Ed Lyon - Tenor

Ed Lyon was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a BA in History of Art in 2001. He is now in his final year at Royal Academy Opera.

Ed made his oratorio 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. He has since performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, Birmingham Symphony Hall, St John's Smith Square and the Albert Hall, under conductors including Sir David Willcocks, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Charles Mackerras.

Operatic roles include Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, the title role in Albert Herring, the Schoolmaster in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Ecclitico in Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna and the Male Chorus i n The Rape of Lucretia.

Future performances include Hylas in Handel's Hercules for the London Handel Orchestra, Elijah in Gloucester Cathedral and the role of Kornelis in Saint-Saens one act opera La Princesse Jaune at the R.A.M.

Ed is grateful to the Sybil Tutton Trust for their support.



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