Biography
Soprano
Lucy Crowe
Lucy Crowe has sung at the Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Bavarian State Opera, in repertoire ranging from Purcell, Handel, and Mozart to Donizetti, Verdi, and Janáček. Recent highlights include Musetta in La Bohème and Poppea in Agrippina at the Royal Opera House, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, and the title role in Rodelinda with the English Concert at Carnegie Hall. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with this program.
This season, Crowe also appears in Brahms’s German Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Simon Rattle, gives recitals at Wigmore Hall, and makes her role debut as Malinka/Etherea/Kunka in Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and in concert with the London Symphony and Rattle. She has previously appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. She received a Grammy nomination in 2021 for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony and Rattle.
Born in Staffordshire, England, Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a fellow. She was made an OBE in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours.
This season, Crowe also appears in Brahms’s German Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Simon Rattle, gives recitals at Wigmore Hall, and makes her role debut as Malinka/Etherea/Kunka in Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and in concert with the London Symphony and Rattle. She has previously appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. She received a Grammy nomination in 2021 for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony and Rattle.
Born in Staffordshire, England, Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a fellow. She was made an OBE in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours.
