Widely regarded as one of the most versatile and respected singers of her generation, Lucy Crowe was awarded an OBE in the 2023 King’s birthday honours.
Equally at home in opera, concert, and recital, Lucy appears regularly with many of the world’s leading opera houses, orchestras, and conductors. Her repertoire spans music from the Baroque to the twentieth century, embracing roles such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Musetta (La bohème), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Janáček’s IThe Cunning Little Vixen, alongside major concert works by Mozart, Brahms, Strauss, Bach and Mahler. She has appeared with companies including The Royal Opera and Ballet, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real Madrid, and the Metropolitan Opera, and performs widely in concert with leading international orchestras.
This season Lucy returns to The Royal Opera and Ballet as Pamina Die Zauberflöte and makes her role debut as Fiordiligi Così fan tutte for English National Opera, before her Santa Fe Opera debut as Rodelinda. On the concert platform she sings Messiah with both Rafael Payare and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Yannick Nézet-Séguin with The Philadelphia Orchestra and appears with the London Symphony Orchestra in Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Sir Simon Rattle.
Last season she made her role debut as Malinka/Etherea/Kunka in Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, reprising the roles in concert with the LSO and Rattle and returned to Garsington Festival as Rodelinda. On the concert stage she sang Mozart arias with the San Francisco Symphony and Bernard Labadie, Brahms’s Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Rattle and Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Nézet-Séguin. She also gave numerous recitals at Wigmore Hall as part of her artist focus there.
An acclaimed recording artist, she received a Grammy nomination for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, alongside a BBC Music Magazine nomination for Rodelinda. Her debut recital disc for Linn Records features songs by Berg, Strauss, and Schoenberg, and her discography spans a wide range of operatic, orchestral, and solo repertoire.
