Born in Mid Wales, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones began her career as a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist. Other companies with which she has worked include English Touring Opera, Grange Park Opera, If Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, West Green House Opera, Opera Project and Festival Opera, New Zealand. She made her BBC Proms debut singing Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, and concert engagements have further included performances with Britten Sinfonia, Norwegian Wind Ensemble, London Mozart Players, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Recordings include Hugh Wood’s Beginnings for Resonus Classics, selected as a Sunday Times CD of the Week. For Mid Wales Opera she has sung Mother/Witch Hansel and Gretel.
Only a few months ago we thought Mid Wales Opera was finished. Now, thanks to a funding lifeline from Powys County Council, we are within touching distance of having a sustainable plan to keep on producing live and local opera across Wales for at least three years.