Dr Bartolo / The Barber of Seville / Ulster Touring Opera / 2023

“Doctor Bartolo, magnificently rendered by Wyn Pencarreg…”
(Opera Now)

“Wyn Pencarreg and Lorena Paz Nieto were both terrific in the roles of Bartolo and Berta respectively. Pencarreg brought the lecherous but hopelessly out-manoeuvred Bartolo to life, and he negotiated Rossini’s rapid-fire coloratura with brio.”
(Seen & Heard International)


Alcindoro / La bohème / Royal Ballet & Opera / 2022

“Jeremy White and Wyn Pencarreg squeeze all available juice out of opera’s two most put-upon seniors, Benoit and Alcindoro.”
(The Stage)

“Wyn Pencarreg offers a full voice with great presence as Alcindoro…”
(Olyrix)


Sir Gualtiero Raleigh / Roberto Devereux / Welsh National Opera / 2019

“Wyn Pencarreg was a dignified Raleigh…”
(Opera)

News

Welsh National Opera

6, 8, 27 Feb | 9, 12,  Apr | 1, 3, 8, 15 May | 6 Jun 2025

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Conductor: Kerem Hasan
Director:
Tobias Richter

Welsh National Opera

5, 8, 11, 30 Apr | 10, 17 May | 7 Jun 2025

Britten: Peter Grimes
Conductor: Tomáš Hanus 
Director:
Melly Still

 
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