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  • 19 June 2023

    Nicky Spence and Lucy Crowe recognised in King’s birthday honours

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  • 14 May 2021

    Harry Bicket, Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies release a “deluxe” Rodelinda

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Press

  • Handel Rodelinda Tour

    Carnegie Hall, New York
    Dec 2023

    • She has the depth and power of a Verdi soprano, the ornaments of a Monteverdi specialist, and the stage presence of a Laurence Olivier. She acts every word and every note, often swaying and weaving her whole body or stretching out her arms like an archangel’s wings.

  • Das Paradies und die Peri

    BBC Proms
    Aug 2023

    • Stealing the spangled show, however, was Lucy Crowe’s Peri. Her aerial, agile soprano was somehow both totally assured and deeply vulnerable as the outcast spirit who offers to heaven first a freedom-fighter’s heroism, then a lover’s deathbed sacrifice, before a repentant sinner’s tear finally wins the stamp on her celestial passport. With a spellbinding upper register and winning poise and lustre across her range, she managed to make this creature of Romantic fantasy credible and moving.

    • Lucy Crowe made an immediate impression with the radiance of her singing as the Peri, full of human feeling (despite her semi-supernatural ancestry).

    • Lucy Crowe was a radiant Peri, her light lyric soprano eminently suitable to the ‘innocence’ of the role. She convincingly conveyed both the more folk-like and operatic qualities of the vocal writing and her transformation from despair to triumph and transfiguration at the close – a wonderfully glowing high C – was brilliantly delivered.

    • ...it was Lucy Crowe who stood as the first among equals as she gave a suitably multifaceted performance as the Peri. Combining sensitivity with precision, she shaped her lines to perfection and, in the process, made us feel every step of the Peri’s long and arduous journey towards Paradise.

    • Heading the excellent line-up of soloists... was the soprano Lucy Crowe. Exquisite as the winged heroine, her pure soprano took us heavenwards with dazzling high notes until we arrived at paradise itself.

  • Handel Alexander's Feast

    London Handel Festival, St George's Hannover Square
    Feb 2023

    • Lucy Crowe was simply a class act. With her beautiful soprano being so accomplished, her sound could glisten on the surface even while there was so much else going on within it. The moment at which she described the burning of Persepolis with an unnerving sweetness and serenity marked out the brilliance of her own performance, as well as that of Handel’s writing to set up such paradoxes in the first place.

    • Few sopranos deliver Handel’s texts as poignantly as Lucy Crowe does.

  • Handel Alcina

    Palais Montcalm Quebec
    Feb 2023

    • [...] alors que la stupéfiante Lucy Crowe fut lunaire en Morgana, avec des aigus filés, des attaques improbables, jouant avec sa voix comme une funambule. The stunning Lucy Crowe was stellar as Morgana, with finely woven high notes, amazing articulations, playing with her voice like a tightrope walker.

  • Handel Messiah

    Coventry Cathedral
    Nov 2022

    • Lucy Crowe, replacing the originally-intended soprano Lisette Oropesa, and who opened the second section of the first part, has a beautiful purity of voice (‘And lo, the angel of the Lord’). How her voice soared, too, in ‘Rejoice greatly’; Crowe’s ornamentation, too, was perfectly judged.

    • Lucy Crowe stepped in, [...] and her diamond-glint soprano soon came into focus.

  • Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the Proms

    Royal Albert Hall
    Sep 2022

    • Soprano Lucy Crowe possesses a voice of rare beauty and depth – able to float ravishing pianissimos, yet able to ride the climaxes without ever having to push her voice. She made her mark in the opening Kyrie and went on to sing out thrillingly in the Santus – her ‘Pleni sunt caeli’ launching the fugue confidently and with breathtaking ease.

    • Lucy Crowe sailed effortlessly across the massed musicians. She gleamed in the Christe eleison, in which the soloists’ melismas were expressive and impassioned, and her sustained high notes in the Benedictus were beautifully clean and legato.

    • The wondrous Lucy Crowe always has a special glow in the upper register; in this space, it sounded supernaturally luminous.

    • Above it all the soprano soloist Lucy Crowe soared, vibrant and with impeccable intonation.

  • Mozart Die Zauberflöte

    Gran Teatre del Liceu
    Jun 2022

    • la absoluta triunfadora de la noche fue la Pamina de Lucy Crowe. The absolute triumph of the night was Lucy Crowe's Pamina.

    • es una intérprete de gusto exquisito, capaz de frasear con un sentimiento y una elegancia realmente genuinos, como quedó manifiesto en su hermosa recreación de 'Ach, Ich fühl´s'. She is a performer of exquisite taste, capable of phrasing with truly genuine feeling and elegance, as manifested in her beautiful recreation of 'Ach, Ich fühl´s'.

    • Lucy Crowe es una experta en el papel y nos ofreció una Pamina extraordinaria. Comparada con ocasiones anteriores, sorprende gratamente comprobar cómo ha mejorado en potencia, emisión y firmeza, sin perder elegancia. Pero su interpretación está basada en una profunda teatralidad. Su “Ach, ich fühl's” se edifica desde el suspiro y el lamento y se yergue a través de un fraseo ejemplar. Lucy Crowe is an expert on paper and she offered us an extraordinary Pamina. It is pleasantly surprising to see how her voice has matured to gain power and impact, without losing elegance. But her interpretation is based on a deep theatricality. Her “Ach, ich fühl's” is built from a heartfelt sigh and continues with exemplary phrasing.

  • Handel Serse

    Carnegie Hall
    May 2022

    • Crowe's tonal shine astounds, and she has the pitch control to pull off straight tone effects other singers might leave on the rehearsal room floor. Crowe also showed the emotional sensitivity to shade Romilda's resigned, defiant six-time utterance ("L'amerò") to the predatory Serse six different ways'.

      • David Shengold, Opera News
      • 08 May 2022

    • The show’s star was undoubtedly Crowe, who tuned the color of her soprano to the music at hand. She summoned lovely, pastel tone and lambent high notes for “Nè men con l’ombre” and turned the brief but crucial duet “L’amerete?” into a fully realized scene. Clean attacks, silky legato and enchanting trills are at her disposal. She is a Handel singer to be heard.

    • And while articulation, and ornamental vibrato, were excellent throughout the performance, it was a resonating pleasure to hear voices like that of Crowe expand and sustain Handel’s lines. “Ombra mai fu” is followed by “O voi,” Romilda’s response to hearing Serse, and Crowe’s singing was exquisite. Her shining, pure tone was beautiful in itself, and her dynamics and rising and falling phrasing were tremendously expressive and gorgeous. Likewise, her virtuosic articulation in the fast music was thrilling in this bravura performance.

    • Soprano Lucy Crowe, a great Handel interpreter, took the role of Romilda, Serse’s obsessive love quest. Her performance was exquisite, with clean attack, skilled articulation and beautifully shaped phrasing. The few strident sounds, in her upper register, could be easily attributed to natural impulsiveness. Sung with tremendous intensity, her second act aria, “E' gelosia quella tiranna”, was one of the performance’s highlights.