Lucy Crowe

Born in Staffordshire Lucy Crowe is rapidly establishing herself as one of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2002 she received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal and in 2005 won second prize in Kathleen Ferrier Awards.

Concert engagements include Haydn’s ‘Creation’ and ‘Seasons’ with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Salle Pleyel, Paris and the Carnegie Hall, New York; ‘Elijah’ under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; ‘Messiah’ with the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock; ‘Il Ritorno di Tobias’ with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Roger Norrington, ‘Alexander’s Feast’ under Richard Egarr with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; performances with the English Concert under Andrew Manze and Laurence Cummings; the Sixteen under Harry Christophers; the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox and Trevor Pinnock; a European tour with English Concert; Mozart’s ‘Exsultate, Jubilate’ with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Mackerras; ‘Acis and Galatea’ with the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh in Zagreb and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; ‘Dido and Aeneas’ with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Richard Egarr at the Barbican and at the BBC Proms; ‘Messiah’ under Trevor Pinnock in Canada, Harry Christophers in Japan and Sir David Willcocks at the Royal Albert Hall; Gounod’s ‘Messe Solennelle’ in St Sulpice under Sir David Willcocks; Mendelssohn’s ‘Elijah’ with the King’s Consort in Birmingham, London, Spain and Lucerne; and Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ under Christophers at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival. At the Aldeburgh Festival she has sung ‘Acis and Galatea’ (Galatea) under Richard Egarr, Britten’s ‘Praise we Great Men’ with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo, and Mendelssohn’s ‘Lobgesang’ under Paul Daniel. At the Edinburgh Festival she has sung ‘Israel in Egypt’ under Emmanuel Haim.

Lucy has given recitals at the Brighton, Belfast, Norfolk and Norwich Festivals, London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields, Chelsea Arts Club, the National Portrait Gallery and the Wigmore Hall.

Lucy’s recent operatic engagements include Sophie (‘Der Rosenkavalier’) for the Royal Opera House, ‘The Fairy Queen’ with William Christie for Glyndebourne; her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut as Belinda in ‘Dido and Aeneas’, Drusilla in ‘The Coronation of Poppea’ for ENO; Nanetta in ‘Falstaff’ for Scottish Opera; Susanna in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ and ‘Il Re Pastore’ for Garsington Opera; Susanna and Michal in Handel’s ‘Saul’ for Opera North and the title role in ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ for British Youth Opera. She made her debut for Scottish Opera as Sophie in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ and as Poppea in ‘Agrippina’ for English National Opera both to great critical acclaim.

Future engagements include the role of Sophie for the Deutsche Oper Berlin and for her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. She also makes her Salzburg Festival debut with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Ingo Metzmacher.