Ailish Tynan soprano trained at Trinity College and Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She was a Vilar Young Artist at the ROH, a BBC New Generation Artist, and in 2003 won the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
Previously for ENO: Governess The Turn of the Screw, Tigrane Radamisto.
Notable engagements elsewhere: Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (ROH, Scottish Opera, WNO); Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte, Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madame Cortese Il viaggio a Reims, Madame Podtotshina’s Daughter The Nose (ROH); Mimì La bohème, Zemfira Aleko, Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen, Suor Angelica (Grange Park Opera); Papagena Die Zauberflöte (Teatro alla Scala, ROH); Despina Così fan tutte (Garsington Opera, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse); Héro Béatrice et Bénédict (Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique); Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Nannetta Falstaff, Atalanta Xerxes (Royal Swedish Opera); and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring (Opéra Comique, Opéra de Rouen).
Recently highlights include Christine in the world premiere of Festen (ROH) and Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia (Glyndebourne).
