{{short description|British tenor}} {{About||the American soldier|Edward E. Lyon|other people with similar names|Edward Lyons (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=February 2020}}
'''Ed Lyon''' is a British tenor.<ref name=timeout>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/ed-lyon-interview|title=Ed Lyon Interview|work=Time Out|date=19 July 2012|access-date=24 February 2015|archive-date=24 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724093305/https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/ed-lyon-interview|url-status=dead}}</ref> Though known primarily for singing in baroque operas and oratorios, Lyon has also sung roles in operas by composers from Mozart and Haydn to Stravinsky and Britten.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/02/opera-translation-mastersingers-nuremberg-ormindo|title=Topped in translation: two new London operas make a case for English-language productions|author=Alexandra Coghlan|date=10 February 2015|quote=Ed Lyon and Samuel Boden reprise their roles as rival lovers – two young tenors with personality to match fine voices|work=New Statesman}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|quote=Ed Lyon, also currently appearing in L’Ormindo at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, is a superb Steersman who alongside revealing an excellent tenor voice throws himself more completely than most into the drunken revelries (and in this production splashing) in Act III.|url=http://www.musicomh.com/classical/reviews-classical/der-fliegende-hollander-royal-opera-house-london-2|title=Der fliegende Holländer @ Royal Opera House, London|work=musicOMH|date=7 February 2015|author=Sam Smith}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/der-fliegende-hollnder-royal-opera-house-review-an-immersive-and-immersing-experience-10036127.html|title=Der fliegende Holländer, Royal Opera House, review: An immersive and immersing experience|quote=the contributions of Ed Lyon as the Steersman and Catherine Wyn-Rogers as Mary were outstanding|work=The Independent|author=Jessica Duchen|author-link=Jessica Duchen|date=10 February 2015}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Lyon comes from Yorkshire and attended Harrow School. He then studied history of art at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, before training as a singer at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio.
==Career== Within the United Kingdom, Ed Lyon has appeared for five of the country's six main opera companies. His roles on the main stage of the Royal Opera House include Lysander in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Pane in ''La Calisto'', Hylas in ''Les Troyens''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/arts/music/les-troyens-at-the-royal-opera-house-in-london.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=Love Lies in Carthage, but Duty Calls in Rome in Berlioz's 5-Act Epic|author=Anthony Tommasini|date=26 June 2012|work=New York Times Music}}</ref> and dancing master in ''Ariadne auf Naxos''.<ref>[http://www.roh.org.uk/people/ed-lyon Biography] on Royal Opera House website</ref> For Opera North, Lyon has sung Tamino in ''Die Zauberflöte'', whilst appearances for Glyndebourne include Hippolyte in Rameau's ''Hippolyte et Aricie'' as well as various roles in Purcell's ''The Fairy-Queen''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grovesartists.com/artist/ed-lyon/|title=Ed Lyon|website=Groves Artists|accessdate=21 July 2020}}</ref> Lyon has also sung Telemaco in ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' for Welsh National Opera and Don Ottavio in ''Don Giovanni'' for Scottish Opera.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/10382837/Don-Giovanni-Theatre-Royal-Glasgow-review.html|title=Don Giovanni, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, review|author=Rupert Christiansen|date=16 October 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> He returned to Scottish Opera in February 2016 to sing Lurcanio in Handel's ''Ariodante''. At Garsington Opera he sung the title role in Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' in 2022.<ref>https://garsingtonopera.org/whats-on/orfeo/</ref>
Outside the UK, Lyon has sung for opera companies and at theatres including the Bavarian State Opera, the Dutch National Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra de Lille, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Aix-en-Provence Festival<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Lyon-Ed.htm|title=Ed Lyon (Tenor) - Short Biography|website=Bach-cantatas.com|accessdate=21 July 2020}}</ref> and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, next to Shakespeare's Globe.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/10724090/LOrmindo-Royal-OperaShakespeares-Globe-review.html|title=L'Ormindo, Royal Opera/Shakespeare's Globe, review|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 March 2014|author=Rupert Christiansen|quote=Ed Lyon displayed the appropriate machismo as the bumptious Amidas}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/29/ormindo-nash-ensemble-belcea-quartet-review|title=L'Ormindo; Nash Ensemble; Belcea Quartet – review|work=The Observer|author=Fiona Maddocks|authorlink=Fiona Maddocks|date=30 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/04/tiny-candlelit-and-intimate-l-ormindo-sam-wanamaker-playhouse|title=Tiny, candlelit and intimate: L'Ormindo at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse|author=Alexandra Coughlan|date=11 April 2014|work=New Statesman}}</ref>
Also active as a concert singer, Lyon's repertoire includes oratorios such as Handel's ''Messiah'' and Elgar's ''The Dream of Gerontius'', as well as Latin-language religious music like Bach's Mass in B minor and Mozart's Requiem.
==Personal life== Lyon is gay<ref name="timeout"/> and has a keen interest in pet dogs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyfvlPYQsE|title=YouTube interview|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=21 July 2020}}</ref>
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