Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

Her operatic roles include Servilia (‘La Clemenza di Tito’) for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Susanna (‘Le Nozze di Figaro’), Gilda (‘Rigoletto’) and Belinda (‘Dido and Aeneas’) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Sophie (‘Der Rosenkavalier’) for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Covent Garden; Gilda for the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Rosina (‘The Barber of Seville’), Poppea (‘Agrippina’) and Drusilla (‘The Coronation of Poppea’) for English National Opera; Dorinda (‘Orlando’) in Lille, Paris and for the Opera de Dijon and ‘The Fairy Queen’ and the title role in ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She made her US Opera debut as Iole in Handel’s ‘Hercules’ for the Chicago Lyric Opera.

In concert she has performed with many of the world’s finest conductors and orchestras including the Australian Chamber Orchestra under Tognetti; the Philadelphia Orchestra under Nezet-Seguin; the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival under Denève; the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, Edward Gardner, Emanuelle Haim and Sakari Oramo; the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Iván Fischer; the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Charles Mackerras and Richard Egarr; the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Mackerras and Nezet-Seguin; the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock, Andrew Manze and Laurence Cummings; the Sixteen under Harry Christophers; the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh; and the Monteverdi Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Lucy has performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and, most recently, at the Salzburg Festival with the Monteverdi Choir Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Haydn’s ‘Creation’. She has given recitals at the Brighton, Belfast, Norfolk and Norwich Festivals and at London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields and Wigmore Hall.

Her recordings include Handel’s ‘Il Pastor Fido’ and a Handel & Vivaldi disc with La Nuova Musica under David Bates for Harmonia Mundi; a Lutoslawski disc with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, Handel’s ‘Alceste’ with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company, and Eccles’ ‘The Judgement of Paris’ all for Chandos; and a solo Handel disc - ll Caro Sassone – with Harry Bicket and the English Concert on Harmonia Mundi.