[1] The Angas family were keen amateur musicians, and Richard, who was born in Esher in Greater London, became a chorister at the Royal School of Church Music as well as joining a local choral group.
[1] He created roles in The Catiline Conspiracy (Hamilton, 1974), We Come to the River (Henze, 1975), The Mask of Orpheus (Birtwistle, 1986), Master and Margarita (Höller, 1989), Wagner Dream (Harvey, 2013), The Merchant of Venice (Tchaikowsky, 2013).
Commercial records include a priest in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron conducted by Boulez in 1974, Simon Magus and Envy in The Pilgrim's Progress in 1971 under Boult, and the Cuisinière in The Love for Three Oranges under Denève in 2005.
[2] Angas died in Leeds, where a concert celebrating his life and career was held at the Grand Theatre on 16 February 2014; it attracted thirty major singers and five conductors from several UK opera companies.
Lesley Garrett, Susan Bullock and Jean Rigby sang the "Three Little Maids" from The Mikado, songs by Ireland and Schubert and Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music were performed, and there were readings by colleagues.