Introduction
Lydia Teuscher was born in Freiburg, Germany, and studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim.
Highlights in her 2020/21 season include Ifigenia in Handel’s Oreste on tour with Il Pomo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev, Caliste in Telemann’s Pastorelle en Musique in the Schlosstheater Neues Palais Potsdam and Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth with Ensemble 1700/Dorothee Oberlinger, Mozart’s Requiem with the Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa, Bach’s Matthäus Passion with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra/Aapo Häkkinen and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya/Jan Willem de Vried.
In opera, Lydia has sung Pamina Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Mozartwoche, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Bolshoi, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin; Susanna Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival, Dresdner Semperoper, Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan; Ännchen Der Freischütz for the Opernhaus Zurich; Hero Béatrice et Bénédict at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan; Zerlina Don Giovanni for the Bolshoi and Gretel Hänsel und Gretel for the Glyndebourne Festival, Dresdner Semperoper and Saito Kinen Festival.