Ed Lyon
(Tenors)
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Ed Lyon
(Tenors) Biography:
Ed Lyon was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio. He made his professional debut at Snape Maltings when he sang the Evangelist in Telemann's St. Matthew Passion, and returned to perform Britten's Cantata Misericordium and Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea. Operatic roles include Hyllus in Hercules with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in London and New York, the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the 2007 Aix Festival with René Jacobs, Pane/La Calisto with Ivor Bolton at Covent Garden and for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Telemaco in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria for Welsh National Opera, Tamino/The Magic Flute for Opera North, Lucano / L’incorronazione di Poppea for the Opera Theatre Company in Dublin and also at the Buxton and Aldeburgh Festivals, Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm in Paris, Lille, Caen, Strasbourg, Poppea and Ulisse with the Netherlands Opera, Lysander/A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Covent Garden and Opéra National de Lyon, Eurimaco / Ulisse in Madrid, and Purcell The Fairy Queen for the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival. Other roles include Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Jupiter in Handel’s Semele and concert performances of Tom Rakewell/The Rake’s Progress with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and most recently, Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the New London Consort. More recent concert engagements have included Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and Ivor Bolton (released on CD), Rameau Les Indes Galantes with Les Arts Florissants, Mozart Requiem with the Manchester Camerata and Sir Colin Davis and with Sir Roger Norrington at the Spitalfields Festival, Bach St.Matthew Passion with the Bach Choir in the Royal Festival Hall, Bach St John Passion in Rome, Britten War Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie, Messiah at Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music at the Edinburgh International Festival and at the BBC Proms, Haydn The Creation with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Haydn Nelson Mass with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Messiah with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Mozart Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Maxwell-Davies Solstice of Light for the 2009 BBC Proms and Britten Les Illuminations with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. Current and future operatic engagements include three projects with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie: the title role of Pygmalion by Rameau for the Aix, Holland and Athens Festivals, with concert performances in Beaune, Santiago and Lessay, The Fairy Queen in Paris and New York, and the title role of Charpentier’s Actéon in Paris, a return to the Royal Opera House for La Calisto and Hylas in Les Troyens, the role of Freddy in My Fair Lady at Theatre du Chatelet and a European Tour of The Fairy Queen with the New London Consort and Lully:Atys with Les Arts Florissants. Future concert performances include Bach B Minor Mass and Handel Alexander’s Feast with Ludus Baroque. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: Artist Links: |
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