Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a Fellow. She is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and accomplished singers of her generation and 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 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.

Globally renowned for her interpretations of Handel’s heroines, last season Lucy sang the title role of Rodelinda with the English Concert and Harry Bicket on tour to Asia and the US, culminating in a stunning performance at Carnegie Hall. Having sung staged performances of the role in Madrid, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, she will revive Rodelinda at the Garsington Festival in 2025. Elsewhere, she sang Haydn and Weber arias with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Maxim Emelyanychev, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment and Andras Schiff, and made her role debut as Tytania A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Garsington Festival. In the 2024/25 season she makes her role debut as Malinka/Etherea/Kunka in Janácek’s The Excursions of Mr Broucek at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and in concert with the LSO and Rattle, and will sing Mozart arias with the San Francisco Symphony and Labadie and Brahms Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Rattle.

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.