Lucy Crowe, Handelian heroine

September 5, 2026, 4:00 pm

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Lucy Crowe posing on a grassy bank, sun setting behind her which casts a light on her blonde hair softening the contrast of the portrait.
Lucy Crowe (Photo: Victoria Cadisch)

Soprano Lucy Crowe is internationally acclaimed for her work across opera, concert, and recital. Her repertoire spans music from the Baroque to the twentieth century, encompassing roles including the title role in Rodelinda, Pamina (The Magic Flute), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Musetta (La bohème), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, alongside major concert works by Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss. She appears regularly with many of the world’s leading opera houses, orchestras and conductors, including The Royal Opera and Ballet, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real Madrid, and the Metropolitan Opera. This summer, she made her house debut as Rodelinda at the Santa Fe Opera where she joined host Oliver Camacho to share her approach to singing Handel.

 

Playlist

All selections feature soprano Lucy Crowe.

George Frideric Handel: “V’adoro pupille” from Giulio Cesare n Egitto, HWV 17
La Nuova Musica/David Bates

Handel: “Hush, ye pretty warbling choir!” from Acis and Galatea, HWV 49
Early Opera Company/Christian Curnyn

Handel: “Lascia la spina” from Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a 
The English Concert/Harry Bicket

Handel: “Scoglio d’immota fronte” from Scipione, HWV 20 
London Early Opera/Bridget Cunningham

Richard Strauss: Die Nacht, Op. 10, No. 3
Anna Tilbrook, piano

Claude Debussy: Quatre chansons de jeunesse
I. Pantomime
II. Clair de lune
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Handel: Rodelinda, regina de’ Longobardi, HWV 19 
“Ho perduto il caro sposo”
“L’empio rigor del fato”
The English Concert/Harry Bicket