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Irish soprano Ailish Tynan won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Ailish was a member of the prestigious Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Ballet & Opera and a BBC New Generation Artist, where she recorded and performed prolifically with the BBC orchestras and in recital.
In the current season she makes her long awaited return to both English National Opera and Glyndebourne, firstly as Governess in Isabella Bywater’s new production of The Turn of the Screw as part of ENO’s London season, ending the season as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Glyndebourne. She also performs Christine in the world premiere of Festen by Mark-Anthony Turnage for the Royal Ballet & Opera. Concerts include Handel Messiah at the National Concert Hall; and Orff Carmina Burana at the Royal Festival Hall.
Ailish has established herself with operatic roles including Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (Royal Ballet & Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera); Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte, Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madame Cortese Il viaggio a Reims, Madame Podtotshina’s Daughter The Nose (Royal Ballet & Opera); Mimì La bohème, Zemfira Aleko; Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen (Grange Park Opera); Tigrane Radamisto (English National Opera); Papagena Die Zauberflöte (Teatro alla Scala, Royal Ballet & Opera); Despina Così fan tutte (Garsington Opera, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse); Héro Béatrice et Bénédict (Houston Grand Opera, Opéra Comique, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg); Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Nannetta Falstaff, Atalanta Xerxes (Royal Swedish Opera); and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring (Opéra Comique, Opéra de Rouen).
Among her notable concert appearances are Mahler Symphony No.8 (Gergiev/London Symphony Orchestra, Albrecht/Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, P.Järvi/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maazel/Philharmonia, Pappano/Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia); Mahler Symphony No.4 (van Steen/Prague Symphony Orchestra, Elder/The Hallé); Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Chung/Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bihlmaier/Irish National Symphony Orchestra); Verdi Requiem (Hofstetter/Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele); Haydn The Creation (Nelsons/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra); Handel Messiah (Egarr/Academy of Ancient Music); and Handel Iris Semele, Clori Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (Bicket/The English Concert. She has appeared at both first and last night of the BBC Proms with highlights including Bella A Midsummer Marriage (Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano (K.Karabits/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra).
Ailish is a passionate recitalist and works regularly with pianists including Iain Burnside, James Baillieu and Graham Johnson and Simon Lepper, giving recitals at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh, City of London, Gregynog, St. Magnus, Brighton and West Cork Music Festivals, the Vinterfespill, and for the Prince of Monaco at the Irish Embassy in Paris. She performed the world premiere of Nuit d’Afrique written for her by Judith Weir, at Wigmore Hall.
Her numerous recordings include Fauré Mélodies, Nacht und Träume and An Irish Songbook with pianist Iain Burnside; Handel Messiah (Academy of Ancient Music); and Mahler Symphony No.8 (Gergiev/LSO, Maazel/Philharmonia Orchestra). For the BBC Ailish has presented several episodes of Saturday Classics and has appeared on Proms Extra as a TV pundit. Additionally, she has been a Jury member for the Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and Wigmore Hall Song Competition.
The Governess / The Turn of the Screw / English National Opera / 2024
“… Ailish Tynan is superb as the Governess… The concept is ingeniously thought through, but would seem a little contrived and cerebral if it weren’t for the passion injected by outstanding individual performances. Ailish Tynan has done nothing better than this… fretful yet ethereally sung portrayal…”
(The Times)
“…Ailish Tynan as the Governess, 30 years into her hospitalization, and the soprano’s multi-layered performance was quite devastating as her fractured mind tried to make sense of both her past and her present… this was as musically distinguished a Screw as one could hope to hear.”
(Opera)
“…a stellar reading of the Governess by Ailish Tynan…”
(The Observer)
“Best and most important of all, Ailish Tynan sings the governess with an, at times, ravishing purity. It is the vocal performance that Bywater’s approach requires, alluring and fascinating…”
(The Guardian)
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Clori / Clori, Tirsi e Fileno / The English Concert at Wigmore Hall / 2023
“Ailish Tynan relished Clori’s capriciousness, teasing her suitors shamelessly but using a wide range of vocal hues and the deep richness of her soprano to reveal the shepherdess’s alternating poses of nonchalance, sympathy and resentment… [she] made a masterclass of dramatic singing – flexible, florid, fiery.”
(Opera Today)
“Clori (beguilingly and beautifully sung by the Irish soprano Ailish Tynan)… [her] portrayal of the coquettish, inconstant Clori could not be bettered.”
(Seen & Heard International)
Berta / Il barbiere di Siviglia / Royal Ballet & Opera / 2023
“It’s Ailish Tynan as Berta, his browbeaten maid, who shows how it should be done…”
(The Guardian)
“Ailish Tynan’s thrillingly sung Berta”
(MusicOMH)
“This perfect cast was further enhanced by a delightful performance by Irish soprano Ailish Tynan in the role of the maid Berta. The part is very small but Rossini rewards her with one very amusing solo which Tynan performed with great style.”
(The Express)
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