Lucy Crowe

Lucy was born in Staffordshire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal in 2002, won the Second Prize at the 2005 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and was made a Wigmore Young Artist. Already in demand as a recitalist, she has given recitals at Wigmore Hall and at the Belfast Festival, St Martin in the Fields, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Chelsea Arts Club and the National Portrait Gallery.

She has sung with the English Concert under Andrew Manze and Lawrence Cummings, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Richard Egarr, the Sixteen under Harry Christophers, the Kings Consort under Robert King and the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox and Trevor Pinnock. At the Aldeburgh Festival she has sung ‘Acis and Galatea’ under Richard Egarr, Britten’s ‘Praise we Great Men’ with the CBSO under Sakari Oramo, and Mendelssohn’s ‘Lobgesang’ under Paul Daniel. She recently made her debut for Scottish Opera, as Sophie in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ and for English National Opera, as Poppea in ‘Agrippina’. Other opera engagements include Susanna in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ for Garsington Opera and Opera North, Elisa in 'Il Re Pastore' for Garsington Opera, Michal in Handel’s ‘Saul’ for Opera North, the title role in ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ with British Youth Opera, Narcissa in Haydn’s ‘Philemon und Baucis’ in the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival under Trevor Pinnock and Juno in Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ for the London Bach Festival at The Linbury Studio, Covent Garden.

Future engagements include Drusilla in ‘The Coronation of Poppea’ for ENO, Nanetta in ‘Falstaff’ for Scottish Opera and Sophie in 'Der Rosenkavalier' for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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