British mezzo-soprano Angelina Dorlin-Barlow holds the Fishmongers’ Company Scholarship, supported by the Karaviotis Scholarship, at the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, where she is under the tutelage of Patricia Bardon.

She is one of Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists for 2026, a Samling Artist, and is also supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the Drake Calleja Trust, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Angelina was a London Transport Museum Artist for 2025.

In 2020, Angelina was selected as a featured Bitesize Proms Young Artist and won the Norma Procter Song Prize in the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Competition. At the RCM, she was awarded Best Undergraduate Vocal Performance in the Brooks Van Der Pump English Song Competition in 2021 and the Poppy Holden Prize for Vocal in 2023.

Angelina has appeared as a solo recitalist at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Music Room and has performed as a soloist in prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall. In 2022, she performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Astra Desmond in Vaughan Williams’ A Serenade to Music at the Royal Festival Hall, Saffron Hall, and on BBC Radio 3. Angelina was featured in the first season and Christmas Special of Channel 4’s The Piano.

In 2023, Angelina performed with British Youth Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, taking on the roles of Third Shining One, Cup-bearer, Pickthank, and Woodcutter’s Boy in Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress. She was named a Cecil King Scholar at the Oxford International Song Festival, where she premiered her own composition, Prison, under the pseudonym Lorainne Glorinda Lawb. Angelina was also a Shipston Song Rising Star for 2025.

Angelina covered the role of the Jewish Child in the 2023 world premiere of Noah Max’s chamber opera A Child in Striped Pyjamas in London and again at the 2024 Brundibár Festival. With The Mozartists, she performed the role of the Bridesmaid in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Cadogan Hall and at Teatro Massimo Comunale in Syracuse, Italy, later covering the same role at the 2025 Glyndebourne Festival. In 2024, Angelina was honoured to create the role of Mia in the world premiere of Link in My Bio by Charlotte Marlow and Dirty Freud at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Roles at the RCM International Opera Studio have included the Dog and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen and Ramiro in La finta giardiniera.

Angelina has performed in masterclasses with esteemed artists including Christopher Purves, Gerald Finley OC CBE, Neal Davies, Michael Chance CBE, Nicky Spence OBE, Jennifer Johnston, and Roderick Williams OBE.

Angelina performs regularly on the concert platform, with recent highlights including Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Jonathan Willcocks at G Live and Chichester Cathedral; Bach’s St John Passion with the Monteverdi String Band at Romsey Abbey; Handel’s Messiah under Adrian Partington at Gloucester Cathedral; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Haydn’s Nelson Mass at the West Road Concert Hall, with the latter also performed more recently at Cadogan Hall; and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Liverpool Bach Collective.

Angelina joined the Glyndebourne Chorus for its 2025 season, performing in productions of Parsifal, Saul, Falstaff, and The Marriage of Figaro. During the 2026 Festival, Angelina will perform in Tosca, Il turco in Italia, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She is also covering the role of Ninfa in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.

Angelina and pianist Firoze Madon have recently released the first recordings of Moments of Freedom, a new song cycle by Joanna Borrett, which are now available to stream on all digital platforms.

 

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