Ed Lyon
Tenor
Ed Lyon studied at St John’s College Cambridge, the RAM and the NOS. He has a wide repertoire ranging from the baroque to contemporary music and has appeared in many of the world’s leading opera and concert venues including the ROH, Glyndebourne, Bayerische Staatsoper, Dutch National Opera, Teatro Real, Edinburgh, Aix, Salzburg, Holland and Aldeburgh Festivals and the BBC Proms.
Highlights have included the main role in Denisov’s L’écume des jours (Stuttgart Opera), Steva/Jenufa (Opera North), Lurcanio / Ariodante, Steurerman / Der fliegende Holländer and Walther /Tannhäuser (ROH), Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni and Lurcanio (Scottish Opera), Jaquino/Fidelio (Madrid) and Alessandro / Eliogabolo for Dutch National Opera. Recent and future engagements include Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Don Gomez / Henry VIII (La Monnaie), Septimius / Theodora (Covent Garden and Madrid), Lurcanio (New Israeli Opera) and in a new production for Covent Garden, Belmonte / Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and the main singer in Clorinda Agonistes (The Grange Festival), Quint / The Turn of the Screw, the title role in Orfeo and Grimoaldo / Rodelinda for Garsington, Eduardo/ Ades’ Exterminating Angel (Salzburg Festival and Covent Garden), title role in Candide (WNO), performances worldwide of The Diary of One who Disappeared in a staged production with Musiktheater Transparent, Ferdinand / Miranda (Oper Köln).
Concert work includes Evangelist / St Matthew Passion with the Bach Choir, Evangelist and arias / St John Passion with the RLPO, Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion at the opening concert of the 2024 Edinburgh Festival, War Requiem with the NDR Hanover and the RLPO, a tour of Europe and US performing Beethoven 9 with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra / Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Missa Solemnis with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The Apostles with the Hallé Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder, various performances of Messiah all around the world as well as many concert performances with leading orchestras and ensembles internationally. He has also given solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall.
His recording 17th Century Playlist with the Theatre of the Ayre has received wide acclaim as has Arnold’s The Dancing Master for Resonus Classics.
