Following Sarah Tynan’s acclaimed role debut singing Susanna The Marriage of Figaro at the English National Opera last season, she has been invited to make her house debut at Houston Grand Opera singing Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, at Cincinnati Opera singing Susanna, and has recently finished singing Servilia La Clemenza di Tito in concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Edward Gardner in London and New York.
Sarah studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where she was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Excellence. She appeared as Iphis in Handel’s Jephtha in the acclaimed Welsh National Opera production conducted by Paul McCreesh. She was then invited to join the English National Opera Young Singers Programme, and later an ENO Company Principal, a position she held until 2006/7.
Her operatic roles have included most recently the critically acclaimed role debut as Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Susanna The Marriage of Figaro, Tytania A Midsummer Night's Dream, Woodbird Siegfried, Iphis Jephtha, Atalanta Xerxes, Sister Constance The Carmelites, Yum-Yum Mikado, Dalinda Ariodante, Gianetta The Gondoliers, Bella Midsummer Marriage, Pretty Polly Punch and Judy, the Governess Turn of the Screw, Melanto and Fortune Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Megan in James MacMillan's new opera The Sacrifice for Welsh National Opera, title role The Cunning Little Vixen under Sir Charles Mackerras, Zerlina Don Giovanni under Sir Colin Davis, Drusilla L'incoronazione di Poppea and Feu/Rossignol L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. Sarah has also recorded Elvira The Italian Girl, the Dew Fairy Hansel and Gretel, Barbarina The Marriage of Figaro, Sister Constance The Carmelites for Chandos Records.
Among her busy concert engagements Sarah recently sang Haydn’s Creation with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on tour, Jephtha at the London Handel Festival and made her BBC Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis. She sang in a semi staged performance of The Pilgrim’s Progress with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Richard Hickox, Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Sir Roger Norrington at the Spitalfields Festival, Mahler Symphony No.2 with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden, Messiah with the Hallé Orchestra and a tour of China with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thierry Fischer, the Academy of Ancient Music, and at the Brighton Festival.
Forthcoming engagements include Susanna for Cincinnati Opera under Sir Roger Norrington, her debut at the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore under Ingo Metzmacher, Dalinda Ariodante Opera de Oviedo, Adina L’elisir d’amore and Ilia Idomeneo for ENO, Carmina Burana at the Royal Albert Hall, and Berlioz Nuits d’ete with the Manchester Camerata under Douglas Boyd.
Sarah Tynan is represented by Intermusica.
June 2009 / 448 words. Not to be altered without permission. Please destroy all previous biographical material.