Lucy Crowe OBE is globally renowned as a leading Handelian, delighting audiences with interpretations of many of his heroines. In 2025 she revived the role of Rodelinda at the Garsington festival which she sang in 2024 with The English Concert and Harry Bicket in Asia and the U.S.A., culminating in a stunning performance at Carnegie Hall, and in staged productions in Madrid, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. She will re-visit the role in Santa Fe in 2026, marking her debut at the festival.
This season Lucy returns to The Royal Opera and Ballet singing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and her concerts include Messiah with both Rafael Payare and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with Edward Gardner and to the London Symphony Orchestra for Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. with Sir Simon Rattle.
A prolific recording artist, in 2021 she received a Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording for Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle, a BBC Music Magazine award nomination for Rodelinda with TEC and Harry Bicket and released her debut recital recording for Linn Records featuring Berg, Strauss and Schoenberg.
