page_title: Elin Manahan Thomas
section_title: Performances
hierarchical_section_title: Elin Manahan Thomas / Performances
caption_attribution_description: End of the show and everyone takes a bow! Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular
context_page_description: Elin Manahan Thomas is a Welsh soprano. A specialist in Baroque music, she sang at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018.
context_section_description: Concert performances include Mozart Vespers in the Mostly Mozart Festival for Harry Christophers; Britten’s Death in Venice for Richard Hickox in the QEH; Mozart concert arias with the Gabrieli Consort in the Barbican Hall; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Peter Schreier in St John's, Smith Square; Mozart's Mass in C Minor in King's College Chapel; Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in the Snape Maltings; Haydn's Heiligemesse and Mozart Vespers on a tour of the USA; the Monteverdi Vespers in St Mark's, Venice; Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream in the Palau de la Música, Barcelona; and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Seoul and Kuala Lumpur. She has performed Judith Weir's King Harald's Saga in collaboration with the composer, and premièred Sir John Tavener's latest work Shunya at his 60th birthday concert. She visited Rochester Cathedral for a Classic FM Concert at Christmas 2008. She performed Handel's Eternal source of light divine during the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony in London. In July 2013, Elin performed at two special Doctor Who Proms, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the show.
  In 2016, Manahan Thomas was the soprano soloist in the première of Karl Jenkins' choral work, Cantata Memoria: For the children, at the Wales Millennium Centre. She also features on the première recording of the work.
  On 19 May 2018 she sang Eternal source of light divine at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, accompanied by the event's orchestra and with David Blackadder playing the trumpet obbligato.
  On the operatic stage, Thomas has played:
  Pamina (Mozart The Magic Flute)
  The Governess (Britten Turn of the Screw)
  Micaela (Bizet Carmen)
  Ninetta (Mozart La finta semplice)
  Arminda (Mozart La finta giardiniera)
  Despina (Mozart Così fan tutte)
  Mermaid (Weber Oberon)
  Coryphée (Berlioz Les Troyens) at the Théâtre du Châtelet
  Angelica (Handel Orlando)
  Constance (Poulenc Dialogue des Carmelites)
  Lucy (Menotti The Telephone)
  Night/Nymph (Purcell The Fairy-Queen).
caption: Thomas, alongside Ben Foster and Peter Davison at the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular in Leeds, 2015
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