British mezzo-soprano Angelina Dorlin-Barlow studies at the Royal College of Music where she is a Fishmongers’ Company Scholar under the tutelage of Patricia Bardon. She is also a supported by the Josephine Baker Trust and is a Samling Artist.
In 2020, Angelina was a featured Bitesize Proms Young Artist and received the Norma Procter Song Prize in the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Competition. At RCM, she was awarded Best Undergraduate Vocal Performance at the Brooks Van Der Pump English Song Competition 2021 and the Poppy Holden Prize for Vocal 2023. Angelina has appeared as a solo recitalist at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Music Room and as a soloist in many venues including the Royal Albert Hall. In 2022, she featured as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, Saffron Hall and on BBC Radio 3 singing the role of Astra Desmond in A Serenade to Music by Vaughan Williams. In the British Youth Opera 2023 production with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, she performed as Third Shining One, Cup-bearer, Pickthank, and Woodcutter’s Boy in Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress. Angelina was a Cecil King Scholar at the Oxford International Song Festival 2023 where she premiered her composition Prison under the pseudonym Lorainne Glorinda Lawb. 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 Brundibár Festival 2024. Angelina was invited to feature in the first season and Christmas Special of Channel 4’s The Piano. She has performed in masterclasses with Neal Davies, Michael Chance CBE, Nicky Spence OBE, Jennifer Johnston, and Roderick Williams OBE.
Angelina performs regularly on the concert platform and recent repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem for the Leith Hill Music Festival, Bach’s St John Passion with the Monteverdi String Band at Romsey Abbey, Haydn’s Nelson Mass with Collegium Laureatum at West Road Concert Hall, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Liverpool Bach Collective.
This season, Angelina will perform the role of the Bridesmaid in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with The Mozartists at Cadogan Hall and at the Teatro Massimo Comunale, Syracuse, Italy. Angelina looks forward to creating the role of Mia in Link in My Bio by Charlotte Marlow and Dirty Freud at the Théâtres de La Ville Luxembourg. Angelina will also appear as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah under Adrian Partington at Gloucester Cathedral, and in Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Jonathan Willcocks in both Guilford and Chichester.