OPERA

Der Freischütz

Oldenburgisches Staatstheather, Germany

September 2024

"Agathe 's enormously demanding role is in the very best hands with Elizabeth Llewellyn. Her voice has the necessary carrying power and an almost unearthly clarity in the high notes. No top note is ever forced. The register transitions are seamless, smooth and very heartfelt" (IOCO)

Peter Grimes

Opera North, UK

September 2023

"Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Ellen Orford is motivated wholly by compassion and her voice – which projects a huge, generous luminosity without sounding fierce or forced – is like a patch of sunlight on the roiling sea-and-cloudscape of Britten’s score.” -The Spectator

Ariadne auf Naxos

Opera North, UK

February 2023

“The big attraction here is a pair of over-the-top vocal set-pieces: the first for Ariadne, deeply serious and gloriously sustained by Llewellyn.”‍— The Telegraph

Otello

Grange Park Opera, UK

June 2022

“Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Desdemona has superb top notes of unearthly directness and purity”— The Telegraph

Jenůfa

Welsh National Opera, UK

March 2022

“With Elizabeth Llewellyn in the title role, it is Jenůfa’s intrinsic goodness that emerges so convincingly: her singing had great poise and lyrical line, she coloured the tenderness and compassion of her character, her agony at Stevushka’s loss simply heart-rending.” -The Guardian

Luisa Miller

English National Opera, UK

February 2022

“With her compellingly focused voice, Elizabeth Llewellyn is superb in the title role.” -The Times

Falstaff

Scottish Opera, UK

July 2021

"Chief among the ladies is Elizabeth Llewellyn, whose rich, opulent voice brings aristocratic warmth to Alice" -The Times

Mimi

Scottish Opera, Theater Magdeburg, English National Opera

September 2020

“With her impressive vocal range and her spectacular stage presence she received applause time and again.” -Volkstimme

Aida

Theater Bielefeld, Germany

November 2019

“With seductive vocal potential and great intensity, guest soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn beguiled.” -Die Glocke

Porgy & Bess

Royal Danish Opera, Seattle Opera, The Metropolitan Opera

October 2019

“Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Bess was equally captivating. Her golden-toned voice had many colours and convincingly expressed everything from hope to despair, love to loneliness. Her acting was also many-faceted, showing Bess’ vulnerability and most of all why Bess loves Porgy” -Seen and Heard International

Manon Lescaut

Opera Holland Park, UK

June 2019

“The redeeming feature of the evening was Elizabeth Llewellyn’s kittenish Manon, sung with a stylistic delicacy and refinement of phrasing.” -The Telegraph

Mefistofele

Chelsea Opera Group, UK

March 2019

“Elizabeth Llewellyn brought her sweet yet rich and beautifully shaped soprano to the fore in the roles of Margherita and Elena.” -Music OMH

Madama Butterfly

Royal Danish Opera, Denmark

September 2017

“…the English soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn sings brilliantly as Cio-Cio San, Madame Butterfly” -Sklassisk.dk

La Rondine

Opera Holland Park, UK

June 2017

“Elizabeth Llewellyn is a perfect Magda, warm and lively yet wistful in her Act I soliloquy.” - Mark Ronan

Tosca

Theater Magdeburg, Germany

October 2016

Il Trittico

Royal Danish Opera, Denmark

November 2015

“Elizabeth Llewellyn [is] strong, open and pivotal as hybrid Giorgetta/Angelica” -Andrew Mellor, @operalastnight

Don Giovanni

Bergen National Opera, Norway

March 2015

“The ladies…are brilliant in their own way. Elizabeth Llewellyn had authority in her interpretation of Donna Elvira.” - Bergen Tidende

Lohengrin

Theater Magdeburg, Germany

September 2014

“A beguiling luminous voice that alternates between perfect dreamy sounds and effortless power, and on top of that offers exemplary diction. This must be a name to remember.” -Neue Musik Zeitung

Simon Boccannegra

English Touring Opera

March 2013

“Elizabeth Llewellyn uncorks passages of glorious timbre as Amelia…” -The Times

Così fan tutte

Opera Holland Park, UK

June 2012

“[Dorabella’s] antics … are a foil to the moving vulnerability of Elizabeth Llewellyn’s outstanding Fiordiligi, whose Per pietà is racked by inner sadness.” -The Times

Le nozze di Figaro

Opera Holland Park & English National Opera, UK

July 2011

“Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Countess combined with great success beauty of tone and poignancy of affect” - Seen and Heard International