Sarah Tynan
Recently nominated by the Evening Standard as one of the most influential artists in the UK, British soprano Sarah Tynan is well established as one of the most exciting and versatile singers of her generation.
“Tynan’s extraordinarily intrepid performance surely crosses into realms where no opera singer has gone before.”
– Richard Morrison, The Times
Pamina at ENO 2024
Sarah Tynan led an excellent cast as a believable, dramatically alert Pamina, her elegant soprano cutting through orchestral textures like a switchblade.
– Clive Paget, The Guardian
But here the emotional moments hit their mark, particularly when Sarah Tynan’s Pamina sings “Now my joy has gone for ever” with such poise and profound beauty.
– Rebecca Franks, The Times
Sarah Tynan, formerly an ENO Harewood Artist on the company’s young artist development programme, is a bold, touching Pamina. Her voice inhabits the music’s emotional content ideally, notably in her mesmerising aria in the second act.
– Jessica Duchan, The Independent
7 Deaths of Maria Callas at ENO 2024
…the exquisite vulnerability of soprano Sarah Tynan’s heart-stopping performance.
– Jessica Duchan, The Independent
Soprano Sarah Tynan sings Donizetti’s Lucia with a thrilling range of expression and lace-fine diminuendoes.
– Claudia Pritchard, Culture Whisper
Sarah Tynan excelled in the Donizetti Lucia excerpt ‘Il dolce suono’ and ‘Ardon gli incensi’… Tynan offered an amazing sound.
– Colin Clarke, Seen and Heard International
Pat Nixon at Teatro Real, Madrid 2023
Pero si tenemos que hablar de vocalidad operística por excelencia, es obligado citar a Sarah Tynan en su papel de Pat Nixon.
(But if we have to talk about operatic vocalism par excellence, one must quote Sarah Tynan in her role as Pat Nixon).
– Jorge Fernández Guerra, El País
Sarah Tynan’s soprano was sweet and appealing, while still portraying her character’s inner steel.
– David Karlin, Bach Track
Soprano Sarah Tynan impressed as Pat Nixon, particularly in her great scene that opens Act II
– Jose Irurzun, Seen and Heard International
Sarah is well established as one of the most exciting and versatile singers of her generation. With a wide range of repertoire from Baroque to Contemporary, Bel Canto to Music Theatre, she has worked regularly with many of the leading opera companies, orchestras and ensembles throughout the UK, Europe and around the world and was included in the Evening Standard’s list of the UK’s most influential artists.
She has performed over 60 principal operatic roles with notable performances including Handel’s Cleopatra, Semele, Romilda, Merab and Ginevra, Mozart’s Elvira, Pamina, Susanna, Despina, Zerlina and Ilia, Britten’s Governess and Tytania, Henze’s Manon, Adams’ Pat Nixon, Lehar’s Hannah Glawari, both Gluck and Glass’s Euridice, Strauss’s Sophie, three world premieres -Hari in Dai Fujikura’s Solaris, Sharon Disney in Philip Glass’s The Perfect American and Megan in James MacMillan’s The Sacrifice, Beethoven’s Marzellina, Rossini’s Rosina and Fiorilla, and Donizetti’s Adina and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Equally in demand in concert repertoire, performances include Brahms and Mozart Requiem, Carmina Burana, Mahler Symphony 2, 4, and 8, Haydn’s Creation, Bach Matthew and John Passions, Poulenc Stabat Mater, A Child of Our Time, Wigglesworth AugenLieder, Unsuk Chin’s Kala, Dallapiccola’s Partita, Handel’s Messiah, Solomon, Saul, Beethoven Symphony 9 and Britten’s Les Illuminations, with BBCSO, BBCPhil, CBSO, LPO, LSO, RPO, BBCNOW, Philharmonia, Gabrieli Consort, The Sixteen, Bach Choir, Mostly Mozart Festival Lincoln Centre, Bergen Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Maggio Musicale, Aldeburgh Festival, Edinburgh Festival and at the Proms.
Sarah is also a passionate educator. She has run her own private studio for many years and before joining Guildhall taught for 4 years at Royal College of Music.
A full biography can be found here
Sarah is represented worldwide by Helen Hogh at Groves Artists
