Opera
"Smiths soprano is a plush instrument, with bags of colour and integrated register: very easy on the ear."
Bachtrack
This season Faryl will be an Opera Holland Park Young Artist in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and performing at Waterperry Opera Festival.
Faryl covered the role of Giannetta in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at Glyndebourne Festival Opera as well as chorus for Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Giovanni and Semele. Other operatic roles include Sister Rose in the London stage premier of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Guildhall Opera), Mariuccia in Nino Rota’s I due timidi (Guildhall Opera), Berta from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia for Clonter Opera and Kathleen in the Opera Makers new chamber opera Bloody Murder written by Luke Byrne and Shirley Keane delivered in association with The Royal Opera House.
Faryl has also performed in many different opera scenes, playing roles such as Adina from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Vixen from Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, Fiordiligi from Mozart's Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magda from Puccini's La Rondine.
She was given the opportunity by The Felix Mendelssohn Foundation to sing in Leipzig at Mendelssohn-Haus, she also received The Ann Wyburd Prize for her performance of German Lied and was a Sybil Tutton Opera Award Holder,
She became a Samling Young Artist in 2021 and had the opportunity to work with renowned coaches and conductors such as; Sir Thomas Allen CBE and Sir Mark Elder CBE and is also proud to be an ambassador for The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.