| Biography | Lucy Crowe is a British soprano in opera and concert. She has performed at international opera houses and music festivals such as the Glyndebourne Festival and Rheingau Musik Festival.
Born in Staffordshire, England, Crowe studied voice at the Royal Academy of Music. Crowe received the Royal Overseas Gold Medal in 2002, and won second prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2005.
In the field of historically informed performance she has collaborated with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Sixteen, The King's Consort and Les Musiciens du Louvre, among others. She has sung in Mozart's Requiem, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Haydn's oratorios The Creation and The Seasons with John Eliot Gardiner. In 2010 she performed at Wigmore Hall with Rolando Villazon and the Gabrieli Consort conducted by Paul McCreesh:
In 2012 she sang the soprano part in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony on a festival tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Crowe made her debut with the Scottish Opera, appearing as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. In April 2007 her Drusilla, in The Coronation of Poppea with English National Opera was described as "feisty". Also in 2007 she joined ENO in David McVicar's staging of Handel's Agrippina. In April 2012 she performed for the first time the part of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Royal Opera, stepping in at short notice on a recommendation by conductor John Eliot Gardiner.[4] In May and June 2013 she performed the title role of Leo Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Glyndebourne Festival. s
In 2013 she sang Gilda again at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducted by Roberto Rizzi Brignoli.
In 2014 she sang Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore at the Royal Opera.
In 2015 Crowe performed in Couperins Leçons des ténèbres at the Spitalfields Festival. (July 2015) |