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Ed Lyon is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio. He made his professional 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.
More recently he has sung at the Royal Festival Hall London, Teatro degli Arcimboldi Milan, the Berlin Philharmonie, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
More recently he has sung at the Royal Festival Hall London, Teatro degli Arcimboldi Milan, the Berlin Philharmonie, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
Operatic roles include Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and the title role in Albert Herring for Opera East Productions and the Opera Project at Iford and Longborough.
He recently sang the part of the Schoolmaster in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen under Sir Charles Mackerras, Jupiter in Handel's Semele for the British Youth Opera, and Lucano in L'incorronazione di Poppea for the Opera Theatre Company in Dublin, Monteverdi's Orfeo with Le Concert d'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm in Lille, the Châtelet, Paris and Strasbourg, and Hyllus in Handel's Hercules with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in New York and London.
He recently sang the part of the Schoolmaster in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen under Sir Charles Mackerras, Jupiter in Handel's Semele for the British Youth Opera, and Lucano in L'incorronazione di Poppea for the Opera Theatre Company in Dublin, Monteverdi's Orfeo with Le Concert d'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm in Lille, the Châtelet, Paris and Strasbourg, and Hyllus in Handel's Hercules with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in New York and London.
Ed's future performances include Tamino for Opera North, Hercules for the Netherlands Opera, and Telemaco in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria for The Netherlands Opera and Welsh National Opera.
