Biography

Lynsey was born in Salisbury and read Music at City University with vocal training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying privately since with Jacqueline Bremar and Phillip Thomas. Recent opera roles include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), the title role in The Merry Widow, Micaela (Carmen), Liu (Turandot) with companies including The Mastersingers Company at the Linbury, Royal Opera House, Suffolk Opera, Candlelight Opera, White Horse Opera, with previous roles studied and performed including Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte), Pamina/ 1st Lady (Magic Flute), Countess/ Susanna (Figaro), Flora (La Traviata), Giannetta (Elixir of Love), Marenka (Bartered Bride). Future plans include her first Violetta in the summer of 2010.

Active as a recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed in St. Martin in the Fields, the Purcell Room, Southbank, Chelmsford Cathedral, Cheltenham Town Hall, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Blenheim Palace and for many music societies nationwide. Her many critically acclaimed oratorio appearances in venues such as Exeter and Norwich cathedrals include Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Exeter Philharmonic Choir), Mozart C Minor Mass & Linley Song of Moses (Aylesbury Choral Society), Mozart Vespers (Norwich Cathedral), Brahms’ Requiem (Hayes Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Faure Requiem (Norwich Cathedral), Beethoven Mass in C (Henley Choral Society) and upcoming performances include Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle with the Sussex Chorus. She recently performed for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Operantics weekend in Fife and future plans also include collaborations with London's newest orchestra Harmony Sinfonia (cond. Lindsay Ryan) performing Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder and with the Salisbury Sinfonia (cond. Tim Murray) performing Beethoven's Ah! Perfido and Duparc songs.

Her keen interest in contemporary opera has lead to world premiere performances in Howard Fredric’s The Whitechapel Whirlwind at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London and creating the role of Helen Kingshaw in Richard Peat’s chamber opera I’m the King of the Castle at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.

Lynsey is passionate about opera in education and as such is heavily involved in projects as both performer and vocal animateur with companies such as the Norwich Theatre Royal, Create2Learn and Children’s Music Workshops. She has recently formed her own company, Creative Operatunities which carries out opera-based education projects.

Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

Photo: Peter West