Biography

Lynsey read Music at City University with vocal training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying privately since with Jacqueline Bremar and Phillip Thomas. Recent opera roles include Violetta (La Traviata), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), the title role in The Merry Widow, Micaela (Carmen), with companies including The Mastersingers Company at the Linbury, Royal Opera House, Riverside Opera, Candlelight Opera, The Wagner Society, Suffolk Opera, White Horse Opera, with early roles including Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte), Pamina/ 1st Lady (Magic Flute), Countess/ Susanna (Figaro), Flora (La Traviata) & Giannetta (Elixir of Love). In 2011 she sings the role of Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) in a touring production by Opera della luna as well as Constance (The Sorcerer) for the same company and covers the title role of Tosca for the Dorset Opera Festival directed by Dame Josephine Barstow.

On the concert platform she has performed in St. Martin in the Fields, the Purcell Room, Southbank, Chelmsford Cathedral, Cheltenham Town Hall, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury Cathedral, Blenheim Palace and for many music societies nationwide. Her critically acclaimed oratorio appearances in venues such as Exeter and Norwich cathedrals include Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Exeter Philharmonic Choir), Mozart C Minor Mass & Linley Song of Moses (Aylesbury Choral Society), Mozart Vespers (Norwich Cathedral), Brahms’ Requiem (Hayes Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Faure Requiem (Norwich Cathedral), Beethoven Mass in C (Henley Choral Society) and Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle with the Sussex Chorus. She recently performed for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Operantics in Fife, also with London's newest orchestra Harmony Sinfonia (cond. Lindsay Ryan) performing Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder and she will sing Beethoven's Ah! Perfido and Duparc songs with the Salisbury Sinfonia (cond. Tim Murray) in 2011.

Her keen interest in contemporary opera has led to world premiere performances in Howard Fredric’s The Whitechapel Whirlwind at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London and creating the role of Helen Kingshaw in Richard Peat’s chamber opera I’m the King of the Castle at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.