Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is now a Fellow and the Giulia Grisi Professor of Performance Mentoring.
With repertoire ranging from Purcell, Handel and Mozart to Donizetti’s Adina and Verdi’s Gilda, she has sung with opera companies and orchestras all over the world, including the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Dutch National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Monteverdi Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and London Symphony Orchestra.
Concert highlights include a European tour of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Dunedin Consort, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO), concerts of Haydn and Schubert arias also with the BRSO, Morgana in Alcina with Les Violons du Roy in Quebec and Montreal, and her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra for concerts of selected Mozart arias. In recital she has appeared at the Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall, the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Mostly Mozart and Salzburg festivals and the BBC Proms.
Lucy has a vast discography. Her debut disc for Linn records featuring Berg, Strauss and Schoenberg was released in the summer of 2021. She received a Grammy nomination in 2021 for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle.