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Scottish mezzo soprano Lauren Young is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) Alexander Gibson Opera School and an inaugural studio artist at the Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence. She is also a Britten Pears Young Artist and recipient of an Independent Opera Voice Scholarship and Fellowship. Earlier this year she was a semi-finalist in the 42nd Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.
In the current season she performs Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia (Longborough Festival Opera); Annie in R&D workshops of Displaced: A Woolwich Arsenal Opera (coalign); and covers Maddalena in Jonathan Miller’s production of Rigoletto (English National Opera).
Among her recent highlights are Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress, Tisbe La Cenerentola, Mathilde Ottone (English Touring Opera); Daughter 6 Akhnaten (English National Opera); Mezzo The F*ggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Ruhrtriennale Festival); Vana Zonnendanz Donizetti’s Viva la Diva (Buxton International Festival); Witch Hansel and Gretel (British Youth Opera/Silent Opera); and Charlotte Act 3 Werther, Filipyevna Act 1, Scene 1 Eugene Onegin (Mascarade Opera Studio/Teatro la Fenice).
Her other operatic roles include Erste Mägde Elektra, Flosshilde Das Rheingold (Edinburgh Players Opera Group); Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia, Sorceress Dido and Aeneas, Jade Boucher Dead Man Walking (UK Staged Premiere); Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro; Madame de Croissy Dialogues des Carmélites (RCS). She has also covered Rita The Handmaid’s Tale, Rossweisse The Valkyrie, cover Mrs. Alexander Satyagraha (English National Opera); Angelina La Cenerentola (British Youth Opera); and Zita Gianni Schicchi (RCS).
Recent concert highlights have included A Charm of Lullabies with Malcolm Martineu as part of the Britten Pears Arts Britten Song Weekend and Das Lied von der Erde with Nicholas Daniels and the Irion Orchestra. Other concert repertoire include Verdi Requiem, Duruflé Requiem, Bach B Minor Mass, Magnificat and St. John Passion, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Mozart Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater.
A keen interpreter of song, Lauren has a special performing relationship with Spanish pianist and répétiteur José Javier Ucendo. As a duo, they won the Elgar-Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize (RCS), and were finalists in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, they also appeared as young artists as the Leeds Lieder Festival. Lauren also performed as part of the Independent Opera Scholar’s Recital at Wigmore Hall and the Opera In Song series at Opera Holland Park.
Baba the Turk / The Rake’s Progress / English Touring Opera / 2024
“Lauren Young’s splendidly characterised Baba…”
(The Times)
“Young, meanwhile, makes a really fine Baba, funny, self-assured, tellingly compassionate beneath the self-dramatisation.”
(The Guardian)
“Lauren Young brings vocal glamour and bags of pizzazz to bearded lady Baba The Turk.”
(The Stage)
“Lauren Young as a luxuriantly bearded Baba the Turk, whose late scene with Fikret was both beautifully sung and touching in its shared emotions…”
(Opera)
Clorinda / La Cenerentola / English Touring Opera / 2023
“Cinderella’s sisters were brilliantly cast with Nazan Fikret (Clorinda) and Lauren Young (Tisbe), fully deserving the duet from Semiramide (!)”
(Opera)
“Nazan Fikret and Lauren Young are a well-matched duo as the stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe, singing with gleaming polish…”
(The Times)
“Fikret and Young gave wonderfully engaging performances… [they] made a terrific double act, and whenever they were on stage their presence was felt.”
(Planet Hugill)
“As the corseted and cossetted Tisbe and Clorinda, Lauren Young and Nazan Fikret, respectively, relished their ghastliness and delivered it which a high gloss finish.”
(Opera Today)
30 Oct | 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 19, 21 Nov 2024
Verdi: Rigoletto
Conductor: Richard Farnes
Director: Jonathan Miller
8, 15, 29 Jun | 5, 6, 12, 13 Jul 2025
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Conductor: Elaine Kelly
Director: Louise Bakker
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