Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a Fellow. She was made an OBE in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours.

With repertoire ranging from Purcell, Handel and Mozart to Donizetti’s Adina, Verdi’s Gilda and Janacek’s Vixen, she has sung with opera companies throughout the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Recent opera highlights include her debut at Dutch National Opera in the title role Rodelinda, Musetta La Boheme and Poppea Agrippina at the Royal Opera House, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera and Pamina Die Zauberflöte at the Liceu Barcelona.

In concert, she has performed with many of the world’s finest conductors and orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic/Harding, Haïm and Nelsons, Vienna Philharmonic/Nelsons, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Haïm, Oramo and Nelsons, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Egarr, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin, the Monteverdi Orchestra/Gardiner, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano, the London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle and Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel.

Recent appearances include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO), Peri in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri at the BBC Proms with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and with the BRSO, Morgana Alcina with the Les Violons du Roy in Quebec and Montreal, and her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra for performances selected Mozart arias. This season Lucy sings the title role Rodelinda with the English Concert and Harry Bicket on a tour to the US and Asia, selected Haydn and Weber arias with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Maxim Emelyanychev, selected Mozart arias with the Tampere Philharmonic and Brahms’ Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society both with Bernard Labadie, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment and Andras Schiff and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mass in C Minor and tour with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra.

A committed recitalist she has appeared at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Mostly Mozart and Salzburg Festivals, and is a regular guest at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall.

Her recordings include Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the LSO/ Gardner; Handel’s Il Pastor Fido and Handel & Vivaldi with La Nuova Musica/David Bates for Harmonia Mundi; works by Lutoslawski with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Gardner, Handel’s Alceste with the Early Opera Company/Curnyn and Eccles’ The Judgement of Paris all for Chandos; a solo Handel disc ll Caro Sassone and Handel’s Rodelinda and La Resurrezione with the English Concert/Bicket, Handel’s Queens with London Early Opera, and MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder. Her debut recital recording featuring Berg, Strauss, and Schoenberg songs was released by Linn Records in August 2021. Lucy received a Grammy nomination in 2021 for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra/ Sir Simon Rattle.

Photo credit: Victoria Cadisch